Introduction
Daniel T. Williams [date unknown –1880]
“Notebook 1872–1875.” Letter to Hudson’s Bay Company Factor, George Kennedy, April 12, 1873
Dr. Alfred Schmitz Shadd [1870–1915]
“To the Electorate of the District of Kinistino,” 1905 Letters to The Melfort Moon
Mildred Lewis Ware [1871–1905]
Three Letters
William Sylvester Alpheus Beal [1874–1968]
from Memoir of the Swan River Valley, Manitoba
3 Glass–plate photographs
Alice Ethel Lewis [1886–1960]
“In Loving Memory of Alberta”
Jefferson Davis Edwards [1888–1979]
“There Was a Cloud Over Amber Valley,” from The Window of Our Memories
John Bell Bowden [1888–1982]
“Always Be a Factor in the Community!”
Sylvester Long [1890–1932]
“My Trail Upward,” from Long Lance: The Autobiography of a Blackfoot Indian Chief
“Canoe Song”
“Death Song of Long Lance”
Rosa Shannon [c.1880–1931]
“We Gave Our Lives to This Part of the Country,” from The Window of Our Memories
Martha Edwards [1890–1977]
“That Is What Pioneers Had to Go Through,” from The Window of Our Memories
Amanda Janet (Nettie) Ware [1893–1989]
“John Ware”
E. A. Cobbs [dates unknown]
“This Bias Was Good, for It Caused the Black People to Fight”
Ellis Hooks [1907–1979]
“The Way I Felt, I Wanted to Plead Guilty: I Wanted the World to Know,” from the Provincial Archives of Alberta Oral History Project
Luther Gerard [1914–2004]
“Community Spirit”
Lloyd Mayes [1916–1972?]
“Homebrew,” from North of the Gully
Goldie Gordon [dates unknown]
“Even the Bad Was Good,” from North of the Gully
Gwen Hooks [1918–]
from The Keystone Legacy: Recollections of a Black Settler
Willa R. Dallard [1898–1988]
“Memories of My Father: The Late Willis Bowen of Amber Valley”
Woody Strode [1914–1994]
“Mixed Breed”
“A Hero in Dogtown”
Clinton Murphy [1926–2004]
“Ode to the Amber Valley Baseball Team”
Fil Fraser [1932–]
from Alberta’s Camelot: Culture & the Arts in the Lougheed Years
Claire Harris [1937–]
"Backstage at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary,” from She
Addena Sumter–Freitag [1944–]
from Stay Black & Die
Linus Tongwo Asong [1947–2012]
from No Way to Die
Archie Crail [1948–]
“An Election”
Nigel Darbasie [1950–]
“Our Subdivision
“Pan Man”
“New Terra”
Tololwa M. Mollel [1952–]
”Feasting on Words”
The Orphan Boy
F. B. André [1955–]
“Is There Someone You Can Call?”
Cheryl Foggo [1956–]
“The Kind of Black People That We Are,” from Pourin’ Down Rain
from John Ware Reimagined
Margaret Robinson–Gudmundson [1957–]
“The Severance”
George Bwanika Seremba [1958–]
from Come Good Rain
Suzette Mayr [1967–]
”His Own Ending," from Monoceros
“I Am the Architect of My Life,” from Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall
Minister Faust [1969–]
from The Coyote Kings of the Space–Age Bachelor Pad
from The Alchemists of Kush
Troy Burle Bailey [c.1960s–]
from The Pierre Bonga Loops
Sheila Addiscott [1965–]
“Coloured”
Dawn Carter [1968–]
“Restoration”
A Monumental Love”
“Get into My Car”
Bertrand Bickersteth [1969–]
“I Look at My Hand”
“What We Used to Call It”
“We, Too”
Deanna Bowen [1969–]
“sum of the parts: what can be named”
Valerie Mason–John [1969–]
from Borrowed Body
Wakefield Brewster [1973–]
“Human”
“In Short”
Ian Samuels [1975–]
from The Ubiquitous Big
Various writers
from Black Pioneer Centennial: A Little Taste of Soul (2005)
Kaie Kellough [1975–]
“boy hood dub II”
“night gallery”
from Creole Continuum
from Accordéon
Esi Edugyan [1977–]
“Encountering Aster,” from The Second Life of Samuel Tyne
from Half Blood Blues
Nehal El Hadi [1978–]
“La Puerta”
Nestor Wynrush (Elliott Walsh) [1978–]
“Winnipeg South Blues”
“Ole Mine Town”
Kevan Anthony Cameron (“Scruffmouth”) [1979–]
"I Am a Claim"
Lisa Codrington [1982–]
“The Red Woman”
Michelle Jean–Paul [1985–]
“Learning to Love Me”
Ahmed Ali (“Knowmadic”) [1984–]
“Child Soldier”
Titilope Sonuga [1985–]
from Down to Earth
Marika Schwandt [1985?–]
“Mulatto Nation”
Cadence Weapon (Rollie Pemberton) [1986–]
“Oliver Square”
“House Music”
”How Black?”
Khodi Dill [1987–]
“Atikameksheng
“Grey”
“Ghost of Billie Holiday”
Young Kidd (Frankie Fontaine) [1988–]
“Wonderful Winnipeg”
”Hometown”
Hot Dogg (Mijok Lang [birth date unknown]
“Letter to God”
Miranda Martini [1990–]
“The Drinking Gourd: Three Tales”