Gabrielle Huria is Ngāi Tūāhuriri / Ngāi Tahu. She lives with her extended whānau at Tuahiwi in North Canterbury. Gabrielle is a keen practitioner of Ngāi Tahu mahinga kai (traditional food gathering). This collection of poems is part family chronicle and part a settling of accounts – a depiction of being Ngāi Tahu in a modern world.