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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Drew Hayden Taylor's "Take Us To Your Chief."



Drew Hayden Taylor is an award winning playwright, novelist, journalist and filmmaker. Over the years he has done practically everything from stand up comedy at the Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C. to being Artistic Director of Canada's premiere Native theatre company, Native Earth Performing Arts inc. Born and still living on the Curve Lake First Nation, he is celebrating the launch of his 29th book, a collection of Native science fiction short stories titled Take Us To Your Chief and Other Stories.

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But I am no king, no man. It is a role I assumed in serving, with perfect order, those who scarcely saw fit to name me. Wild and shimmering, I hide from myself no longer. I was born twice from death. It is time to mend what was broken, even if they will not.
i am learning my new friend’s language / she said do you want to look for frogs sometime
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