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Allison Adelle Hedge Coke descends from moundbuilders and is of Cherokee, Creek, Huron, Metis, French Canadian, Lorraine, Portuguese, Irish, English, and Scot ascendants. Raised in North Carolina, the Plains and Canada, she previously worked horses, fields, waters, and factories. A fellow of the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, Black Earth Institute (emeritus), Salon Ada, and The Center for Great Plains Institute.dg nanouk okpik is an Alaskan Native, Inupiat — Inuit from Anchorage, Alaska. She is a Cook Inlet Region, Inc. shareholder as an enrolled member of federally recognized Tribe. Her family resides in Barrow, Alaska. She has served as secretary on both the American Indian Higher Education Consortium Student Congress and the Student Senate at Salish Kootenai College. dg nanouk okpik is an MFA candidate of Stonecoast, USM.Cathy Tagnak Rexford is Inupiaq, French/German and English from Anchorage, Alaska. Most of Cathy's work is inspired by the unique view of the Indigenous peoples of Northern Alaska. She has worked extensively in Native education and language efforts as researcher, curriculum developer and graphic designer. Cathy has also worked on contemporary Native theater and film projects as an actor, producer and writer.Brandy Nalani McDougall is a poet of Hawaiian, Chinese and Scottish descent from the island of Maui. An award-winning poet, she has published in journals and anthologies throughout Hawai‘i, the continental U.S. and the Pacific. Her first collection will be released in 2008. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in English from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.Mahealani Perez-Wendt (formerly Mahealani Kamauu) is of Spanish, Hawaiian, and Chinese ancestry. She attended Kalaheo Elementary, Royal Elementary and Central Intermediate Schools, graduating from Kamehameha School for Girls in 1965. She earned a BA in political science and graduate certificate in public administration from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. In 1993, she received the Cades Literary Award. Her first book, Uluhaimalama was published in 2008.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsEditor’s NoteIn the time of Okvikd g nanouk okpikMask of DanceIn the time of OkvikFoistNinilchikDate: Post GlacialLittle Brother and Serpent SednaSinnaktuqThere and HereCell BlockThe Pact with SednaUtkiavik: a Place for Hunting OwlsOil is a PeopleCorpse WhalePalpate VoicesFor-the-Spirits-Who-have-Rounded-the-Bend iivaqsaatSpirit WorldBlack IceCathy Tagnak RexfordLuis Gonzalez Palma Never Took a Picture HereBaleen Scrimshaw as 16 mm FilmInuit PrintKinetoscopeThe NegativeThe Ecology of SubsistenceWhen Ivory Changes Color from the Oils in Your SkinPre-GunpowderHereWith a WestwindUncle FootBaleen CorsetA Caribou Skin MaskScripture According to SilaMigrationBridge PassageWhat is Not SilenceA Wind Drives Over the WatersBlack IceReturn to the Kula HouseBrandy Nalani McDougallPoHuaka’iHaloa NakaHaumeaKumuhonuaThe History of This PlaceThe Petroglyphs at OlowaluLei Niho PalaoaEmma, 1993On Finding My Father’s First Essay, San Joaquin Delta College, 1987How I Learned to Write My NameMa’alaea Harbor, Father’s DayThe Salt-Wind of Waihe’eThe Dream Of Kaha’ulaTurns of Light, the Story of Your BirthDirty LaundryKoa and the Burning of the Kula HouseEasterReturn to the Kula HouseCane SpiderBack When We Lived with GhostsKukuiWaiting for the Sunrise at Haleakal?Red Hibiscus in the RainSynaptic CollisionsHo’ailonaKa ‘OleloOver and Over the Return, Mo’oku’auhauPapatuanukuPapahanaumokuMa’healani Perez-WendtPapahanaumokuSegmentedKalalaniBury Our Hearts at Wal-Mart, etc.Double DeckerWe Are Not the Crime We Are the EvidenceUprootingCalvary At ‘Anaeho’omaluNancy KwanAnna at a CrossroadsHuluhulu BagKipahuluNo StealMaile Never MissOblong MoonBiographical Notes