Rivers in My Veins Shawnee With English translations

With English translations

Written in the Mohegan oral tradition

all Lei wants to do is take a nap

Interspersing personal memoir with radical notions of self-help and collective recovery

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Rivers in My Veins Shawnee With English translationsWith calm elegance and precise language, Rivers in My Veins is a work of lyric courage celebrating the connection we all share to the earth. Kara Briggs' poems sing her people, Sauk Suiattle and Yakama, onto the pages. "Land we live on land," she writes, calling us to embrace our kinship with the earth. As a career journalist, Briggs uses documentary poetry to expose the false settler colonial narratives while innovating rhythms from the social dances