Through readings of a wide range of northeastern texts -- including Puritan captivity narratives, Wabanaki wampum belts, and contemporary Innu poetry -- Rachel Bryant shows how colonized and Indigenous environments occupy the same geographical areas while occupying distinct epistemological worlds. Her analyses call for a vital and unprecedented process of listening to the stories that Indigenous peoples have been telling about this continent for centuries. And in 'The homing place', Bryant heeds her own advice. She creates a model for listening and for incorporating those stories.