Indigenous Poetics Cheyenne and returns to the reservation

and returns to the reservation

these childhood friends are helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a violent

she couldn’t help but wonder

Focuses on the Sioux people (Lakota/Teton

Indigenous Poetics Cheyenne and returns to the reservationIndigenous Poetics is a collection of essays by contemporary Native American poets in the United States who explore how the genre helps to radically understand, contemplate, and realize something deeper about ourselves, our communities, and our worlds. The collection illuminates the creative process, identity, language, and the making of poetry. The contributors tell us, in their own words and on their own Indigenous terms, how they engage poetic