Whereas

WhereasWHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Dont worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Din, her fathers language.

WHEREAS is an ambitious

and Alice Fletcher's 1887 report

or Muskrat

a home for his family—which includes Eva and four sons—and a singing club consisting of the best voices in town

the seductive energy of the animal world

and revealing the extraordinary lives it has touched and defined

people get into and out of trouble

Every sense is amplified as the poems

Translation and music by Susan Aglukark

Aimée Craft affirms the importance of understanding an Indigenous perspective on treaties in this evocative book that is essential for readers of all ages

She navigates two worlds—that of her own tribe

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist