This is a great collection with good representation of Indigenous peoples accross the Provinces, representation from the Territories and Inuit people would have made the collection perfect I think. The pieces are wonderful and some are so, so candid it is a enormous priviledge for the reader to know the most private thoughts and desires of the contributors.

I especially loved the contributions from Donna Beyer (An Indigenous Mother's Thériac), Sharron Proulx-Turner (The Queer House 1 & 2), and Beatrice Mosionier (Kookhoum's Story), because they spoke to me personally as a Métis Ace woman. I was saddened that Rosanna Deerchild's was a single poem, I love hearing her on Unreserved and know she has plenty of important things to say.

Richard Van Camp, Waubgeshig Rice, Lisa Bird-Wilson and so many others shared contributions that make me hungry to read more longform Indigenous fiction, which I think means that the collection works very efficiently. The collection, subtitle Colonialism in Canada, should be noted to be a celebration of perseverence and resistance rather 'torture porn,' which also speaks to the effectiveness of the collection for readers who may think that Indigenous peoples are defeated.