Cut to Fortress Cayuga Carey Price

Carey Price

Alex Werier

Woodland Cultural Centre is honoured to recognize Elizabeth Doxtater as the recipient of the 2026 Thomas V

She is an assistant professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan and has contributed to American Indian Quarterly and BC Studies

Finalist for 2018 Toronto Book Award

Cut to Fortress Cayuga Carey PriceCut to Fortress by Tawahum Bige, a Lutselke Dene, Plains Cree poet who resides on unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil Waututh territory (Vancouver) is a debut poetry collection confronting colonialism, relationships, grief and intergenerational wounds. Cut to Fortress considers the possibility of decolonization through a personal lens, urging for a resistance that is tied using cord and old growth tree roots; a resistance that tethers us all