Hyperboreal

HyperborealHyperboreal originates from diasporas. It attempts to make sense of change and to prepare for cultural, climate, and political turns that are sure to continue. The poems originate from the hope that our lives may be enriched by the expression of and reflection on the cultural strengths inherent to indigenous culture. It concerns King Island, the ancestral home of the author's family until the federal government's Bureau of Indian Affairs forcibly and

from Pentecostal Peyotists to Sun-Dancing Catholics to tongues-speaking Baptists in the sweat lodge

and botanical information she shares in Plants Have So Much to Give Us

and intelligence to develop culturally specific decolonization strategies for their own communities and thereby systematically pursue their own liberation

a matching activity

but the concept is hardly new: Indigenous peoples have always made the most of nature’s gifts

and landscape of the earth reveal a land that has never stopped brimming with beauty

Black humor mingles with magic

Foreword by Winona Laduke

but this respect does not come easily or naturally

twelve-year-old nephew Zeus

as a leader of the American Indian Movement

Employing humor as an act of resistance