Physician writes the realities that Indigenous youth live with

By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Samantha Erron Gibbon admits she didn’t set out to write a collection of short stories for youth, but “then it came about that the stories I was writing were youth oriented.” The four short stories and one long poem that comprise Gibbon’s debut collection At Ends We Rest are powerful, sad and hopeful. And realistic, she stresses. “Unfortunately, our lives are touched by loss, and our lives are touched by the MMIWG (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls) tragedies and by addiction,” said Gibbon, a Métis-Cree physician from Edmonton. “If I weren’t to depict those in our stories, I’d be taking away from not only the reality of what my youth have to live with and what we have to deal…

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