Crushed Wild Mint Cayuga Hayden King

Hayden King

traditional knowledge keepers

The volume connects two disciplines and strands of scholarship: German Studies and Indigenous Studies

and the indispensable correlation of land consciousness and food consciousness

Crushed Wild Mint Cayuga Hayden KingJess Housty ('Cagilkv) is a parent, writer and grassroots activist with Heiltsuk (Indigenous) and mixed settler ancestry. Crushed 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