Màgòdiz

MàgòdizMgdiz (Anishinabemowin, Algonquin dialect): a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of their country. Everything that was green and good is gone, scorched away by a war that no one living remembers. The small surviving human population scavenges to get by; they cannot read or write and lack the tools or knowledge to rebuild. The only ones with any power are the mindless Enforcers, controlled by the

whose family lives on the fringe of society and struggles to survive in a hostile world that shuns and fears them

but it is important to carry on

watch an injured Dwight D

“…[a] meditative

knowledge is shared and culture is practiced

Midge weaves short

and hope after experiencing the traumas of miscarriage and infant loss

to explain Indian defeat and celebrate indigenous prehistory

he explores how the depredations of each era spawned new modes of survival

Moses (Amik) Beaver is from the isolated fly-in community of Nibinamik

as Andres Resendez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other Slavery

The poems work towards the assembly of an identity