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I am a 3rd year PhD candidate and scholar of Indigenous literatures. I am Anishinaabe (Sauilteaux) and my family became “non-status” in their denial of the Indian Act a few generations ago. My mother moved to the city of Thunder Bay as a teen from an area in east central Saskatchewan known as “Greenbush,” where our family had made life in the shrinking spaces between town and reserve until they no longer could. I am first generation urban and my work considers how language and story influence belonging in the city among those who otherwise lack intimacy with the homelands of their caregivers.