A healing time / SkyBlue Mary Morin -- Idle no more: The winter we danced / The Kino-nda-nimi collective -- First beats -- Come my way / Tara Williamson -- #IdleNoMore in historical context / Glen Coulthard -- Why are we idle no more? / Pamela Palmater -- Occupy(ed) Canada: The political economy of Indigenous dispossession / Shiri Pasternak -- Decolonizing together: Moving beyond a politics of solidarity toward a practice of decolonization / Harsha Walia -- Harper launches mayor First Nations termination plan: As negotiating tables legitimize Canada's colonialism / Russell Diabo -- Armed with nothing more than a song and a drum: Idle no more / Sylvia McAdam (Saysewahum) -- "Our people were glowing": An interview with Tanya Kappo / Tanya Kappo with Hayden King -- The Idle No More manifesto / Jessica Gordon & the founders of Idle No More -- "Our people are frustrated": An interview with Chief Isadore Day / Ryan McMahon and Wab Kinew with Chief Isadore Day -- Ghosts of Indigenous activism past, present, future: #IdleNoMore's transformative potential / Hayden King -- Transforming unity: An interview with Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs grand Chief Derek Nepinak / Derek Nepinak with Leah Gazan -- Idle no more: Re-storying Canada / Sheelah McLean -- Idle No More is not just an "Indian thing" / Wab Kinew -- The round dance revolution: Idle No More / Ryan McMahon -- Kisikew Iskwew, the woman spirit / Nina Wilson -- What if Natives stop subsidizing Canada? / Dru Oja Jay -- We are free human beings, part one / Lori M. Mainville -- "Give people a hub": An interview with Jarrett Martineau / Jarrett Martineau with Stephen Hui -- Revolutionary acts of non-violence disempowers opposition / Waneek Horn-Miller -- The white paper and the Idle No More movement / Dale Turner -- Singers and dancers -- Nothing will ever be the same: Idle No More / Neal McLeod -- Canada, it's time. We need to fix this in our generation. / Chelsea Vowel -- "Waking up to the beauty": An interview with Chickadee Richard / Chickadee Richard with Leah Gazan -- Everything you do is political, you're Anishinaabe. Or, what Idle No More is to me / Ryan McMahon -- Why First Nations movement is our best chance for clean land and water / Winona LaDuke -- Dancing in a mall / Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair -- We Natives are deeply divided. There's nothing wrong with that / Hayden King -- #IdleNoMore provides us with opportunity to examine nationhood / Tara Williamson -- Fish broth & fasting / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -- Day 38 / Ellen Gabriel -- The sucker punch of January 11 / Alo White -- Reclaiming ourselves one name at a time / Christi Belcourt -- No more / Plex (D. Bedard) -- "The megaphone girl": An interview with Jenna (Liiciious) Wirch / Jenna Wirch with Leah Gazan -- The unravelling of a colonized mind / Jana-Rae Yerxa -- Silence is not our mother tongue: Madwewewin, the first taste of sound / Lesley Belleau -- How do you say idle no more in Anishinaabemowin? / Melody McKiver -- My grandfather, my role model / Cara Mumford -- We hold our hands up: On Indigenous women's love and resistance / Dory Nason -- More than a poster campaign: redefining colonial violence / Sarah Hunt -- "I have waited 40 years for this. Keep it going and don't stop!": An interview with Siku Allooloo / Siku Allooloo with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -- Idle No More rules for all eternity forever and ever Tapwe and amen Mahsi cho! / Richard Van Camp -- Scapegoat for a movement? / Ethan Cox -- Nishiyuu walkers: In restlessness, there is power / Paul Seesequasis -- Friendships -- Blind justice / Lee Maracle -- Why Idle No More is gaining strength, and why all Canadians should care / Jeff Denis -- Awake, hungry, and Idle No More / Naomi Klein -- Q opening essay / Jian Ghomeshi & Matt Tunnacliffe -- #IdleNoMore: Settler responsibility for relationship / Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox -- Letter to Chief Theresa Spence Canadian union of postal workers -- I am Canadian! (Because of the treaties with Indigenous Nations) / Toby Rollo -- Academics in