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By Jordan Abel

Jordan Abel is a Nisga'a writer from Vancouver. Abel’s work has appeared in numerous periodicals, and his chapbooks have been published by Above/Ground Press and JackPine Press. Abel’s first book, The Place of Scraps (Talonbooks), was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.

THIS POEM WAS COMMISSIONED BY SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY'S CENTRE FOR DIALOGUE IN HONOUR OF CHIEF ROBERT JOSEPH, RECIPIENT OF THE 2014 JACK P BLANEY AWARD FOR DIALOGUE, AND WAS ORIGINALLY PRESENTED AT VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY AS PART OF THE CITY OF VANCOUVER'S YEAR OF RECONCILIATION.