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often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism

Erdrich imagines an America in which winter is a casualty of climate change

Selected by Kathy Fagan as a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series

Many of the English translations of Indigenous languages that we commonly use today have been handed down from colonial missionaries whose intent was to fundamentally alter or destroy prior Indigenous knowledge and praxis

Absentee Indians & Other Poems violence children's booksAbsentee Indians and Other Poems evokes personal yet universal experiences of the places that Native Americans call home, their family and national histories, and the emotional forces that help forge Native American identities. These are poems of exile, loss, and the celebration of that which remains. Anchored in the physical landscape, Blaesers poetry finds the sacred in those ordinary actions that bind a community together. As Blaeser turns to the