The Crooked Good Syilx/Okanagan and Joe Starr Haisla (Kitamaat)

and Joe Starr Haisla (Kitamaat)

writer and artist

The contributors to this volume explore the implications of urbanization on the production of distinctive Indigenous identities

the establishment of residential schools and the development of reserves disrupted Nuu-chah-nulth culture notwithstanding their continuing work for self-determination today

The Crooked Good Syilx/Okanagan and Joe Starr Haisla (Kitamaat)Louise Bernice Halfe, whose Cree name is Sky Dancer, was born in Two Hills, Alberta. She was raised on the Saddle Lake Indian Reserve and attended Blue Quills Residential School. Poetic tales that unfold through the voice of kwskt, Turn Around Womantales imbued with vital themes of Indigenous experience: culture, language, colonialism, residential schools and more. The poems of The Crooked Good are threaded throughout with words, phrases and verses in