Kohkum & me

• Published in: Canadian Theatre Review
• Main Author: Coyote, Zach Running
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) 2021
• Subjects: Visual Arts and Performing Arts; Mi’gmaq
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.186.017; https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.186.017

In Mi’gmaq and many other Turtle Island languages, stories are told from the outside in, circling toward a central point, and when they arrive there, they don’t stop. Our stories are always happening. They didn’t ‘happen’—they are happening and always will be. Zach Running Coyote arrives at this piece from a physical experience of being displaced and the long and awkward road in search of home. It is a reflection through his first play, Kohkum & me, guided by the four directions on the Medicine Wheel and the fragmented memories of both those early writing days and his childhood migrations, attempting to better understand how he became the writer he is.