Kristin Catherwood

  • The things that can break your heart

    The things that can split your heart wide open. Like the young man across from me…

  • The Gap is Treaty 4 Land

    The Gap is Treaty 4 Land

    When I was a kid, we learned about Louis Riel. We learned that there used to…

  • Things that Last

    Things that Last

    I believe only in things lasting forever. – Andrew Suknaski It’s like he knew me when…

  • Whistle down the heavens

    The other day, a young man of Cree heritage told me this: “When I was a…

  • Stillness, Motion

    I was born under a mutable sign, meaning that I am comfortable with motion, that I…

  • What’s Lost

    shugmanitou/a humble prayer to you for strength and light/to illuminate the dark faces of the lost…

  • Next Year Country

    “There was always the land, those acres a man could walk over at sunset… His own…

  • A Scream in the Night

    There are often rumours of cougars in these parts…unconfirmed sightings, lambs taken with nothing left but…

  • Sun Stands Still

    Sun Stands Still

    The olde year now away is fled, The new year it is entered – Traditional Longest…

  • Trail

    Trail

    “Who ever listened to the dreamer or a poet” – Andrew Suknaski, Wood Mountain Poems A…