Jacqueline Oker
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The Muskeg people’s land.

The site where your haaa songs echo.

I have never seen you but

your prophecies and medicine songs

swirl in my head.

Asyoo and Amma say you were the last Nache.

I’'m proud to be from this bloodline.

We sang your horse song
the one given to you by the spirits.

Did you hear the agony in our voices?

Assa,

where do we go?

What do we do?

Assa,

please help us

I hear their machines coming

down the hill.

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