Trees. Overhead series. 3. Plains Cree Shizhách’i’íí ashíí Shitsiłki’ii

Shizhách’i’íí ashíí Shitsiłki’ii

is increasingly drawn to Red’s apparently hypnotic Indigenous charisma

Anishinaabe (Ojibwe)

and adult years all told with delicious Trickster-like humour

that First Nations spirituality doesn’t consist of worshipping rocks

Trees. Overhead series. 3. Plains Cree Shizhách’i’íí ashíí Shitsiłki’iiIn this final installation of the Overhead Series (Clouds 1 and Stars 2), Lucy Hach once again transports the reader with intimate revelations on identity by exploring both her personal and ancestral relationship to the forest and the quiet sentinels that root together everything. Haches prose is extraordinary in its combination of self awareness yet unselfconscious honesty and skillful restraint, creating a sense of connection under the tangle of