Rivers in My Veins dog pick Hayes encounters a unique sense

Hayes encounters a unique sense of alienation from both her Native community and the dominant culture

Shifting registers between the embodied and the spiritual

Biipiigiwisens lived with his nine older brothers and they married Thunder Bird Women

was a key reason that the Allies were able to win in the Pacific

trauma and truth

Rivers in My Veins dog pick Hayes encounters a unique senseWith 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