Salt Baby

Falen Johnson

Image | BOOK COVER: Salt Baby by Falen Johnson

Caption: (J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing)

Growing up on the Six Nations native reserve, Salt Baby never quite fit in, as a "white" looking "Indian" — fair skin and curly hair made her more of a Shirley Temple type than a Pocahontas type. Salt Baby navigates the native reserve and the city while explaining herself, as well as her blood quantrum, to the world and to "Alligator" — "It's always different for Indians." (J. Gordon Shillingford)