In this award-winning collection, Ruth DyckFehderau and 27 storytellers offer a rich and timely accounting of contemporary life in Eeyou Istchee, the territory of the James Bay Cree of Northern Québec.

Connecting these stories is a disease – diabetes – but the stories themselves are not records of illness as much as they are deeply personal accounts of life in the North: the fine, swaying balances of living both in town and on the land, of family and work and studies, of healing from relocations and residential school histories while building communities of safety and challenge and joy, of hunting and hockey, and much more.
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Correction In "Some Notes About This Book", on page 1, the number of First Nations communities in Canada is mistakenly printed as 6341. It should read as 634. We regret the error.