Introduction
Daniel T. Williams [date unknown –1880]
“Notebook 1872–1875. ” Letter to Hudson’s Bay Company Factor, George Kennedy, April 12, 1873
Dr. Alfred Schmitz Shadd [1870–1915]
“To the Electorate of the District of Kinistino,” 1905 Letters to The Melfort Moon
Mildred Lewis Ware [1871–1905]
Three Letters
William Sylvester Alpheus Beal [1874–1968]
- from Memoir of the Swan River Valley, Manitoba
- 3 Glass–plate photographs
Alice Ethel Lewis [1886–1960]
“In Loving Memory of Alberta”
Jefferson Davis Edwards [1888–1979]
“There Was a Cloud Over Amber Valley,” from The Window of Our Memories
John Bell Bowden [1888–1982]
“Always Be a Factor in the Community!”
Sylvester Long [1890–1932]
- “My Trail Upward,” from Long Lance: The Autobiography of a Blackfoot Indian Chief
- “Canoe Song”
- “Death Song of Long Lance”
Rosa Shannon [c. 1880–1931]
“We Gave Our Lives to This Part of the Country,” from The Window of Our Memories
Martha Edwards [1890–1977]
“That Is What Pioneers Had to Go Through,” from The Window of Our Memories
Amanda Janet (Nettie) Ware [1893–1989]
“John Ware”
E. A. Cobbs [dates unknown]
“This Bias Was Good, for It Caused the Black People to Fight”
Ellis Hooks [1907–1979]
“The Way I Felt, I Wanted to Plead Guilty: I Wanted the World to Know,” from the Provincial Archives of Alberta Oral History Project
Luther Gerard [1914–2004]
“Community Spirit”
Lloyd Mayes [1916–1972?]
“Homebrew,” from North of the Gully
Goldie Gordon [dates unknown]
“Even the Bad Was Good,” from North of the Gully
Gwen Hooks [1918–]
from The Keystone Legacy: Recollections of a Black Settler
Willa R. Dallard [1898–1988]
“Memories of My Father: The Late Willis Bowen of Amber Valley”
Woody Strode [1914–1994]
- “Mixed Breed”
- “A Hero in Dogtown”
Clinton Murphy [1926–2004]
“Ode to the Amber Valley Baseball Team”
Fil Fraser [1932–]
from Alberta’s Camelot: Culture & the Arts in the Lougheed Years
Claire Harris [1937–]
"Backstage at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary,” from She
Addena Sumter–Freitag [1944–]
from Stay Black & Die
Linus Tongwo Asong [1947–2012]
from No Way to Die
Archie Crail [1948–]
“An Election”
Nigel Darbasie [1950–]
- “Our Subdivision
- “Pan Man”
- “New Terra”
Tololwa M. Mollel [1952–]
- ”Feasting on Words”
- The Orphan Boy
F. B. André [1955–]
“Is There Someone You Can Call?”
Cheryl Foggo [1956–]
- “The Kind of Black People That We Are,” from Pourin’ Down Rain
- from John Ware Reimagined
Margaret Robinson–Gudmundson [1957–]
“The Severance”
George Bwanika Seremba [1958–]
from Come Good Rain
Suzette Mayr [1967–]
- ”His Own Ending," from Monoceros
- “I Am the Architect of My Life,” from Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall
Minister Faust [1969–]
- from The Coyote Kings of the Space–Age Bachelor Pad
- from The Alchemists of Kush
Troy Burle Bailey [c. 1960s–]
from The Pierre Bonga Loops
Sheila Addiscott [1965–]
“Coloured”
Dawn Carter [1968–]
- “Restoration”
- A Monumental Love”
- “Get into My Car”
Bertrand Bickersteth [1969–]
- “I Look at My Hand”
- “What We Used to Call It”
- “We, Too”
Deanna Bowen [1969–]
“sum of the parts: what can be named”
Valerie Mason–John [1969–]
from Borrowed Body
Wakefield Brewster [1973–]
Ian Samuels [1975–]
from The Ubiquitous Big
Various writers
from Black Pioneer Centennial: A Little Taste of Soul (2005)
Kaie Kellough [1975–]
- “boy hood dub II”
- “night gallery”
- from Creole Continuum
- from Accordéon
Esi Edugyan [1977–]
- “Encountering Aster,” from The Second Life of Samuel Tyne
- from Half Blood Blues
Nehal El Hadi [1978–]
“La Puerta”
Nestor Wynrush (Elliott Walsh) [1978–]
- “Winnipeg South Blues”
- “Ole Mine Town”
Kevan Anthony Cameron (“Scruffmouth”) [1979–]
"I Am a Claim"
Lisa Codrington [1982–]
“The Red Woman”
Michelle Jean–Paul [1985–]
“Learning to Love Me”
Ahmed Ali (“Knowmadic”) [1984–]
“Child Soldier”
Titilope Sonuga [1985–]
from Down to Earth
Marika Schwandt [1985?–]
“Mulatto Nation”
Cadence Weapon (Rollie Pemberton) [1986–]
- “Oliver Square”
- “House Music”
- ”How Black?”
Khodi Dill [1987–]
- “Atikameksheng
- “Grey”
- “Ghost of Billie Holiday”
Young Kidd (Frankie Fontaine) [1988–]
- “Wonderful Winnipeg”
- ”Hometown”
Hot Dogg (Mijok Lang [birth date unknown]
“Letter to God”
Miranda Martini [1990–]
“The Drinking Gourd: Three Tales”
