For Zitkala-Sa Grade Twelve and Taiaiake Alfred

and Taiaiake Alfred

Sébastien Grammond explains how minority rights make identity legally relevant

It keeps the memory of the boy's simple request to his father for a canoe of his own that he and his older sister can paddle

Wangari Maathai writes the foreword

to be widely seen and

For Zitkala-Sa Grade Twelve and Taiaiake AlfredPaying tribute to Yankton Dakota writer, musician, and activist Zitkla (b. 1876), this publication is structured through a series of scores for thirteen contemporary female Indigenous performing artists: Laura Ortman, Cheryl LHirondelle, Suzanne Kite, Barbara Croall, Jacqueline Wilson, Autumn Chacon, Heidi Senungetuk, Ange Loft, Joy Harjo, Carmina Escobar, Olivia Shortt, Candice Hopkins, and Buffy Sainte Marie. For Zitkla is supplemented by texts by