Once the Smudge is Lit 2014 Life against States of Emergency

Life against States of Emergency seeks to cultivate democratic dialogue about environmental justice

a professor of religion at the University of Maine

Teaching Western ideas and punishing children speaking their own languages

and resistance that reveals how

Organized into four key sections: Context

Once the Smudge is Lit 2014 Life against States of EmergencyWritten by Kelsey Borgford, a Nbisiing Nishnaabekwe from the Marten clan, and Cole Forrest an Ojibwe filmmaker and programmer from Nipissing First Nation. Illustrated by: Tessa Pizzale, a Moose Cree Indigenous Artist located in North Bay, Ontario. Ceremony, community and connection the poems of Once the Smudge is Lit carry the reader into deeply spiritual elements of Nishnaabe Ojibwe culture. Co written by Cole Forrest and Kelsey Borgford, the poetry