The poems capture brief moments of beauty

celebrating knowledge and sharing it

the ancestral

live out their lives

I Will Live for Both of Us provides key insights into Inuit history

Kohkom's First Drum horror The poems capture brief momentsWhen Charlie's Kohkom asks him what the best part of his school day was, he knows right away: Indigenous drum circle! Kohkom tells him that not very long ago she was gifted her very first drum at a ceremony for children who never returned home from residential schools. But Charlie doesn't understand. How could she only have gotten her first drum so recently? Kohkom explains that she was taken from her family when she was very little because of