Kohkom's First Drum short stories Wildcat contends that we have

Wildcat contends that we have created an “insulated ignorance” for ourselves

and their close identification with Indian scholarship makes their invisibility as pioneering founders of this specialized field all the more intriguing

and the imperfect splendor of Bdoketu (summer)

Baptism by blood

Kohkom's First Drum short stories Wildcat contends that we haveWhen Charlie's Kohkom asks him what the best part of his school day was, he knows right away: Indigenous drum circle! Kohkom tells him that not very long ago she was gifted her very first drum at a ceremony for children who never returned home from residential schools. But Charlie doesn't understand. How could she only have gotten her first drum so recently? Kohkom explains that she was taken from her family when she was very little because of