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Presents a speech by Canadian author and poet Robert Bringhurst presented at the First Nations House of Learning, University of British Columbia on February 6, 2004. Pains encountered by artist Bill Reid in his life; Information on the Haida portrait mask made by Reid which is on display at the Museum of Anthropology in Montreal; Background on how Reid learned the language of the Haida art.

The article presents profile of poets including Robert Bringhurst and Tim Lilburn and their poetries including "New World Suite No. 3" and "Assiniboia: Two Choral Performances and a Masque." It mentions that both the poems are based on exploitation and abuse of Indigenous peoples and argues that mourning is an ethical response to colonialism in North America It also mentions about inequities and injustices of colonialism.

Replies to Robert Bringhurst, commenting on polyphony. Definition of natural polyphony in `Wisdom of the Mythtellers,'; Discussion on Bringhurst's essays.