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Bright Morning Stars

Will You Miss Me? A Dossier on The Hinterlands





“Bright Morning Stars” is a spiritual that moved through several communities and appeared in hymnals in the 1850s. –Liza Bielby, The Hinterlands


Read next: Transcript of the final scene of the play, as part of “Will You Miss Me? A Dossier on The Hinterlands”


The Hinterlands, Will You Miss Me?, performed by Liza Bielby, Livia Chesley, Jenna Kirk, and Richard Newman at Tympanum (Warren, Michigan), 2022. Filmed by Adam Sekuler.



Founded in 2020, Three Fold is an independent quarterly based in Detroit that presents exploratory points of view on arts, culture, and society in addition to original works in various media, including visual art, literature, film and the performing arts. We solicit and commission contributions from artists, writers, and activists around the world. Three Fold is a publication of Trinosophes Projects, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization located in the historic Eastern Market neighborhood in downtown Detroit. Click here to check out Three Fold’s events page and view a schedule of the publication’s on-site activities.

Three Fold recognizes, supports, and advocates for the sovereignty of Michigan’s twelve federally-recognized Indian nations, for historic Indigenous communities in Michigan, for Indigenous individuals and communities who live here now, and for those who were forcibly removed from their Homelands. We operate on occupied territories called Waawiiyaataanong, named by the Anishinaabeg and including the Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe (Chippewa), Odawa (Ottawa), and Bodewatomi (Potawatomi) peoples. We hold to commit to Indigenous communities in Waawiiyaataanong, their elders, both past and present, and future generations.