Blood Snow

Blood SnowAmerican Book Award winning poet dg okpik's second collection of poems, Blood Snow, tells a continuum story of a homeland under erasure, in an ethos of erosion, in a multitude of encroaching methane, ice floe, and rising temperatures. Here, in a true Inupiaq voice, dg okpik's relationship to language is an access point for understanding larger kinships between animals, peoples, traditions, histories, ancestries, and identities. Through an animist

as a vessel to save

The Way to Rainy Mountain recalls the journey of Tai-me

As a young boy grows up

they are transported to an alternate dimension populated by traditional Anishinaabe figures in a story inspired by Alice in Wonderland

Miller counters those assumptions by looking at the historical record and examining how leadership was distributed and enacted long before scholars arrived on the scene

Clifford Canku

Languages featured: Anishinaabemowin

and the entrenched beliefs that processed foods are superior to traditional tribal fare

these witnesses testify not only to the terrible casualties they all suffered

conveyed by both what is said and how it is said

"—William deBuys

In dramatic encounters