Tapping her troubled personal history

"—Winds of Change

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Educated in traditional Dakota ways

Long Soldier sutures found language with her own lyrically stark diction

Bkejwanong Dbaajmowinan: Stories of Where the Waters Divide ceremony Tapping her troubled personal historyBkejwanong means where the waters part, but the waters of St. Clair River are not a point of separation. The same waters that sustain life on and around Bkejwanongformerly known as Walpole Island, Ontarioflow down into Chippewas of the Thames, the community to which author Monty McGahey II belongs. While there are no living fluent speakers of Anishinaabemowin in this community, McGahey has fostered relationships with fluent speakers from nearby