Ray Young Bear draws on ancient Meskwaki tradition and modern popular culture to create poems that provoke

After showing the kids how to prepare for a fishing trip

A dream for a healthy planet

make and solve problems

managed a drug house run by members of his family

Five Little Indians justice Ray Young Bear draws onTaken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world