McCoy invites readers to consider ongoing patterns of Indigenous resistance and the possibilities for bending federal systems toward community well-being

and of the heartbreaking loss of Eddie Aikau in a courageous effort to save his crewmates when Hōkūle'a capsized in a raging storm

Following the politics of gender

reminding us of the ways in which our food nurtures and heals us

and becoming involved in the burgeoning indigenous food sovereignty movement

Crushed Wild Mint gardening McCoy invites readers to considerCrushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom, deeply rooted to the poets motherland and their experience as a parent, herbalist and careful observer of the patterns and power of their territory. Jess Housty grapples with the natural and the supernatural, transformation and the hard work of living that our bodies are doingheld by mountains, by oceans, by ancestors and by the grief and love that come with