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Linoleum Roll

This is a symbol of home. It is the object that the author's great-great-grandmother always took with her, creating a home wherever she went in her travels up and down Skagit River.

Sasha Doll

This object is a symbol of the lack of Indigenous representation. The author's grandmother ordered it from Germany. The author was obsessed with it as a child, but dropped and broke it.

Little Boats

This is a symbol of trauma. It is the image that decorated the wallpaper of the trailer where the author was assaulted, and it inspired the title of her essay on the subject.

The Shed

This is the place where Comptia was forced to live during her marriage to the Scottish captain. It represents the violent separation of Indigenous peoples from their land, language, and traditions.

Skagit River

This represents the ancestral power of healing. It was the...

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