had laid claim to 160 acres in a virgin maple grove in Minnesota

sometimes comedic

Winner of the 2018 Minnesota Book Award for poetry

and layered with meaning

ironic Indian point of view and what he tells us

The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as My Blackfeet Elders Told It spirituality had laid claim to 160At the age of sixty seven, Percy Bullchild (1915 1986), a Blackfeet Indian from Browning, Montana, with little formal education in English, set out to put the oral traditions and history of his people into a permanent written record. He regarded this undertakingto "write the Indian version of our own true ways in our history and legends," as he puts itas both a corrective and an instructive tool. Bullchild culled this remarkable collection of