National Monuments voices women and men

women and men

and a vital tool for Dakota language learners and linguists

each of whom have private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow

mercilessly dismantles pretendians

is an elder from the Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota who currently lives in Cass Lake

National Monuments voices women and men2009 Minnesota Book Awards Winner for Poetry. "Erdrich's poems are beautiful and brave explorations of the depths of national identities and the real people who live them these are poems I loved reading." Robert Warrior, Director, University of Illinois American Indian Studies and the Native American House Deeply observant poems from a Native American poet with a wry sense of humor: Many of the poems in National Monuments explore bodies, particularly