Every week we will be sharing new plays by our Heal the Divide playwrights. This week’s play is To History: Two, by Jaisey Bates – an Indigenous-heritaged Planet Nine playwright currently residing (hopefully not for much longer) in La La Land.
TO HISTORY
/ To Whom It 
May Concern.
TWO: War
/ Games
This Letter
was inspired by
a FB friend’s
FB posts re:
a town
with a school
with a Native
mascot.
A town
with a chamber
of commerce whose
leadership set up
“The First Annual
Hunt for the Indian!”
treasure hunt
aiming to encourage
shoppers to Shop Local
during the holidays.
A town
where there was a
massacre of Natives.
A town
where the government
paid bounties for Native
captives, or scalps:
Man.
Woman.
Or child.
SPECIAL THANKS to Amelia Tuplin, Member of the Maine Indigenous Peoples Panel, for her permission to share her eloquent and powerful words with all who read this play.