Spawn dance and current environmental and land

and current environmental and land management issues

colorful illustrations from Kim Smith

reservation Indians and urban Indians

he analyzes the historical context and choices that enabled some Indian communities to avoid relocation west of the Mississippi River

Other Ojibway words and names appear in the text

Spawn dance and current environmental and landSpawn is a braided collection of brief, untitled poems, a coming of age lyric set in the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on the shores of Lake Piekuakami (Saint Jean) in Quebec. Undeniably political, Marie Andre Gill's poems ask: How can one reclaim a narrative that has been confiscated and distorted by colonizers? The poet's young avatar reaches new levels on Nintendo, stays up too late online, wakes to her period on class photo day, and carves her lovers'