The Massachusetts State Flag is Insulting Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory OversightThe General Court of the Commonwealth of… Read More
Non-Fiction
Carol Dana
My Grandfather My grandfather, Sylvester Francis, used to hunt and trap in the Sunkhaze area. He also took all kinds… Read More
Adrian Downey
Book Review of Kiskajeyi – I Am Ready: A Hermeneutic Exploration of Mi’kmaq Komqwejwi’kasikl Poetry by Michelle Sylliboy (Rebel Mountain… Read More
Wendy Newell Dyer
Mother Earth Water Walk When I began walking in the Eastern portion of the Mother Earth Water Walk that began… Read More
Wendy Newell Dyer
Return to Dawnland I Am Passamaquoddy “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word… Read More
Starlit Simon
Mah & Her Misfits She embraces and understands the riff raff, the misfits, the undesirables and disreputable. Whether she’s worked… Read More
Ella Alkiewicz
My Uivak I am Inuk. My homeland is Nunatsiavut while my hometown is Amherst, Massachusetts. I have my husband and… Read More
Mohiks Eagles Fire / Tim Blanchette
Dance, Pray, Heal: Strong Medicine Content warning: alcoholism, self harm Last fall, I let my guard down in the place where… Read More
Faith Damon Davison
A Poor Little Village When I was little, we didn’t have a lot of money. I didn’t know it then… Read More
Wendy Newell Dyer
A Mother’s Wounds Content warning: gun violence “But soon my companions were lost to my sight beyond the mountain ridge… Read More
Cheryl Savageau
Wretched Tonight I’m wretched. I thought these meds were supposed to work, but I’ve been slipping into a depression, getting… Read More
Michael Snyder
Maurice Kenny was a poet of great sensitivity, imagination, and intellectual curiosity. This is fully evidenced by his last collection,… Read More
Suzanne Rancourt–Featured Writer
Writer’s Statement Some quotes like some faces are seared into one’s consciousness. One such quote was from a graduate level… Read More
Remembering Maurice Kenny
Alice Azure It was September of 2012 in Milwaukee. A group of us were packed into a van on our… Read More
Doris Seale: In Memoriam
I received the letter below, with some of Doris Seale’s poems, from Judy Dow, and reprint that material here with… Read More
Joseph Lee
The Pageant My earliest memories of the Pageant are of being embarrassed. The Pageant is an annual event my Tribe… Read More
Rachel Sayet
Wikôtamuwôk Wuci Ki tà Kihtahan (A Celebration of Land and Sea): Modern Indigenous Cuisine in New England Preface As a… Read More
Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel-Featured Writer
Kuhtôqatun/Our Story: On Being a Native Writer Our story breathes within the rocks, trees and hills of New England. It… Read More