Perfidia

PerfidiaSky Hopinka's Perfidia moves within the textured landscape of memory, both personal and collective, to address the founding colonial violence of the United States and its lasting impact. In a series of cantos, the book length poem surfaces a first person narrative amidst the stream of history and its accounting through the voices of ancestors and kin. Shifting registers between the embodied and the spiritual, Perfidia's subjective syntax destabilizes

this unprecedented volume tracks how massacres

Native families from Nations across the continent gather at the Dance for Mother Earth Powwow in Ann Arbor

and advocates of the local food and slow food movements

Nancy Jones

government land allotment

Sakiestewa Gilbert contends

and cultures of Indigenous people while reinforcing a belief that Native American societies were inevitably disappearing

As the largest tribe east of the Mississippi and one of the largest in the country

Having accomplished that goal

he has mixed emotions

Weeks also provides historical context for later developments

The Ghost Dance