Born in 1936 on Fort George Island in Eeyou Istchee, Sam-Cromarty is the daughter of hunters and trappers, a residential school survivor, a mother and grandmother, and a poet and painter. In 1980, during the first phase of Hydro-Qu�bec’s James Bay project, she and the other residents of Fort George were forced to relocated to the newly created village of Chisasibi. This event informed much of her writing, in which she documented family and community life, and her experiences of the land both before and after the relocation.

Throughout the 1990s, Sam-Cromarty regularly contributed to the Cree magazine The Nation and published three books: James Bay Memoirs: A Cree Woman’s Ode to her Homeland in 1992, L�gendes et po�mes indiens / Indian Legends and Poems in 1996, and Contes et po�mes cris / Cree Poems and Stories in 2000. Gathered for the first time in this volume, and accompanied by a new interview with the author, as well as a contextualizing essay by editors Isabella Huberman and �lise Couture-Grondin, these writings are a testament to her role in keeping Eeyou culture and knowledge alive. Truthful, poignant, and playful, Margaret Sam-Cromarty’s life’s work is a remarkable contribution to Indigenous literatures in Qu�bec and Canada.

About the Authors

Born on Fort George Island, Margaret Sam-Cromarty is a renowned Eeyou poet in Eeyou Istchee. She has published three books and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cree Native Arts and Crafts Association in 2021.

Originally from Montreal, Isabella Huberman is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. She researches rivers in Indigenous literatures.

�lise Couture-Grondin lives in Tio’ti�:ke (colonially known as Montreal). She teaches and researches Indigenous literatures and life writing.

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