Table of Contents

Rudyard Griffiths -- Preface
Adrienne Clarkson -- Foreword

Brian Maracle -- The First Words
Rachel A. Qitsualik -- Skraeling
Basil Johnston -- The Wampum Belt Tells Us . . .
Tantoo Cardinal -- There Is a Place
Jovette Marchessault -- The Moon of the Dancing Suns
Thomas King -- Coyote and the Enemy Aliens
Tomson Highway -- Hearts and Flowers
Lee Maracle -- Goodbye, Snauq
Drew Hayden Taylor -- A Blurry Image on the Six O’Clock News

Acknowledgements
About the Contributors

About the Author

THOMAS KING is of Cherokee, Greek, and German descent. For the past five decades, he has worked as an activist for Native causes and an administrator of Native programs, and has taught Native literature and history at universities in the United States and Canada. He is the bestselling author of five novels, including Medicine River, Green Grass, Running Water, and Truth and Bright Water. He has been nominated for or won numerous awards and honours, including the National Aboriginal Achievement Award, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Trillium Award, the Commonwealth Prize, and the Order of Canada.

TOMSON HIGHWAY is a Cree from Brochet, in northern Manitoba. He is the celebrated author of the plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, both of which won Dora Mavor Moore Awards and Floyd S. Chalmers Awards. He holds three honorary degrees and is a member of the Order of Canada.

Reviews

"Ingenious. . . . The concept works. . . brilliantly."
—Maclean’s

"Our Story is an impressive collection of original fiction. . . . Brian Maracle’s retelling of the Iroquois creation myth is . . . powerful and haunting. . . . Jovette Marchessault’s 'Moon of the Dancing Sons' is, simply, beautiful and heartrending, while Rachel Qitsualik’s 'Skraeling' is a narrative of the highest order. . . . Our Story bridges native and European narrative traditions with considerable force."
—Quill and Quire