With texts by Jeannette Armstrong, Thomas King , Lee Maracle, Gerald Vizenor, Drew Hayden Taylor, Sherman Alexie, Neal McLeod, Daniel Heath Justice, Renate Eigenbrod, Sam McKegney, Tomson Highway, Jo-Ann Episkenew, Emma LaRocque, Keavy Martin and Warren Carriou.

This anthology brings together writers' points of view and theoretical texts. Both personal and committed, these writings show the richness and fertility of Indigenous thought. In addition to providing keys to reading and teaching First Nations, Métis and Inuit literature, this book allows us to better understand the issues related to their territories, cultures and imaginations. These voices invite us to think about the world based on the stories that form our foundations.

If there is one thing I am certain of, it is that this book is a must-read for anyone – indigenous or non-indigenous – who wants to embark on the study of indigenous literature… These pages are rich in concrete experiences, ethical, critical and philosophical theories and reflections, and in valuable advice for any researcher approaching, too often in a very naive way, this minefield. In their own way, these texts also tell stories. Stories of humans who, in the depths of the night, fire arrow words at point-blank range against the great colonial lie. Stories that invite us to unlearn in order to know better.

Excerpt from the preface by Louis-Karl Picard Sioui