K8g8gwibakw Wantastegokwajok Wintergreen on Mount Wantastiquet Ali-sowanikik nahil8t Kwenitegok wji Wantastegokwajok Southward downstream on the Connecticut River from Mount… 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
Sebrena Tomah
Believe Hold on, be strong Finding our strength in who we are Through our ancestor’s ways Will help us get… Read More
Charlie True
Per the request of the late Abenaki Elder Gali Sanchez, this poem was lovingly read at his ceremony, as his… Read More
Letter from the Editorial Team
Dear Readers, We are extremely excited to bring you this sixth and special issue of Dawnland Voices 2.0: Autobiography. Like… 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
William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.
All the Way to the Bone I wish, I pray, I prayed, I thought, I even sing, for all good… Read More
Farewell Message from the Editor
It has been my great pleasure and honor to work with so many Dawnland writers over the past few years…. Read More
Joseph Bruchac–Featured Writer
Writer’s Statement You could say that my sons turned me into a children’s author at a time when my main… Read More
Rhonda Besaw
The Grave Robber or Brother Skunk Takes a Ride Somebody was robbing graves in Perkinsville. Not your typical storybook grave… Read More
Timothy Littlehawk Blanchette
The 6th Sense I see her On posters and on the TV screen I see her Outline piercing through beams… Read More
Carol Dana
Coats 1. It was fall and he was gone again. Oh, he’ll probably come back drunk, she thought to herself…. Read More
Joyce Heywood
Red Trillium at Lake Wildwood watercolor & acrylic Doc’s Magnolia Warbler watercolor Dad’s Jack-in-the-Pulpit watercolor David’s Bass watercolor Mom’s Bluebirds… Read More
Charlie True: In Memoriam
Don’t Look Back She was in a home for those who wait, where they sit and fondle favored toys from… Read More
