Songs, Blood Deep

Songs, Blood Deep"The poems are quiet and powerful, understated and deeply moving." Carter Revard. What flows deep from the heart songs of these poems is Gwen Westerman's proud and profound engagement with and transmission of closely held cultural values of the Dakota people. Originating from the prairies of the Great Plains, this is a collection that affirms a passion for family, community, and the environment. Westerman draws upon both English and the Dakota

Though Reading and Writing the Lakota Language is thorough in its inclusion of conjugation

mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world

and pending legislations—from the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma’s vote in 2007 to expel Cherokee Freedmen to the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization bill—Byrd demonstrates that inclusion into the multicultural cosmopole does not end colonialism as it is purported to do

and environment for the complex and indeterminate future

and the perspective gained from participating in powwows

the nineteenth-century painter whose Native American subjects often regarded his portraits with suspicious wonder

wherever that may be

Christopher Pexa

and now most of us are dead

The author’s personal journey

Joy Harjo has been praised for her "warm

a downright foolish being