I Am A Body of Land Featured New Releases and an afterword

and an afterword

The reader follows the daily life of 9-year-old Omakayas and her extended family during the yearly cycle of activities in 1849

Canadian events depicted include the Oka crisis in 1990

and transform political communities

Inspired by traditional Wabanaki stories

I Am A Body of Land Featured New Releases and an afterwordEdited, and with an Introduction, by Lee Maracle. If poetry is a place to question, I Am a Body of Land by Shannon Webb Campbell, who is descended from Mikmaq people from the Qalipu First Nation in Newfoundland, is an attempt to explore a relationship to poetic responsibility and accountability, and frame poetry as a form of re visioning. Here Webb Campbell revisits the text of her earlier work Who Took My Sister? to examine her self, her place and