To fill this void

the first boy whose body was found in the water

and through rapturous descriptions of winter landscapes and steaming meals

and assimilation: a necessary antidote to the conventional history of the Americas

Rashid Khalidi

Chasing Painted Horses traditional tales To fill this voidWhen Ralph Thomas comes across graffiti of a horse in an alleyway in the early hours of the morning, he is stopped in his tracks. He recognizes this horse. A half asleep Indigenous homeless man sees Ralph's reaction to the horse and calls out to him. Over the course of a morning's worth of hot coffee on a bitterly cold day, Ralph and the homeless man talk and Ralph remembers a troubling moment from his childhood when an odd little girl, Danielle, drew