Creeland
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Creeland is a poetry collection concerned with notions of home and the quotidian attachments we feel to those notions, even across great distances. Even in an area such as Treaty Eight (northern Alberta), a geography decimated by resource extraction and development, people are creating, living, laughing, surviving and flourishing—or at least attempting to. The poems in this collection are preoccupied with the role of Indigenous aesthetics in the creation and nurturing of complex Indigenous lifeworlds. They aim to honour the encounters that everyday Cree economies enable, and the words that try—and ultimately fail—to articulate them. Hunt gestures to the movements, speech acts and relations that exceed available vocabularies, that may be housed within words like joy , but which the words themselves cannot fully convey. This debut collection is vital in the context of a colonial aesthetic designed to perpetually foreclose on Indigenous futures and erase Indigenous existence. the Cree word for constellation is a saskatoon berry bush in summertime the translation for policeman in Cree is mîci nisôkan, kohkôs the translation for genius in Cree is my kôhkom muttering in her sleep the Cree word for poetry is your four-year-old niece’s cracked lips spilling out broken syllables of nêhiyawêwin in between the gaps in her teeth
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Dallas Hunt. Creeland
Creeland
Contents
Porcupine I
Cree Dictionary
Louise
Kinanâskomitin
Dancing Yellow Thunder
No Obvious Signs of Distress
Porcupine II
Ada Street, Pocatello
Mahihkan
Wahkohtowin
Healing, Suspended
Tracks
I Was Born Blue
Scraps from Summer Visits
Rueful
150 Kilometres West of Saskatoon
Small
Stretch Marks // Sun Dogs
The Cree Word for Careening
Woman Making Tea
Mozart, Saskatchewan
Chris Gaines
Nathan Apodaca
I Only Tried to Break
Porcupine III
A Prairie Fire That Wanders About
Main Street and Sixth Avenue
A Crook That Signifies Home
Spiralling (Fine for Now)
I Almost Had a Mental Breakdown During My Master’s Degree
There Are No Good Settlers
The Lighthouse
Spillimacheen
Comfort
Even Tombs Die
Wake
Curriculum in the Wait
Nîkânihk
Born Under Punches (in Billings, Montana)
Entry Four
Narrative Trap(ping)
Common Spaces
Porcupine IV
Kôhkom Freedom
Glossary
Acknowledgements
About the Author
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Dallas Hunt
the translation for expedition in Cree is travelling twenty minutes to the only gas station in Faust, Alberta to buy a Hygaard pizza sub the translation for success in Cree is executing the perfect frog splash on your younger brother the Cree word for white man is unpaid child support the translation for conflicted in Cree is your deep, steadfast love for country superstar Dwight Yoakam (or, depending on the regional dialect, George Jones, Patsy Cline or Blue Rodeo)
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it’s hard for institutions to respond to medical crises when medical crises are how they’re constituted.
basically what they produce and how you are produced when “impaired”
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