Petra: In Memory Serves (2015), Lee Maracle, an Indigenous Canadian writer and academic of the Stó꞉ lō nation, reminds us that “How we see the world and the power we have to intervene in the way we see ourselves is dependent upon the lens through which we view our mythology in the current context”(p. 89). At present, I find myself situated in the cultural, historical and political context of British Columbia, as a white woman settled uninvited on the shared, traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking q̓ ícə̓ y̓ (Katzie), SEMYOME (Semiahmoo), Kwantlen First Nations and other Coast Salish Peoples (Musqueam, Qayqayt, Kwikwetlem and others would have used the Fraser River), who have been the stewards of this land since time immemorial. As a South Slav woman, my memories, stories, and rituals, all encoded in another language, have no intimate or temporal ties to the land I occupy now. Although we don’t often speak of the indigenous people of Europe, and rightly so, my ancestral mythologies and stories belong to the peoples of the Balkan region, an area often referred to as “Wild Europe”(Jezernik). My grandmothers tell me stories of their grandmother’s mothers, who were displaced, dispossessed and stripped of their local religions, their labour, their children. Forced to speak in tongues not their own, they nursed