Waking ground

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Title:

Waking ground

Author:

Joudry, Shalan, 1979- author.

Publication Date:

2020

Publication Information:

Kentville, Nova Scotia : Gaspereau Press, Printers & Publishers, 2020.

Physical Description:

75 pages ; 22 cm

ISBN:

9781554472130

Abstract:

Waking Ground connects the social and ecological challenges our communities face with the unresolved legacy of Canada’s settlement and its ongoing impact on the lives of Indigenous people. Attuned to language, landscape, and legacy, Shalan Joudry’s insightful and candid poems bring forward stories that speak to the resilience of Mi’kmaw culture and the collective work of healing and reconciliation that lies before us all.--Page 4 of cover.

General Note:

Poems.

Contents:

Here -- Poems and streams -- Topkwanamuksi -- Rock saplings -- Sipu'l -- Lake pines -- How not to get lost -- When it rains -- Sweetgrassing -- Plamu'k -- Transgenerational carvings -- Harvestmen -- Other casualties -- Insomniac's trilogy -- Tremors -- No goodbye for bones -- Where were you then? -- Kaktukopnji'jk -- Riling up air -- Lagoon hair -- Dust -- Waiting for monarchies -- Ceremony for the end of day -- Qalipu migration -- Apuknajit -- Digits -- Wiklatmu'jk -- Institutions -- Place -- Raising forests -- More -- Finding bone needles -- Depths -- E'se'kati -- Slow walking -- Kitpu'k -- Carrying water -- Nestuita'si -- Rising -- Journeying -- Train tracks and pipelines -- Unfolding of blankets -- Maize wall is -- Smoke signals -- Grounded -- Tending the fire -- Siwkw -- Rebirth -- Wela'lioq -- Notes.

Conference Subject:

Indigenous Voices Awards (2021) -- Nominee.

Subject Term:

Indigenous authors.

Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Poetry.

Mi'kmaq -- Canada -- Poetry.

Mi'kmaq women -- Canada -- Poetry.

Indigenous women -- Canada -- Poetry.

Ethnoecology -- Canada -- Poetry.

Traditional ecological knowledge -- Canada -- Poetry.

Indigenous peoples -- Land tenure -- Canada -- Poetry.

Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Ethnic identity -- Poetry.