This collection brings together Indigenous writers whose poems and stories explore ancestral memory, intergenerational ties, and nonlinear time. Here, the sacred meets the everyday: birch bark and buckskin alongside Auntie’s texts; tap shoes as talismans; frybread grounding memory.

Grief, rage, and survival bleeds through these pages. Bodies carry haunted pasts and sacred futures. Rage becomes protection, poetry, and righteous fire. The land is kin, teacher, and witness alive in stories of return and ceremony.

These works move through time like water: bathing in ancestral lakes, dreaming with stars, walking beside our ancestors. They conjure Indigenous futures where joy and resistance are one.

Each piece is a thread, part song, part conjuring, part map, leading us back to land, to kin, to self.