Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota

Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the DakotaMuch of the focus on the Dakota people in Minnesota rests on the tragic events of the 1862 U. S.Dakota War and the resulting exile that sent the majority of the Dakota to prisons and reservations beyond the states boundaries. But the true depth of the devastation of removal cannot be understood without a closer examination of the history of the Dakota people and their deep cultural connection to the land that is Minnesota. Drawing on oral history

Delphine meets Eva and is enchanted

raises a grandson

Deeply observant poems from a Native American poet with a wry sense of humor: Many of the poems in National Monuments explore bodies

is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man's mind

another is reborn

and identity as a Native woman in America

At the heart of a home in the Turtle Mountains sits a woodstove

and the difficult struggles and profound emotional satisfactions the author experienced in the course of one twelve-month period—from a winter pregnancy through a spring and summer of new motherhood to her return to writing in the fall

But for Cedar

author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir

Through imaginative use of both Native language and European documents

author of Whereas