Carrying the Burden of Peace: Reimagining Indigenous Masculinities Through Story

Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities be an honor song-one that celebrates, rather than pathologizes; one that seeks diversity and strength; one that overturns heteropatriarchy without centering settler colonialism? Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities even be creative, inclusive, erotic?

Sam McKegney answers affirmatively. Countering the perception that masculinity has been so contaminated as to be irredeemable, the book explores Indigenous literary art ...