Rosie is preparing to dance in her first pow wow, but after Nookomis tells her the origin story of jingle dancing, she worries that she’s not as ready as she thought she was. The drums are calling, but will Rosie answer them?

Shaelyn Johnston is an award-winning, Anishinaabe and Irish-Canadian writer from Vancouver, BC. She writes predominantly for screen but also enjoys creative non-fiction, and uses both genres as a way to explore her culture and the relationships we have with one another. In 2015, she was a recipient of the Governor General’s History Award for her short story, ‘Anishinaabemowin’. Since then, she has written for the web series, ‘Fierce Girls’ and the second season of ‘Coyote Science’ (APTN). In 2019, she won first place in Room Magazine’s Creative Non-Fiction Contest for ‘Back Home’ (to be published in 2020) and recently completed her short film, “The Healing Dance” through Telus Storyhive’s Indigenous Storytellers Edition. She is currently an MFA student in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.