1/25/2020 POETRY: SÂKIHITOWIN AWÂSISto cope it’s all unseasonal rains winter in the Great Lakes these days in niibin the boreal is ablaze the amazon and outback aflame increasing tsunamis and earthquakes and all we can do is yell CLIMATE CHANGE what else do we say? while the US keeps taking brown babies away numbered like the West Bank Bantustans Japanese internment camps Auschwitz the Indian act our migration routes are older than your borders we have cultural items older than your legal orders this is natural law renaissance embodying ancestors’ excellence bringing land back on ready when RCMP attack Unist’ot’en bimaadiziwin resistance is a way of living Sâkihitowin Awâsis is a Michif Anishinaabe two-spirit water protector, geographer, and spoken word artist from the pine marten clan. She has contributed poetry to Forever Loved: Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada, Red Rising Magazine, kimiwan ‘zine, and Introducing Atrocities Against Indigenous Canadians for Dummies. She is continually inspired by acts of decolonization, Indigenous resurgence, and community resistance. Follow @awan.ikwe.
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