solidarity with Chief Spence and Idle No More open letter to the Right Honourable Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper and the Right Honourable Governor General David Johnston -- Idle no more: A profound social movement that is already succeeding / Judy Rebick -- #Ottawapiskat / Compiled by Hayden King -- Image warriors / Curated by Wanda Nanibush -- There is hope, if we rise #1-12 / Sonny Assu -- Round dance / Nathalie Bertin -- Idle No More 11 / David Garneau -- Restless / David Garneau -- Canadian flag -- David Garneau -- Hunting windigo / LauraLee K Harris -- Oh Kanata, we are / LauraLee K Harris -- Spiritual awakening / LauraLee K Harris -- Still wading - Erin Konsmo -- Traplines not pipelines / Erin Konsmo -- Land body conquest / Erin Konsmo -- Idle No More Toronto / Tannis Nielsen -- Bill C45 / Tannis Nielsen -- Parliament Hill / Tannis Nielsen -- Nation to nation now / Tannis Nielsen -- Omnibus / Michael Wesley -- Water walk / Tannis Nielsen -- Friendships (Continued) -- The terms of engagement with Indigenous nationhood / Eric Ritskes -- White noise / Shane Rhodes -- Letter to Prime Minister Harper from Indigenous women of Turtle Island / Indigenous women of Turtle Island -- Indigenous journalists need apply: #IdleNoMore and the #MSM / Waubgeshig Rice -- The words we have inherited / Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair -- Wa'tkwanonwerá:ton Akwé:kon Tetewá:nera - Greetings all my relations / Ellen Gabriel -- Kaa Maamdaa Geyabi Baabiinchigeying, no longer are we waiting! / Miskwaasining Nagamojig (swamp singers) -- Canadian artists statement of solidarity with Idle No More -- Déclaration de solidarité des artistes Canadiens avec le mouvement idle no more -- J28 / Rita Wong -- Idle No More organizers reach out to queer community / Laura Zahody -- Idle No More, the black experience, and why it is that what we say about others reveals so much about ourselves / Daniel Tseghay -- Idle No More: Where the mainstream media went wrong / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -- As long as the water never idles: Movement in Grassy Narrows First Nation / Ryan Duplassie -- New directions -- His feast: Her broken fast / Rosanna Deerchild -- Idle No More: Where do we go from here? / Chelsea Vowel -- Resetting and restoring the relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canada / Taiaiake Alfred and Toby Rollo -- Seeing strength, beauty & resilience in ourselves: An interview with Eugene Boulanger / Eugene Boulanger with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -- First Nations: working towards fundamental change / Chief Theresa spence and supporters -- Miigwetch, thank you, Chief Spence / Wab Kinew -- Idle No More: A revolutionary love song / Alex Wilson -- The Ogimaa Mikana project / The Ogimaa Mikana collective: Susan Blight, Hayden King, Connor Pion, Alex McKay, Craig Tough, and Julia Hepburn -- After the rallies: Where do we go from here? / Michael Redhead Champagne -- Through our eyes - Who leads? / Mary Ellen Turpel Lafond -- Idle No More: strong hearts of Indigenous women's leadership / Wanda Nanibush -- We are free human beings, part two / Lori M. Mainville -- Idle No More and Indigenous nationhood / Taiaiake Alfred -- Pauwauwaein: Idle No More to the Indigenous nationhood movement / Lesley Belleau -- Indigenous nationhood movement - Statement of principles -- Idle No More solidarity spring: A call to action / Idle No More and defenders of the land -- The PKOLS reclamation: saturating our land with stories / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -- The movement that shook the Indigenous globe / Andrea Landry -- The rise of the Native rights-based strategic framework: Our last best hope to save our water, air, and Earth / Clayton Thomas-Muller -- This is a ceremony / Tara Williamson -- Timeline -- Timeline of major events spanning the winter we danced -- Note on the proceeds from the winter we danced -- Native youth sexual health network statement & resources on recent sexual assault in Thunder Bay in support of Indigenous women in Idle No More and all survivors of violence -- Biographies of contributors.