Description:
This textured collection of essays by Indigenous contributors from across Turtle Island and beyond illuminates stories, dialogues and curations invoked through the idea of home-lands, waters and relations.
Brief description:
waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy is Ojibwe from Bawating Sault Ste. Marie and Lac Seul First Nation in Northwestern Ontario. Her mother is Mary Chisel-ban, and her father is Jim Hammond from Bell Island, Newfoundland. The mother of a young adult bear and human to a beloved cat with many sweet nicknames, she enjoys photography, following social media content creators, visiting with friends and getting to know family members. Living now in lək̓ʷəŋən territory, she is thrilled to be able throw herself into the winter Salish Sea during the occasional perimenopausal moment. Presently writing a monograph about Anishinaabeg "at the boiling place" - the sugar bush - she has also been published in various literary journals with her most recent poem, "persons on the side of the road," being published in a special issue of the Great Lakes Review (2023). The fact is the pandemic snatched her literary verve and it's taking its time returning.