ALT [page 5] [This page is made of three sheets of tracing paper, layered on top of one another.] [top layer:] 40 Summer Stories 144 Resistance Stories What rightful place does this story occupy? What would happen if it did not matter? our task is not simply to tell better stories about the North but rather to intervene in the structures of dispossession and domination that are made sensible, legible, and possible by the stories we tell. [middle layer image: a map of the Athabasca River between Athabasca Landing and McMurray, depicting a series of rapids leading up to McMurray: Grand Rapid, Brûle Rapid, Boiler, Middle, Long Crooked, Stony, Little Cascade, Big Cascade, Mountain, and Moberly. Two illustrations depict voyageurs steering scows along the river and through rapids.] [bottom layer:] first important shipment [barely legible]

ALT [page 10] [The words of this concrete, found-text poem move in horizontal steps across the page, to imitate both the steps taken by the trackers and the flow of the river. Some text is cut off and/or overlaps. The lines can be read in any order. Hereafter I will call this “tracking format”] - 10 - It is not my intention to emphasize the difficulties encountere over a period of many years in a fly-infested country, on many streams, in timbered or burned over areas, and on almost limitless muskeg.

ALT It was also an immutable custom that they be provided with moccasins and tobacco and I had therefore laid in a gunny sack full of each at a cost of $38.00. However, on reaching Ottawa Department of Government declined to remunerate me for the cost of the mocassins and tobacco (The — — dirty swine. an indulgent and grateful [The words “an immutable custom” are underlined, and “(The — — dirty swine” appear in cursive handwriting.]