Showing Mother/ Land by Cheryl Savageau

In "Mother/Land", Savageau weaves traditional, personal and family stories, with stories of colonization and resistance, revealing a landscape of trees, ponds, rivers and mountains rich in meaning for Abenaki people. Mother/Land is beaded with gems from her mother's jewel box-poems that tell stories of her mother's life and death, and the complexities of love and survival.