Johnson, daughter of a Mohawk chief and an English mother, opens her first book with dramatic ballads in Indigenous voices: Ojistoh, the Mohawk wife who outwits her captors; “The Cattle Thief”; and “A Cry from an Indian Wife”. Lyrics of canoeing and campfires in Muskoka complete the collection.
The debut of Canada’s celebrated performer-poet, powerful in its defence of her people. Download the free EPUB.