I think about dreams and how they live on; in images, movies, and in moving and living bodies. In ndn coping mechanisms: notes from the field, billy-ray belcourt uses poetry to navigate indigenous identity. these themes are often rooted in indigenous liberation. one of my favorite poems by joy harjo, anchorage, describes these very sentiments. who would believe the fantastic and terrible story of all of our survival…and know that our dreams don’t end here? i took a photo of my own brother and drew him on the landscape where my family fish every year. i think of my brother and his own dreams and the film BOY. Boy (2003), a film directed by Taika Waititi, is a coming-of-age film about a Māori boy. It is different than most films that include Indigenous narratives. Rather than centering the trauma native peoples have faced in the movie, Taika uses comedy to navigate the themes of loss, adolescence and identity through a Māori boy who is obsessed with Michael Jackson. It’s really beautiful. During the debut of Boy, Taika received criticism in Peter Debruge’s Variety review of the film for its lack of “arthouse ready anthropological edge (2010).” I wanted to capture this sentiment in my zine. The job my siblings and I feel is rooted in liberation and the work we do to protect our waters, our fish and our lands.