How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems Wet'suwet'en Lewis combines years of researching

Lewis combines years of researching historical documents and collecting oral stories

/ always our stories stayed alive through retelling

Tessa asks Kohkom to teach her beading

the family genealogy

How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems Wet'suwet'en Lewis combines years of researchingThe latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas. In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Snchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico. Her paced, steely lyrics fuse cosmology, lineage, feminism, and environmental activism into a singular body of work that stands for the self and the collective in the same instant. I am woman