Steven Matsheshu

Urban Innu Love Songs Steven Matsheshu

People have been fascinated with North American Indian cultures from the beginning, yet there still remains a cloud of stereotypes and confusion surrounding actual living families and individuals. So often, the pictures and stories of North American Indians are generalized, lacking any in-depth witness to actual thoughts, feelings, fears, and dreams. This book is a collection of stories and poems from an Innu who travels between the world of his ancestral past to his undeniable place in today's global society. The stories and poems stand as testimony to the hardships of biculturalism and the mental/emotional strain of distance. Far from the Innu territory and the past which shapes Innu identity, the greatest struggles lay themselves bare on the pages in front of you. The words laugh as the author has hidden throughout the pages. These stories and poems come from a heart as old as the ever-expanding tundra of the North.