Crazy Brave

Crazy BraveA spiritual coming of age memoir from a poet praised for her "breathtaking complex witness and world remaking language" (Adrienne Rich). In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her

and by her teen years she was alcoholic herself

(50 Dialogues) with companion audio CD

Signaled panic

Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil

Long Soldier sutures found language with her own lyrically stark diction

Blackfoot is not usually written in syllabics

And this is the remarkable story of Sharice Davids' path to Congress

the author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale of a tragic accident

self-determination

The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples

this updated and expanded American edition helps us better understand legacy

and the Métis and First Nations of the Northwest face hunger and uncertainty as their traditional way of life is threatened