Rivers in My Veins

Rivers in My VeinsWith 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

encourages children to show love and support for each other and to consider each other's well-being in their everyday actions

changed by its newfound wealth

Named Best Bedtime Book of 2014 by the Huffington Post

-- The New York Times

It explores how learned patterns of behavior ― the ways people adapt to trauma to survive ― are passed down within family systems

Janet McAdams

have too readily accepted the assumption that the colonial project is complete

Evolving from a conversation between author Joshua Whitehead and Angie Abdou

when he was the "keeper of the sacred pipe

whereas folk stories served a variety of purposes

"These Anishinaabe ceremonial drums were given to all Anishinaabe people

The oil pipeline united communities along its path—from North Dakota