Overview

• Out Oct. 14, the book interweaves self-scrutinizing memoir, reported history and allegorical Coyote tales.
• An early BookPage review calls it a memoir-history hybrid that pairs contemporary life with ancestral narratives categorized as lexéy’em and tspetékwll.
• NoiseCat connects the book to his 2024 documentary Sugarcane, extending an inquiry into residential school trauma and his family’s survival.
• He describes a creative process grounded in personal commitments that included moving in with his father, taking on ceremonies, spending time on the reservation, fishing and learning stories.
• The title draws from “Tsecwíncuw-k,” a Secwépemc morning greeting taught by his grandmother, and he presents the work as a challenge to the “myth of Indian death.”