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That’s how I learned that tsecwínucw-k is a morning greeting, kind of like “good morning” in Secwepemctsín. Except it doesn’t mean “good morning.” That’s “le7 te secwenwen.” Instead, “tsecwínucw-k” means “you survived the night.” I often
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“I believed what my father told me. Stories do more than comfort. They take you away and bring you back better made.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
“This is not planet Earth as we found it. This is a new place—a fire planet we have made, with an atmosphere more conducive to combustion than at any time in the past 3 million years.”
― Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World
― Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World
“But surviving wasn’t enough. To endure or pass through endurance test after endurance test only ever gave you endurance test passing abilities. Simply lasting was great for a wall, for a fortress, but not for a person.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
“If a tree burns in the forest and nobody sees it…”
― Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World
― Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World
“[I]t has been one long desolation, one long hungry season since the other people came and took the land and the language and the very lives of the people. A hungry season, even for It.”
― Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
― Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
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