From Sand Creek

From Sand CreekThe massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho women and children by U. S. soldiers at Sand Creek in 1864 was a shameful episode in American history, and its battlefield was proposed as a National Historic Site in 1998 to pay homage to those innocent victims. Poet Simon Ortiz had honored those people seventeen years earlier in his own way. That book, from Sand Creek, is now back in print. Originally published in a small press edition, from Sand Creek makes a

a future is built

Apache storytelling

have traveled with their family to the Great Plains of Dakota Territory

from the 1970s to the present

By gathering the traditions and ceremonies in a single volume

Hopi clan runners competed against each other on and below their mesas—and when they won footraces

a poignant journey home to Blueberry Road

Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné

race and class

Join a fun group of kids as they explore and care for the community garden

Goeman illuminates how these works can serve to remap settler geographies and center Native knowledges

A brief glossary and pronunciation guide to Cree words that appear in the text is provided on the copyright page