The arts have always functioned as a means of resistance, a way of pushing back against established authority or traditions, challenging us to think and act in new ways.

Janet Marie Rogers is a Mohawk poet currently living at the Six Nations Reserve outside Brantford Ontario. She is a writer and artist, the author of poetry including her most recent work, Ego of a Nation. Janet is currently the writer in residence at McMaster University.

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