and patterns of home ownership through programs and policies that sought to move communities away from their traditional homelands to reservations and

Selected by Kathy Fagan as a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series

Formal protections exist for Native American religious expression

and culture of the Dakota Indians is the result of many years of linguistic study and personal experience spent in Minnesota by Stephen R

" —Indian Country Today

(At) Wrist games and patterns of home ownershipTacey M. Atsitty melds inherited forms such as the sonnet with her Din and religious experiences to boldly and beautifully reveal a love that can last for eternity. Celebrating and examining the depth and range of her relationships with men, Atsitty tenderly shares experiences of being taught to fish by her father, and, in other poems, reveals intimate moments of burgeoning romantic love with vulnerability and honesty. Grounded in a world both old and