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• Living Nations, Living Words

  An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

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  "A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• #NotYourPrincess

  Voices of Native American Women

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  "Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #Not Your Princess presents an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad Indians

  a Tribal Memoir

  Miranda, Deborah A

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  "In this beautiful and devastating book, part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir, Deborah Miranda tells both the stories of her Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen family and the experience of California Indians as a whole through oral histories,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• New Poets of Native Nations

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  "New Poets of Native Nations gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry. Heid E. Erdrich has selected twenty-one poets whose first books were published…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Postcolonial Love Poem

  Diaz, Natalie,

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  Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz's brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages--bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers--be touched and held as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Whereas

  Long Soldier, Layli,

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  This volume confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through

  a Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

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  "United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nature Poem

  Pico, Tommy

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  A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can't bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet. A Best Book of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An American Sunrise

  Poems

  Harjo, Joy,

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  "In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territoty, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family's lands and opens a dialogue…Read moreRead more of this annotation