Foreword

alterNatives was a difficult play for me to write. Within the
world it encompasses, I had to weigh social debate,
cultural conflicts, stereotypes, Judeo-Ojibway relations,
and a honking big hunk of moose. Just your average day
in the urban Native community, I guess.

In my years of travel and meeting people, I have
always been amazed by what people would say to me, or
what they would think about me (both Native and non-
Native.) And as I moved through this complex world, I
would record, somewhere in the back of my mind, these
little nuggets of conversation, of impressions, of reality
that I planned to come back and visit some day, because .
the world is a very interesting place. And here we are
now.

Within the pages of this play, I can safely say that just
under ninety percent of what you will read is true,
accurate, and real. I only invented the situation and the
names, which account for the remaining ten percent of
the content. Humanity created the rest of the story. I've
always been a believer that reality is a much better writer
than I could ever be.