National Monuments

National Monuments2009 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

" Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity

wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them

Geniusz teaches the ways she was taught—through stories

Signaled panic

she heard from a lot of doubters

and tender all at once

” (Horn Book (starred review))

Antelope Woman ingeniously illuminates how that history affects the contemporary descendants of these families who are the products of two cultures

This is a lovingly created and useful compilation especially modified for the family learner

"Not my girl

As she writes

Mother Earth