The Effects of Settler Colonialism on Indigenous Self Identity, Culture, Family and Land Connection

An Analysis of Brandi Birds “I Am Still Too Much”

Source: “Headshot” Brandi Bird on UBC

Poetic Devices in “I am Still Too Much”

“I am a stone mausoleum

with a rough lip asking my Dad to teach

me anishinaabemowin. He tries

and in the silence my syllables skip like stones off of Lake Manitoba

and my Dad’s hand on my back

says Some day. (Bird 9).”

“She takes handfuls of soft

moss growing …

and throws it to the sky./

It settles itself to the ground…/

Mother is a place

where black is like turned dirt

where heartier plants will root, deep

and erosive as birth, as being,

always alive” (Bird 17).

Source: “I Am Still Too Much” on Rahila’s Ghost Press

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RU M.A. candidate | intersectional feminist | Canadian Guyanese | book lover | she/her