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- ↑ Brant, Beth. The Good Red Road: Journeys of Homecoming in Native Women's Writing, from And Still We Rise: Feminist Political Mobilizing in Canada, ed: Linda Carty, Women's Press, Toronto, ISBN 0-88961-177-7, p452
- ↑ Armstrong et al., Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology, Broadview Press, 2001, ISBN 1-55111-200-0, p. 47.
- ↑ Brant, Beth. The Good Red Road: Journeys of Homecoming in Native Women's Writing, from And Still We Rise: Feminist Political Mobilizing in Canada, ed: Linda Carty, Women's Press, Toronto, ISBN 0-88961-177-7, p. 361.
- ↑ Brant, Beth. A Gathering of Spirit, Women's Press, p. 12.