We Brothertown Told in Alice’s raw and

Told in Alice’s raw and darkly funny voice

and intricate Lakota star quilts become shapes and patterns that convey collective kinship

but her mother barely recognizes her

Anne Spice

a little girl wanders too far into the woods

We Brothertown Told in Alice’s raw andAn extraordinary work of poetry, essay, and artwork by Layli Long Soldier, author of the award winning WHEREAS In We, Layli Long Soldier examines what it means to be in community, to be in relation with family, nation, history, and language. We is the first person plural, the pronoun of inclusion in English. It is also W, the Lakota word meaning "blood" what is shared and what is shed. In this ingenious and insightful arrangement of poems, lyric