Swift Fox All Along

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What does it mean to be Mikmaq And if Swift Fox cant find the answer, will she ever feel like part of her family

When Swift Foxs father picks her up to go visit her aunties, uncles, and cousins, her belly is already full of butterflies. And when he tells her that today is the day that shell learn how to be Mikmaq, the butterflies grow even bigger. Though her father reassures her that Mikmaq is who she is from her eyes to her toes, Swift Fox doesnt understand what that means. Her family welcomes her with smiles and hugs, but when its time to smudge and everyone else knows how, Swift Fox feels even more like she doesnt belong.

Then she meets her cousin Sully and realizes that shes not the only one whos unsureand she may even be the one to teach him something about what being Mikmaq means. Based on the authors own experience, with striking illustrations by Maya McKibbin, Swift Fox All Along is a poignant story about identity and belonging that is at once personal and universally resonant.

Author Bio

Rebecca Thomas is a Mikmaw woman registered with Lennox Island First Nation. She is the daughter of a residential school survivor and unrelenting advocate for her community. She is a published poet and was the Halifax Poet Laureate from 2016 to 2018. She lives in Kjipuktuk, Mikmaki. Maya McKibbinis a Two-Spirited Ojibwe, Yoeme, and Irish filmmaker, illustrator, and storyteller. Using her education in computer graphics and interactive media, her work is rooted in the natural world and our relations to it.