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The poems work towards the assembly of an identity

Morgan's research shows an ecological understanding that sustained Indigenous peoples for thousands of years

Almanac of the Dead land " maple sugar gatherings thatIn its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale. The acclaimed author of Ceremony has undertaken a weaving of ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re create the moral history of the Americas, told from the point of view of the conquered, not the conquerors.