The cover artwork on this issue of Talking Stick takes us to a world of the past focused via a modern medium, asking us to remember what we should have never forgotten: the importance of ancestral conviction... click here for more...

In the cold thickness of night a now departed relative crossed the Saint Lawrence alone in a canoe carrying our sacred wampum belts... click here for more...

The first time I saw him he was a blue beaded river banked with bone-fed flowers. The last time I saw him he was heading home to die... click here for more...

One Halloween I put on my costume as an American Indian. This was the nineteen seventies and as the mask pressed up against my face, I could smell the polyurethane co-mingling with my facial sweat...click here for more...

Shadowyze first came to prominence over a decade ago as a lone wolf among the handful of Native Americans rapping at that time...click here for more...