This long-awaited first collection by playwright and director Alanis King presents three exciting plays interconnected by themes of hope: <ul>spiritual (<i>If Jesus Met Nanabush</i>), <br>personal (<i>The Tommy Prince Story</i>) and <br>cultural (<i>Born Buffalo</i>).</ul><p>When Jesus turns up at the Champion of Champions Pow-Wow, the first person he meets is Nanabush. Together they form an odd pair. Nanabush is earthy, irascible, fun-loving.Jesus is formal, introverted, a fish out of water.However, as they venture across the back roads, bars and bus depots of Turtle Island, the two will discover that they are not so different after all.<p>Merging Native and Western traditions, <i>If Jesus Met Nanabush</i> is a thought-provoking and often hilarious cosmological First Contact story.<p><i>The Tommy Prince Story</i> an emotionally charged drama that brings to light the incredible life and times of the great Saulteaux warrior. As Drew Hayden Taylor concluded: 'This is Alanis at her finest.'<p>The final play is the lively <i>Born Buffalo</i> which will take the reader back into the mystical age of the buffalo alongside fraternal twins magically transformed into bison.