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

and Joe Starr Haisla (Kitamaat)

and critiques the failure of Canadian constitutional traditions to recognize their significance

writer and artist

This book is illustrated by Ali Hinch

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