The Massachusetts State Flag is Insulting Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory OversightThe General Court of the Commonwealth of… Read More
Alice M. Azure
Relativity I sit at the southern position of a large circle, a council of grandmothers. They are chuckling at another… Read More
Mary Bassett
Ancestors My feet feel so cold so I keep wiggling my toes until the warmth returns. Bareheaded in the rain,… Read More
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
Rich Holschuh
T8ni Kizos Wazwasa – Winter Solstice Terraced lines shine silver,Layers upon the cross-hatched riverbanksThreads of smoke rise still and silent… Read More
Natalie Dana Lolar
In this time In this time of posted landWhere do we go…?How do we live…?No food gathered…No medicine picked…No game… Read More
Dawna Meader
Wocawson Cipenuk From the East she blows a gentle rainAnd washes away our worry and pain.Her breezes reach out and… Read More
Charlie True
Phillip at Wachusett The grating of the dried oaks of Wachusettleaf upon layered leafwould shatter the wind’s soft lilting whisperin… Read More
Carol Bachofner
Water is as essential to our collective lives as the blood pumping through our human hearts. You might correlate our… 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
Phoebe “Songbundle” Legere
Phoebe “Songbundle” Legere (Abenaki) lives in Maine and New York City. She is an internationally recognized composer and multi-disciplinary artist.
Robert Peters
Walruses On The Rings Of Saturn – I purchased a wood panel about ten years ago and asked my son… Read More
Donna Smith
“…He is said to have been the last Red Man in Acton …”
(Robert Frost)
Indigenous Editing and the Gathering Place
We have been thinking and talking a lot about Indigenous editing here at Dawnland Voices 2.0. Since 11 tribal community… Read More
Alice M. Azure–Featured Writer
CAHOKIA COLLECTS and RESPONSES Ancients of Cahokia,I offer these prayersas a person busy with everydaywork—aware that you alsobusied yourselves aroundour… Read More
Carol Dana
Grampy’s Tent We used to camp near the ocean, in Grampy’s tent. We lived in that old canvas tent. We needed forked poles… 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