kisiskâciwan

Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber is from oskana kâ-asastêki and is an associate professor of Indigenous literatures at First Nations University of Canada in Regina. He is the editor of kisiskâciwan: Indigenous Voices from Where the River Flows Swiftly and the writer and producer of the Making Treaty 4 performance project.

Winner, Saskatchewan Book Award for Indigenous Peoples' Writing, 2019

• Preface Introduction Saukamappee (Young Man) Cree • c. 1700–1793 Life Among the Peigans James Settee Swampy Cree • c. 1809–1902 An Indian Camp at the Mouth of Nelson River Hudson’s Bay Wars between the Sioux and Saulteaux Charles Pratt Cree-Assiniboine • 1816–1888 CMS catechist meets Cha-wa-cis, Saulteaux Medicine Man k?-kiš?w? (Loud Voice) Plains Cree • c. 1796–1884 Speeches at Treaty Four (Morris) atakawinin (The Gambler) Saulteaux • c. 1842–1916 Speeches at Treaty Four (Morris) kamooses Plains Cree • c. 18??–?? Speeches at Treaty Four (Morris) mistaw?sis (Big Child) Plains Cree • c. 1813–1903 Speech at Treaty Six (Morris) Speech at Treaty Six (Erasmus) at?hkakohp (Star Blanket) Plains Cree • c. 1816–1896 Speeches at Treaty Six (Morris) Speech at Treaty Six (Erasmus) payipw?t Plains Cree (Sioux) • c. 1816–1908 To the Superior-General Defending the Sundance Response to Offer of Baptism w?hkasko-kis?yin (Sweet Grass) Plains Cree • 18?? –1877 Messages from the Cree Chiefs of the Plains Speech at Treaty Six (Morris) mistahi-maskwa (Big Bear) Plains Cree • c. 1825–1888 To Rev. George McDougall Speeches at Treaty Six (Morris) Speech at the Council of Duck Lake Letter to Sergeant Martin, N.W.M.P. Address to the Court k?-miy?staw?sit (Beardy) Willow Cree • c. 1828–1889 Speeches at Treaty Six Special Meeting (Morris) w?wikanihk k?-ot?mahoht (Strikes Him On The Back) Cree • 1830–1884 Speech at Treaty Six NegotiationsBecome Farmers tatanka iyotake (Sitting Bull) Lakota • c. 1831–1890 Arriving at Wood Mountain To the American Commissioners To Major Walsh peopeo kiskiok hihih (White Bird) Nez Percé • 18??–1892 The Nez Percé War Gabriel Dumont Métis • 1837–1906 Batoche The Fourth Day p?htikwah?napiwiyin (Poundmaker) Plains Cree • c. 1842–1886 Speeches at Treaty Six (Morris) Letter to Riel Letter to Middleton Address to the Court Louis Riel Métis • 1844–1885 Message to the Métis of Battleford Revolutionary Bill of Rights Palpite! ô mon esprit! Shudder, My Spirit Margaret: be fair and good Robert Gordon! k?-pap?mahcahkw?w (Wandering Spirit) Plains Cree • 1845–1885 Council Speech Speech to Warriors ac?hkosa k?-otakohpit (Star Blanket) Plains Cree • c. 1845–1917 Letter to Governor General k?-miyo-k?sikw?w (Fine Day) Plains Cree • c. 1847–1941 Song for Returning Warriors Big Bear’s Last Thirst Dance The First Person piy?siw-aw?sis (Thunderchild) Plains Cree • 1849–1927 A Winter of Hardship A Fight with the Sarcee The Sun Dance Sacred Stories Of The Sweet Grass Cree n?h-namiskw?k?paw (Louis Moosomin) The Birth of Wisahketchahk and the Origin of Mankind Burnt-Stick k?-k?sik?w-p?htuk?w (Coming-Day) The Shut-Eye Dancers k?-w?hkaskusahk (Maggie Achenam) Thunderbird and Winter Hell-Diver The Foolish Maiden Plains Cree Texts n?h-namiskw?k?paw (Louis Moosomin) Ancient Life. The Sun-Dance k?-k?sik?w-p?htuk?w (Coming-Day) How Sweet-Grass Became Chief A Great Herd A Buffalo in Human Form k?-w?hkaskusahk (Maggie Achenam) How Women Were Treated How the Blackfoot Killed Their Wives Abel Watetch Cree • c. 1878–1964 The Meaning of the Rain Dance Edward Ahenakew Cree • 1885–1961 That Fatal Day at Frog Lake (No. 5) Michel Benjamin Dene • 1888–19?? The Story of Thanadelthur Charlie Janvier Dene • 1889–1984 A Man and a Wolf Charles Ryder Nakoda • 1889–19?? The Pipe of Peace A Bear Story Peter Vandall Plains Cree • 1899–1985 Social Control Marie Merasty Woods Cree • c. 1900s–1983 The Wetiko Mother A Race for Life The Last Laugh Experience as a Medium Eleanor Brass Cree-Saulteaux • 1905–1992 Medicine Boy Legend of Qu’Appelle Excerpt from I Walk in Two Worlds nêhiyaw (Glecia Bear) Cree • 1912–1998 Lost and Found John F. Cote Saulteaux • 1912–1999 N?napohš and the Shut-eye Dancing Ducks N?napohš Makes Red Willows Alice Ahenakew Plains Cree • 1912–2007 The Priest’s Bear Medicine Bertha O’Watch Nakoda • 1914–2012 Big Snake ?któmi and Fox Arsene Fontaine Dene • 1918–1993 The Story of the Bear Howard Adams Métis • 1921–2001 Excerpt from Prison of Grass Annie Benonie Dene • 1925–2011 A Person That Always Stays Alone George Klyne Métis • 1925–2015 The Trapper and the Snare Alexander Wolfe Saulteaux • 1927–2002 The Sound of Dancing Jim Kâ-Nîpitêhtêw Plains Cree • 19??