Extant

ExtantThe second poetry collection by award winning author Jenny L. Davis (Chickasaw), Extant confronts the many ways in which Native Americans continue to be associated with the distant past and imagined, even today, as more animal than human. For more than a century, anthropologists, museum guides, and high school teachers have described Native American bodies, cultures, and languages as "endangered" or "almost extinct." Through a combination of blackout

passed down from her Ojibway ancestors

and sometimes

including state film agencies

- Empowering reminders that it's okay to give yourself time

mathematicians

mountainous country in western America to the high

invokes the spirits and the homeland

and hopeful book shows us how to find coexistence with Mother Earth and embrace the wisdom of our local Indigenous communities

the language of Ojibwe people

Masters of Empire overturns our assumptions about colonial America

Hózhǫ́ means to continually strive for harmony

reawakening