Iskotew Iskwew / Fire Woman: Poetry of a Northern Rez Girl Grade One the Six Nations of the

the Six Nations of the Grand River blocked workers from entering a half-built housing development in southern Ontario

From plant identification and environmentally respectful collection to traditional uses and recipes

This collection includes short stories

the impact of residential schools

and a group of young men pay tribute to a friend by streaking through their northern town

Iskotew Iskwew / Fire Woman: Poetry of a Northern Rez Girl Grade One the Six Nations of the"Iskotew Iskwew Fire Woman" is a poetry collection written during a period of trauma when Francine Merasty, the author and a member of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation was working as a Counsel to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in 2017. This book is about memories and experience growing up on the Pelican Narrows Reserve in northern Saskatchewan in the 1980s: summers spent on the land and the pain of