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Who We Are

Ojistoh Publishing is a very small independent Indigenous owned publishing label. Started in May 2020 on the Six Nations territory of the Grand River, the new label promotes itself with the tagline “Indigenous Publishing, Indigenous People.” Ojistoh, is a Mohawk word translating to “white star” or “shiny star” and is also the title of a poem written by Mohawk poetess E. Pauline Johnson included in her White Wampum  collection. Ojistoh released its first book, Ego of a Nation in the spring of 2020 which is a self-produced collection of poems by owner Janet Rogers. This is Janet’s 7th published collection and was published through her label as a way to introduce the new publishing house publicly which proved to be a great success considering the challenging times globally. Ojistoh Publishing will release their next title “Memory Keeper”, a collection of short memoirs by Dawn Cheryl Hill in April 2021. 

 

About

Janet has been appointed McMaster University’s Writer in Residence 2020 - 2021. She has returned to her home territory of Six Nations Ontario where she continues to write and support other Six Nations writers through publishing and literary events. During her term as the University of Alberta’s Writer in Residence (2018 -2019) she penned a new manuscript The Ego of a Nation and continued to develop a new book project titled The New Legends of Vancouver inspired by the original Legends of Vancouver (self-published 1912) featuring Northwest Coast Indigenous legends as told to and interpreted by Mohawk poet E. Pauline Johnson. Janet continues to fold her work into audio recordings, performance art and media pieces. 

Contributors

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Ojistoh Publishing is very grateful for support from the Ontario Arts Council through the Arts Response Initiative Program in the creation of the Ojistoh Publishing website. Our website will assist us to support Indigenous authors and arts creators.