Rivers in My Veins Shawnee These reluctant migrants were not

These reluctant migrants were not able to carry much from their ancestral homeland

Interspersing personal memoir with radical notions of self-help and collective recovery

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Rivers in My Veins Shawnee These reluctant migrants were notWith 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