7 Indigenous Narratives That Reckon with the Past - Electric Literature

7 Indigenous Narratives That Reckon with the Past - Electric Literature

When I was a young girl we would sit in a circle around a fire, the center as our hearth. The tall evergreens towered above us, swaying in the Northern prairie night sky, between thousands of tiny stars. My Mosom’s deep, ancient voice held the space as he told stories of our trickster, Wesakechak, and the dark spirit of the Witigo. Us little ones, young Nehiyaw and Métis, would sit in awe and horror, unable to turn our ears down low. As a young …