Nicola I. Campbell 
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A Weaving of Recovery, Resilience, and Resurgence

Table of Contents

Prairie Letters

• February 4, 1973


• April 5, 1973


• July 1, 1973


• July 26, 1973

Her Blood Is From Sptétkw

• sptétkw


• fried bologna and rice


• yellow house


• Speed Sew


• hamburger stew


• lullabies


• buckle-up shoes


• Little People


• c̓əlc̓ále


• alpine mountains


• frog whisperers


• cousin cluster

Métis

• Saskatchewan


• La Ronge


• Mooshoom


• Back to Batoche, 1985

Nłeʔkepmxcín Lullaby

• skíxzeʔ transforms


• Cəceʔ and Sínciʔ


• Rockstar Hair


• K̓éceʔ Tea


• University of British Columbia


• Blackout


• for the party


• Tmíxw—This Land


• Grandpa’s Corrals


• Learning to Heal


• i am sorry


• it is okay.


• the same as trees

Land Teachings

• Métis


• Beginnings


• Prayer Warriors


• gathering


• gathering songs


• sn’ix’wam

Coming to My Senses

• The land, we are woven together like strands of light


• tmíxw. temexw. temxulaxw.


• Porcupine Song


• snow on the mountains


• Salish Dancer


• The Kingfisher’s Dance


• race day


• quw’utsun

sorrow

• September 16, 1998, 10:15 pm


• deer stew


• i dreamt of you last night


• tracks


• little brown


• September 24, 1998


• October 1, 1999, 10:15 pm


• With Each Stroke of My Paddle

yémit and merímstn

• Teapot Hill


• this trail


• unceded


• Huckleberries Are My Weakness


• medicine song


• pressure canner rhythms


• sx̣wúsm


• Spring Chicken


• going home


• come inside


• wildflowers


• nkéxw


• tmíxw


• A Gathering of Stones


• the riverbed is home

this body is a mountain, this body is the land

• as sisters


• Scw̓éxmx


• May 20, 2000


• Adanac Trail

Resurgence

• The Trail


• Stories Are Alive


• Why Am I Writing This?


• Run


• I Believe in the Power of Prayer


• We Are Their Prayers Come to Life


• Reweave the Universe


• Offering

Acknowledgements

Glossary

Index

Nicola I. Campbell is the author of Shi-shi-etko, Shin-chi’s Canoe, Grandpa’s Girls, and A Day with Yayah. Nłeʔkepmx, Syílx, and Métis, from British Columbia, her stories weave cultural and land-based teachings that focus on respect, endurance, healing, and reciprocity.Nicola's books have been among the finalists for numerous children’s literary awards. Shin-chi’s Canoe won the 2009 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award and was a 2008 Governor General's Award for Illustration finalist.