Sohkeyihta

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   Sohkeyihta - Louise Bernice Halfe

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Since 1990, Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfes work has stood out as essential testimony to Indigenous experiences within the ongoing history of colonialism and the resilience of Indigenous storytellers. Sohkeyihta includes searing poems, written across the expanse of Halfes career, aimed at helping readers move forward from the darkness into a place of healing. Halfes own afterword is an evocative meditation on the Cree word sohkeyihta: Have courage. Be brave. Be strong. She writes of coming into her practice as a poet and the stories, people, and experiences that gave her courage and allowed herto construct her lair. She also reflects on her relationship with nehiyawewin, the Cree language, and the ways in which it informs her relationships and poetics. The introduction by David Gaertner situates Halfes writing within the history of whiteness and colonialism that works to silence and repress Indigenous voices. Gaertner pays particular attention to the ways in which Halfe addresses, incorporates, and pushes back against silence, and suggests that her work is an act of bearing witness what Kwagiulth scholar Sarah Hunt identifies as making Indigenous lives visible.