I Am A Body of Land Featured New Releases and transform political communities

and transform political communities

and illustrated by Jonathan Thunder

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The reader follows the daily life of 9-year-old Omakayas and her extended family during the yearly cycle of activities in 1849

and an afterword

I Am A Body of Land Featured New Releases and transform political communitiesEdited, and with an Introduction, by Lee Maracle. If poetry is a place to question, I Am a Body of Land by Shannon Webb Campbell, who is descended from Mikmaq people from the Qalipu First Nation in Newfoundland, is an attempt to explore a relationship to poetic responsibility and accountability, and frame poetry as a form of re visioning. Here Webb Campbell revisits the text of her earlier work Who Took My Sister? to examine her self, her place and