Introduction by Louise Erdrich

Indigenous cultural wisdom shows us how to live in peace—with the earth and one another

Representing groundbreaking scholarship in the field of Native American studies

The nation

Long Soldier underscores how centuries of legal jargon have decimated peoples

Severalty Potawatomi Introduction by Louise ErdrichSeveralty begins in a garden and moves through ancestral and contemporary hometowns that shimmer between wholeness and severing. In these poems, river currents tick with the intrusion of the clock's lavish precincts. From powerfully compressed lyrical fragments to pulsing narrative sequences, Severalty shifts perspectives to examine devastation and healing, transience and seasonality, loss and resurrection. With clear roots in her first two books of