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Buffalo Bird

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From: Buffalo is the New Buffalo

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A work of historical speculative fiction, “Buffalo Bird” is set in the midtolate nineteenth century, before Canada violently colonized the Plains. Following the life of Angelique Loyer, a Two-Spirit Rougarou (shapeshifter), as she tries to solve a murder in her community and later joins the resistance against Canada, this story imagines that the nêhiyaw-pwat (Iron Confederacy), a political alliance among Cree, Saulteaux, Nakoda, and Métis, successfully stopped Canadian expansion into the West.

The chapter includes an “exploration” section at the end providing further context and insight into the Métis culture and history which it is inspired by.

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Chelsea Vowel

Chelsea Vowel is Métis from manitow-sâkahikan (Lac Ste. Anne), Alberta, currently residing in amiskwacîwâskihikan (Edmonton). Mother to six children, she has a BEd, an LLB, and an MA and is a Cree language instructor. Chelsea is a public intellectual, writer, and educator whose work intersects language, gender, Métis self-determination, and resurgence. Cohost of Indigenous feminist sci-fi podcast Métis in Space, cofounder of the Métis in Space Land Trust, and author of Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada, Chelsea blogs at apihtawikosisan.com and makes legendary bannock.