A former creative writing teacher at SFU and Kwantlen College, Marilyn Dumont, a descendant of the Red River freedom fighter Gabriel Dumont, continues to assert the legitimacy of her Cree/Métis ancestry. Dumont's third poetry title, that tongued belonging (Kegedonce Press $15), has won Poetry Book of the Year and the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award at the most recent Aboriginal Book Awards. 0-9731396-9-2

[BCBW 2008]