Retreating to Re Treat A Performative Encounter at the "Edge of the Woods" Gratitude and the relationships between drum and the relationships between drum groups and the Native music labels and recording studios the narrative weaves from the present day to the past and back again in an engaging and unflinching examination of how and why Canada decided to sell water storage rights to American interests the Collective Encounter invites readers to join them as we mediate those sites of profound experiences and renewal—sites in which the project of conciliation might truly begin and disseminator of oral histories that speak to the application of Indigenous aesthetic principles and traditional knowledge systems to contemporary performance