Greetings, Everyone! It’s been a long haul to get this project up and running and I want to thank you all for your patience as we did a tremendous amount of behind the scenes work to create a new website and migrate all the archived content from the previous issues of Dawnland Voices 2.0! The…Read More
Issues/Articles
In Memoriam: Deacon Rick Phillips-Doyle
Distressed Loon Spirit churning wildly upon the ocean’s door Can’t find no when or why for Waves of life cuts to the core Searching for the safest shore Antiseptic sting on an open wound Whimpering mind of a distressed loon Crying out its sorrowful tunes Longing for solitude of a darkened moon So much to…Read More
Roger Paul
I am the… Nil yaq wocosen (I am the wind) pesni yali yai yut kcikuk (meandering through the woods) Nil yaq mip (I am a leaf) pesni yali mill ahmi (drifting downward to the ground) Nil yaq mahtogess (I am a rabbit) yali yut mill doq qi (bounding playfully through the woods) Nil yaq wastewiz …Read More
Mihku Paul
Her Medicine This body, I know better than a bird knows the tree called home, perched in the leafy dreams and summer madness that calls me to flight. I have always dreamed I flew. A purposeful seeking, I move over the canopy, gaze at the tops of bark-skinned cousins, green hands waving below. Their collected…Read More
Crystal Dawn Draffen
Full Blood Love i. The fire crackles, the ice cracks. Our half-truths step forward, As our history comes back. I was harder then, Then I am now. Notice my shield, its iridescent glow, The rainbow shimmer deep, down low, Blending, becoming, Full blood love. The things we could not change Have brought us here To…Read More
Victoria Akins
I am from… I am from Cape Cod ~ Otis Air Force Base and telephone lines I am from my backyard I am from stories and songs ~ I am from Celtic lands I am from ocean shores I am from mountains and rivers, moss covered granite, and streams I am from the Dawnland, from…Read More
Alice Azure
Jingle Dress Song for My Grandmother in This Time of Global Pandemic For Petra Sofie Pedersen 1887 – 1937 A rattling started in my mind as I danced in a virtual circle of women spread from Minnesota down to Illinois. A remembered photograph tints you gaunt, a cloche shadowing p vacant eyes – two surviving…Read More
From the Editor
Greetings, everyone. We hope you will enjoy this issue of Dawnland Voices 2.0 and spread the word. There were several challenges we faced in the course of getting this issue put together, not the least of which was the COVID pandemic. We want to thank each of you who submitted and encourage all of you…Read More
prose winner: nolan altvater
Wabanaki Tools of Diplomacy: Storying Protocols as Political Will Oral history supports that Wabanaki people have inhabited what is now New England and the Canadian Maritimes since time immemorial. Throughout this existence, and still to this day, we survived by following the teachings of Gluskabe, adapting to the natural environment by creating many tools relevant…Read More
POETRY WINNER: MUI’N SEWELL SATTLER
We Are Mountains With dew on our lips And moss shrouding our skin We bear the burden Forced upon our quaking backs With our tears of sand And shivering voices of volcanic ash We remember Everything we touch feels like salt Making itself at home In our already putrid wounds Because of our bitter dreams…Read More
Cassidy Anderson
Okay. I long I ache I breathe you in And I can’t take it I’m nervous I’m twisted inside I love you I can’t have you It’s troubling Right? You don’t want me Like I want you I need you But you don’t need me My aching heart doesn’t understand yet Don’t worry It’ll learn…Read More
Madeleine Hutchins
At Shantok It is the last day of a four-day funeral fire, when we left in the land of the living can begin to focus on our grieving. We have been mourning a relative who hadn’t had time in his young life to find someone with whom to be buried, sharing one gravestone. Past the…Read More
Gillian Joseph
wičánȟpi [is Dakȟota for star] I traipse in a forest dense with fallen trees’ reverberations few lend an ear to how sweet, walking among the sap of languages. grasp for any syllable distinguishable from white noise, colonized vernacular birthing a cacophony the glare dims; now richness, now depth finding myself among whispers layering over each…Read More
Katt LaSarte
Stranger in the Catacombs There’s probably a couple hundred kids sitting awkwardly around lunch tables. There’s this dense feeling of anticipation. There was the feeling in the empty hallway with the kids’ drawings and painted handprints, and there is the feeling in the cafeteria with the high ceiling and the national flags lining the walls…Read More
Sage Neptune
A Single Day “Welcome to SNR—your nationwide source for morning news all across Sequoyah. I’m your host, Johnny Gilmore—” I reached for the leftmost nob and switched off the radio. The sounds of the waves, crashing into the rocks peppering the river, overtook my ears. Without even looking I groped the air until…Read More
Responding to Darryl Leroux on Twitter
These days, many people are learning about ethnic fraud on social media, which makes it challenging to distinguish genuine fraud from the many Indigenous people who are routinely harassed about their “authenticity.” Twitter is obviously not the place for nuanced conversation. But I went ahead and posted the following thread on January 15, precisely because…Read More
Navigating Partnerships with Indigenous People in a Time of Ethnic Fraud Panic
by Siobhan Senier Among the many miseries that 2020 has visited upon this world, it has brought an avalanche of ethnic fraud cases. Several professors have been outed after having passed as people of color, and having built their academic reputations on that basis. On my own campus, a white male chemistry professor set up…Read More
Welcome to Issue 9
Thanks for your patience as we have worked to publish Issue 9. We are excited to present a mix of established writers who appeared in the original Dawnland book (Joan Avant, Alice Azure, Carol Dana) alongside new and rediscovered talents (Mary Bassett, Adrian Downey). We publish the Dawnland magazine once per year now, aiming for…Read More
