rise red river

Tara Beagan’s Governor General’s Award-winning Rise, Red River is a multilingual vision of Indigenous survivance

“A big part of what I consider this writing to be is an honoring of ancestors that I will never meet in person,” says Beagan. “[That includes Indigenous] ancestors who [may only be] distantly related to me, or not actually bloodline-related to me at all, because it feels like we have to do that wherever we are in this colonized nation."