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Back to topSôhkêyihta: The Poetry of Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe (Laurier Poetry #28) (Paperback)
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"I build this story like my lair. One willow, / a rib at a time"
-- "The Crooked Good"
to construct her "lair." She also reflects on her relationship with n hiyaw win, the Cree language, and the ways in which it informs her relationships and poetics. The introduction by David Gaertner situates Halfe's writing within the history of whiteness and colonialism that works to silence and repress Indigenous voices. Gaertner pays particular attention to the ways in which Halfe addresses, incorporates, and pushes back against silence, and suggests that her work is an act of bearing witness - what Kwagiulth scholar Sarah Hunt identifies as making Indigenous lives visible.