Description: This book of essays by intergenerational members of Six Nations of the Grand River and their neighbours explores the responsibilities we all share to learn about, raise awareness of, and enact the tenets of the Covenant Chain-Two Row Wampum agreement in order to work toward peaceful, friendly, and respectful co-habitation on the "river of life."
Brief description: Ki'en Debicki is a queer, Kanien'keha: ka, enby poet living and loving along the banks of Kanyatarí io (beautiful lake) in Anonwarore'tsherakayon: ne (Hamilton ON). They are an assistant professor at McMaster University, and associate professor at Six Nations Polytechnic. Ki'en's writing has been published in The Malahat Review, Grain Magazine, Studies in Canadian Literature and Storytelling, Self, Society, among others.
Review Quotes: "Deyohahá ge: brilliantly reminds us of our obligations and responsibilities to one another, and the more-than-human world. It shows that pathways can only be forged by respecting the waters, earth, fires, and skies through which all creation travels."--John Borrows, Loveland Chair in Indigenous Law, University of Toronto