NAOMI McILWRAITH is an educator, poet, and essayist, with a mixed Cree, Ojibwe, Scottish, and English inheritance. She currently works at Grant MacEwan University and has held instructional positions at the University of Alberta and The King's University College.

Foreword Jenna Butler
The Sounds of Plains Cree: A Guide to Pronunciation
Family Poems
ReclamationPoems
A Few Ideas from amiskwacî-wâskahikanihk
The Young Linguist
History Poems
Notes on the Poems
Cree-English correspondences
Bibliography
Publication Credits
Acknowledgements

Through poems that move between the two languages, McIlwraith explores the beauty of the intersection between nêhiyawêwin, the Plains Cree language, and English, âkayâsîmowin. Written to honour her father's facility in nêhiyawêwin and her mother's beauty and generosity as an inheritor of Cree, Ojibwe, Scottish, and English, kiyâm articulates a powerful yearning for family, history, peace, and love.