CONTENTS

Introduction Twenty-One Poets for the Twenty-First Century

Heid E. Erdrich

Tacey M. Atsitty

Elegy for Yucca Fruit Woman

Hole through the Rock

Layli Long Soldier

Whereas I Did Not Desire in Childhood

Whereas Re-solution’s an Act

from Nature Poem

Margaret Noodin

Waawiindamojig / The Promisers

Winiiam Aagimeke / William Making Snowshoes

Agoozimakakiig Idiwag / What the Peepers Say

Jiikimaadizi / A Joyful Life

Mazinbii’amawaan / Sending Messages

A Mighty Pulverizing Machine

The Haskell Marching Band

Gwen Nell Westerman

Owotaŋna Sececa

Dakota Homecoming

Theory Doesn’t Live Here

Undivided Interest

Jennifer Elise Foerster

Pottery Lessons I

Blood Moon Triptych

Other Small Thundering

American Arithmetic

The First Water Is the Body

Trevino L. Brings Plenty

For the Sake of Beauty

The Sound of It

Part Gravel, Part Water, All Indian

Blizzard South Dakota

Northeast Portland

Not Just Anybody Can Have One

Red-ish Brown-ish

Song Syntax Cycle

dg nanouk okpik

Her/My Arctic Corpse Whale

The Weight of the Arch Distributes the Girth of the Other

Dog Moon Night at Noatak

Julian Talamantez Brolaski

Blackwater Stole My Pronoun

What Do They Know of Suffering, Who Eat of Pineapples Yearround

As the Owl Augurs

Stonewall to Standing Rock

The Bear and the Salmon

When It Rains It Pours

The Bear Was Born

Anchor-Screws of Culture

Toward Mount Scott

Ever Since I Can Remember

Before We Are Eaten

Hillbilly Leviathan

Craig Santos Perez

from Lisiensan Ga’lago

from The Legends of Juan Malo [a Malologue]

Ginen the Micronesian Kingfisher [I Sihek]

Ginen Tidelands [Latte Stone Park] [Hagåtña, Guåhan]

(First Trimester)

(Papa and Wākea)

Gordon Henry, Jr.

Simple Four Part Directions for Making Indian Lit

Among the Almost Decolonized

The Mute Scribe Recalls Some Talking Circle

Brandy Nālani McDougall

The Petroglyphs at Olowalu

On Cooking Captain Cook

This Island on Which I Love You

We are the ones

Heart Butte, Montana

A Duck’s Tune

Finders Keepers: Aboriginal Responses to European Colonization

The Rope Seethes

Now I’m a Woman

Green Rainbow Song

Things to Do in Suquamish

Light Unburied, Unchained

Amoroleck’s Words

My Standard Response

In Memory of Shame

Abracadabra, an Abcedarian

Bartolomé de las Casas, 1542

The Poet I Wish I Was

Speaking through Our Nations’ Teeth

It Goes Something Like This

Repatriating Ourselves

Snagging the Eye from Curtis

A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function

The Hands of the Taino

Leaving the Old Gods

from “The Collectors”

Tiger on the Shoulder

Hunters, Gatherers

Editor’s Acknowledgments