Blood (FNCR 2023) Creation so that it might live

so that it might live out the words of its apologies

In the chapters that follow religious furnishings and appointments

a Fond du Lac Reservation elder

Âmî Osâwâpikones reminds us that we are not defined as others see us

altruistic façade and into its shadows: white supremacy

Blood (FNCR 2023) Creation so that it might liveTyler Pennock, author of Bones (2020), is a Two Spirit Queerdo from Faust, Alberta, and is a member of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation. They were adopted from a Cree and Mtis family, and reunited with them in 2006. Tyler is a graduate of Guelph University's Creative Writing MFA program (2013), as well as the University of Toronto (2009). Blood follows a Two Spirit Indigenous person as they navigate urbanity, queerness, and a kaleidoscope of dreams, memory,