Shining Lights
December 2017
The lights along Prince Philip Drive are shining.
Brightness against the dark- whatever you’re celebrating this holiday, we wish you love, peace, and togetherness.
Sincerely,
The NQ team
Letter to Joey Smallwood
BY Shannon Webb-Campbell
Dear Joey: I’m still here and mixed
Mi’kmaq after all these years
You’re long dead, yet
Confederation couldn’t stop
Newfoundland’s ongoing
colonial violence.
You continued so unapologetically,
telling Ottawa there are no red Indians–
I think the story is best told by focusing on individuals: An interview with Dr. Andrea Procter
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BINGO
BY Jenina MacGillivray
Troy Gallant had curly chestnut hair, and he was tall. By far, he was the cutest and nicest boy in the neighborhood. He would never try to put the moves on you at the Laundromat while you were folding your underwear, for example.