Permissions and Acknowledgements

“The Tree of Meaning and the Work of Ecological Linguistics” by Robert Bringhurst, from The Tree of Meaning: Thirteen Talks (Kentville: Gaspereau Press, 2008; Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2008). Copyright © 2008 by Robert Bringhurst. Reprinted by permission of Gaspereau Press for the UK and Canada, and by Counterpoint for the U.S. and abroad.

“Maps of Dreams” by Hugh Brody, from Maps & Dreams: Indians and the British Columbia Frontier (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1981, 1988; New York: Pantheon, 1983). Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Ucluelet” and “Kitwancool” by Emily Carr, from Klee Wyck (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre: an imprint of D&M Publishers, 2004). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

“In the Shadow of Red Cedar” by Wade Davis, from Shadows in the Sun. Copyright © 1998 Island Press. Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington, DC.

“The Salmon of the Heart” by Tom Jay, from Reaching Home: Pacific Salmon, Pacific People (Portland: Graphic Arts Books, 1995). Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Lew Welch: An Appreciation” by Maxine Hong Kingston, from Hawai‘i One Summer (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1998). Copyright © 1987, 1998 by Maxine Hong Kingston. Reprinted by permission of the University of Hawai‘i Press.

“In the Great Bend of the Souris River” by Barry Lopez, from Light Action in the Caribbean: Stories, by Barry Lopez. Copyright © 2000 by Barry Holstun Lopez. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, and Sterling Lord Literistics.

“Burning the Shelter” by Louis Owens, from Mixed Blood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place (University of Oklahoma Press, 1998; Red River Books, 2001). Reprinted by permission of Polly Owens.

“The Sasquatch at Home” by Eden Robinson, from The Sasquatch at Home: Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2011). Reprinted by permission of University of Alberta Press and the author.

“The Beginning of the World” and “ X pá:y, the Cedar & the Flood” by Chief William K’HHalserten Sepass, from Sepass Poems: Ancient Songs of Y-Ail-Mihth (Mission, BC: Longhouse, 2009). Reprinted by permission of the publisher and Gerald Sepass.

“Reinhabitation” by Gary Snyder, from A Place in Space (Berkeley: Counterpoint, 1995). Copyright © 1995 by Gary Snyder. Reprinted by permission of Counterpoint.

“Fresh Horses” by Richard Wagamese, from Runaway Dreams (Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2011). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.