–1996 The Pipestem and the Making of Treaty Six Augie Merasty Woods Cree • 1930–2017 Excerpts from The Education of Augie Merasty br/> Helen Francis Métis • b. 1931 Life on the Trapline Bombardier Herbert Walker Nakoda • 1931–2012 Mink and Coyote Freda Ahenakew Plains Cree • 1932–2011 Excerpt from kinêhiyâwiwininaw nêhiyawêwin Hubert Gunn Saulteaux • 1933–1995 A Lamp to Read By Vicki Wilson Dakota-Cree It was to me like we had lost our childhood You’d be exposing yourself Bernelda Wheeler Cree-Nakoda-Saulteaux • 1937–2005 Our Beloved Land and You Maria Campbell Métis • b. 1940 Jacob Buffy Sainte-Marie Plains Cree • b. 1941 Now That the Buffalo’s Gone My Country ’Tis of Thy People You’re Dying Gloria Mehlmann Cree-Saulteaux Pin Cherry Morning Doug Cuthand Cree • b. 1946 On Canada Day, Remember That Canada Was Built on the Treaties Is 125 Years Such a Long Time? An Indian University: Why Not? Margaret Reynolds Dene • b. 1947 The Snow Man The One Who CrossedCrowhead Tom Jackson Cree • b. 1948 Blue Water Vacation Elder Priscilla Settee Cree • b. 1948 Introduction to The Strength of Women Beth Cuthand Cree • b. 1949 Were You There For All the Settlers Who Secretly Sing Blair Stonechild Cree-Saulteaux • b. 1950 Excerpt from The New Buffalo Rita Bouvier Métis • b. 1951 Running Dream bannock and oranges Riel is dead, and I am alive songs to sing little lemon yellow sailboat SkyBlue Mary Morin Métis-Cree • b. 1951 As You Lie Sleeping Legacy of Residential Schools Jo-Ann Episkenew Métis • 1952–2016 Excerpt from Taking Back Our Spirits Erroll Kinistino Cree • b. 1952 Kokom’s Kaddillac Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe Cree • b. 1953 Crying for Voice N?hkom, Medicine Bear Der Poop Excerpt from Blue Marrow tipiyaw?wis?w—ownership of one’s self ?nisk?st?w—connecting John Cuthand Plains Cree • b. 1953 Naska The Search for Chief Lucky Man Solomon Ratt Woods Cree • b. 1954 Grandmother’s Bay Buffalo Wings Janice Acoose Saulteaux • b. 1954 Paul Acoose: Man Standing Above Ground Joseph Naytowhow Plains-Woodland Cree Subtle Energy as Seen through the Eyes of a Nêhiyo (Cree Person) Kim Soo Goodtrack Lakota • b. 1955 Joe Flyingby’s Tape Recorded History Harold Johnson Cree • b. 1957 Excerpts from Charlie Muskrat Bevann Fox Cree • b. 1958 Excerpts from Abstract Love Paul Seesequasis Cree-Dakota-Ukrainian-German • b. 1958 Republic of Tricksterism Winona Wheeler Cree-Nakoda-Saulteaux-English-Irish • b. 1958 Calling Badger and the Symbols of the Spirit Language Connie Fife Cree • 1961–2017 i have become so many mountains the knowing Berries and Ripened Poems Yvette Nolan Algonquin-Irish • b. 1961 Excerpts from Medicine Shows Ernie Louttit Cree • b. 1961 Excerpts from “Young Man Frozen” James Tyman Métis • 1963–2001 Excerpts from Inside Out Carol Daniels Cree-Chipewyan • b. 1963 Lori Floyd Favel Starr Plains Cree • b. 1964 Master of the Dew Gregory Scofield Cree-Scottish-English-French • b. 1966 Not All Halfbreed Mothers I’ve Been Told Women Who Forgot the Taste of Limes The Sewing Circle Gabriel’s Letter Warren Cariou Métis • b. 1966 An Athabasca Story Satan Rouses his Legions on the Shores of Syncrude Tailings Pond #4 Louis Speaks to Gabriel Through the Ground Randy Lundy Cree-Irish-Norwegian • b. 1967 deer-sleep Bear For Kohkum, Reta Son Creation Story Joely BigEagle-Kequahtooway Nakoda-Cree • b. 1969 Obsidian Stone Wiya Andrea Menard Métis • b. 1971 The Halfbreed Blues Lift Jesse Archibald-Barber Métis-Cree-Scottish-German • b. 1972 The Bowl Game Lisa Bird-Wilson Métis Blood Memory Merelda Fiddler Métis • b. 1976 Powerful Women, Powerful Stories Kevin Wesaquate Cree • b. 1977 Like a Scene from a Movie Drop a Pound on My Table, Brother That Picture in Black and White Brad Bellegarde (InfoRed) Nakoda-Cree • b. 1978 Running from Existence Old Wood Bridge I Remember Thomas Roussin Métis • b. 1979 Cutarm Creek All Those Years of Heart (1867–1905) The Gift Mika Lafond Cree • b. 1981 sipwêtêyani – when I die itâpi – look kâ-wâpamiyin – when you see me Tenille Campbell Dene-Métis • b. 1984 love poem #98 love poem #58 love poem #7 Shannon McNabb Cree • b. 1987 Little Red School House Earthly Womb Permissions and Sources Index of Authors Index of Topics