"[1] It was later included in So Long Been Dreaming, an anthology of postcolonial science fiction and fantasy edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan.
[2] Eden Robinson wrote "Terminal Avenue" "in Vancouver, Canada on the number 9 Broadway bus between Commercial and the University of British Columbia" on the third anniversary of the Oka Uprising.
The conflict escalated to the point of gun battles between activists and provincial forces, resulting in one fatality (a QP corporal).
There, his lover (unnamed but marked as white), together with others dressed in security officer uniforms, performs sadomasochistic acts on him for an audience.
In a past timeframe, the reader is told about Wil's father holding an illegal potlatch before being removed from the Douglas Channel area to the urban reservation.