Miskwagoode Siksika Maple sets out on a

Maple sets out on a mission to free her sister

Sequoyah and Rosemary bond over their shared Native American background and tumultuous paths through the foster care system

Adele Perry

In June 2015

the teacher introduces a new student: Gary the snow goose

Miskwagoode Siksika Maple sets out on aMiskwagoode is a book of poems by Annharte (Marie Baker) who is Anishinaabe, Little Saskatchewan First Nation, Manitoba. Taken from the Anishinaabe word for woman, Miskwagoode is a lyrical portrayal of unreconciled Indigenous experience under colonialism, past and present. Annharte is Miskwa, and so is Annharte's mother, who disappeared when the author was a girl. Miskwagoode is Annharte's book about her mother loss, her mothermiss, about all the