"...When we heal our land, we are healed also." (p193) - Cherie Dimaline

She’d collected the dreams like bright beads on a string of nights that wound around her each day, every day until this one. (p173)

There must always be connection to nation when we tell stories. Taking a pan-Indigenous approach doesn’t work. Taking a colonial viewpoint doesn’t work. This changes the narrative of specific nations and is highly problematic. It leads to misunderstanding, misrepresentation, and stereotypes.

A writer creates, an editor crafts. And in the world of great literature, one cannot exist without the other.