Zali Morgan, Colours of Goolugatup, 2023. Watercolour Monoprint on Arches, 76cm × 56cm. © Zali Morgan, 2023. Reproduced with permission of the artist.
Westerly: First Nations
Online Special Issue 13
The stories, poems, oratory, art and images contained within this special digital collaborative project between Fives: A Companion to Denver Quarterly and Westerly Magazine is representative of the rich diversity of native and Indigenous cultural experience and their unique conceptions of storytelling and world-building.
‘For each writer, poet, storyteller, artist and orator included in this collaborative project labor within complex sets of relationships and connections that both define and remake their unique places in the web of existence, while being generative of fresh permutations and visionary insights that can carry us all more tenderly and safely into the future rapt in the twirling, swirling and circling systems of time, space and the mysteries of being.’
Billy J. Stratton, University of Denver.
From: ‘On Native and Indigenous Pasts, Presents and Futures in the Land Through Memory, Image and Storytelling’, 2023.
Westerly: First Nations is a collaboration between Westerly Magazine and Denver Quarterly. It was guest edited by SJ Burton and Billy J. Stratton.
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Contents
From FIVES
Billy J. Stratton ‘On Native and Indigenous Pasts, Presents and Futures in the Land Through Memory, Image and Storytelling’
William Walks ‘Along Words and Memories at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site’
Kimberly Blaeser ‘Vernal’
Kimberly Blaeser ‘Gitigaanan’
Kimberly Blaeser ‘Giishpin Ikwewag, Giishpin Nibi (If Women, If Water)’
Kimberly Blaeser ‘In the pause before you speak’
Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. ‘American Rex’
Diane Glancy ‘Mid July, Texas’
Diane Glancy ‘Two Spirals on the Canyon Wall’
Diane Glancy ‘Summons’
Diane Glancy ‘If We Could but Lightly Travel’
Samia Goudie ‘Salt Water Dancing’
Brent Learned ‘Manifest Destiny’
Gerald Vizenor ‘Fugitive Puppets’
Luci Tapahonso ‘Ilíígo1 Naalyéhé: Goods of Value’
From Westerly
Sarah-Jane Burton ‘The Wonder and Silence of Paper’
Brenda Saunders ‘An Englishman’s Estate’
Brenda Saunders ‘Coro-boree’
Dr Stacey Kim Coates ‘Reflections on a Journey’
Paul Collis ‘About Last Night’
Paul Collis ‘So Deep the Blue…’
Marion Kickett ‘My Connection to my Grandmother’s Country’
Teneale Lavender ‘Remembrance’
Chelinay Gates ‘Fingers’
Errata
A correction needs to be noted in Samia Goudie’s piece ‘Salt Water Dancing’, on p.71-2, the word ‘Booglebah’ should be spelt ‘Boogelbah’. Apologies to the traditional custodians and community of speakers of the Bundjalung language for this error.
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