and becoming involved in the burgeoning indigenous food sovereignty movement

revealing a viable and sustainable center for Anishinaabeg Studies

What to do the first time a baby is brought into a ceremonial dance

and histories

and of the heartbreaking loss of Eddie Aikau in a courageous effort to save his crewmates when Hōkūle'a capsized in a raging storm

Crushed Wild Mint gardening and becoming involved in theCrushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom, deeply rooted to the poets motherland and their experience as a parent, herbalist and careful observer of the patterns and power of their territory. Jess Housty grapples with the natural and the supernatural, transformation and the hard work of living that our bodies are doingheld by mountains, by oceans, by ancestors and by the grief and love that come with