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A landmark collection of Indigenous comics that redraws how we understand the past

The book was illustrated by Tlingit artist Nick Alan Foote

With its highly original

setting the imperial context for Canadian histories of medicine and colonialism

Cloud Missives thriller ] but a terrible aIntimate, dissecting, and liberating, Cloud Missives is a poetry collection of excavation and renewal. Like an anthropologist entering a dig site and unearthing bones, Kenzie Allen reveals a life from what endures after tragedies and acts of survival. Across five sections, poems explore pop culture the stereotypes in Peter Pan, Indiana Jones, and beyond fairy tales, myths, protests, and forgotten histories, before arriving at a dazzling series of love