Mending the Violence of Men

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Light the smudge, breathe deep, from this sacred tobacco, cedar, sweeatgrass, and sage, burn all jealousy and hatred from this earth. O sacred smoke, make the world and us whole again; we women, this is what we do: sew and smudge, make the ugly beautiful. 

--"Mending the Violence of Men" aria, Li Keur: Riel's Heart of the North, by S.M. Steele

Extracted from:

Porter, Michelle. A Grandmother Begins the Story. Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023.