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• Title:Cut to fortress / Tawahum Bige.
  
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• Author/Creator:Bige, Tawahum, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Gibsons, British Columbia : Nightwood Editions, 2022.
  ©2022
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: YP B54 C87 2022
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Cree--Literature--British Columbia--Vancouver.
  Dene--Literature--British Columbia--Vancouver.
  
• Canadian Subjects: First Nations--Canada--Poetry.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects: Decolonization--Canada--Poetry.
  Indigenous peoples--Canada--Poetry.
  
• Genre/Form:Poetry.
  Poems.
  
• Description:96 pages : portrait ; 21 cm
  
• Summary:"A stunning debut poetry collection confronting colonialism, relationships, grief and intergenerational wounds. Cut to Fortress considers the possibility of decolonization through a personal lens, urging for a resistance that is tied using cord and old-growth tree roots; a resistance that tethers us all together in this contemporary existence. With an upbringing in Surrey, fraught familial conflicts, the passing of his older brother and its influence on his world view, Bige slices through the forts built overtop occupied Turtle Island to examine their origin and his own. His journey climbs into the mountains while he reconnects with his Dene and Cree cultures like a gripping hand on jagged rock. His path draws into the concrete urban streets that Wetako-medicine lurks through, especially for his people. The labour of these travels brings him to the springs where healing passed-down traumas becomes possible by drawing water through vulnerability."-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
  
• Notes:Poems.
  
• Cited in:Indexed in the Native American Artists Resource Collection Online, Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, at the artist name level (February 3, 2023)
  
• ISBN:9780889714168 (softcover)
  0889714169 (softcover)