Poetic Processing for the Spirit: Remembering and Reliving Indigenous Education

This collection of critical poetic responses depicts the personal journey of a Metis woman growing up and through Canadian public schooling. The poetic analyses of my life experiences rush out through torrents of emotion and thought. Where I stood, at the confluence of energies created by the interactions of non-Indigenous teachers and Indigenous learners, within a socially-contrived context of compulsory schooling, such outpouring was a logical response.