the grassesgrassesgrasses,” providing bookends. This poem was originally published as “Resolution 6” in WHEREAS, a poetry collection by Layli Long Soldier. The reader learns from one of the most striking and audacious sections in Whereas entitled “38”—referencing the Dakota 38, the largest “legal” mass execution in U.S. history—about the possibilities behind the image of grass: “One trader named Andrew Myrick is famous for his refusal to provide credit to Dakota people by saying, ‘if they are hungry, let them eat grass.’” The speaker notes in the piece, “Yet, I started this piece because I was interested in writing about grasses.” Clearly, there are multiple meanings for grasses, and various amplitudes, but none as devastating and to the point as the following lines: When settlers and traders were killed during the Sioux Uprising, one of the first to be executed by the Dakota was Andrew Myrick.When Myrick’s body was found,                                                            his mouth was stuffed with grass. Free. The title sequence to Whereas confronts the United States’ “official” apology to Native American people, the Congressional Resolution of Apology to Native Americans (2009). Click here to sign in or get access. However, this resolution received little, if any, attention. Stream "Resolution (6)" by Layli Long Soldier by PBSNewsHour from desktop or your mobile device Soldier reads from her work Thursday, Oct. 5, as a featured poet at Berkeley Lunch Poems, a noontime poetry reading series at UC Berkeley. Free. Eventually, Soldier became obsessed with, and angry about, the congressional apology. http://lunchpoems.berkeley.edu, Irish Writers’ Festival Los Gatos gathers Irish and local authors for a four-day festival of readings, workshops and discussions. Learn more at, This poem was originally published as “Resolution 6” in. Remembering the controversy of the 2005 Fillmore... 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(6) I too urge the President to acknowledge the wrongs of the United States against Indian tribes in the history of the United States in order to bring healing to this land although healing this land is not dependent never has been upon this President meaning tribal nations and the people themselves are healing this land its waters with or without Presidential acknowledgment they act upon this right without apology: “Riders.” Photograph by Michelle Latimer. 100 Larkin St., S.F. Brandon Yu is a Bay Area freelance writer. I got a Uniqlo mask. (415) 931-3633. https://www.booksinc.net, 4th Filipino American International Book Festival gathers writers and artists from the Philippines and the U.S. for three days of readings, panels and presentations. “Sometimes if it’s confusing and fragmented for the reader, it’s because it’s fragmented and confusing for me,” Soldier says. I am a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship, I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live. A selection of poets, poems, and articles exploring the Native American experience. Why is this so uninteresting, or why do I myself not feel something from this apology? The apology was noiseless, devoid of any real meaning and a part of the status quo. Tiffany Midge (Hunkpapa Lakota) is a poetry editor for The Rumpus and a humor columnist for Indian Country Media Network. I can do something with that unspeakable inside of me.”. Whereas begins with an explication of the Lakota word for “mountain”—or “horn that comes from a shift in the river, throat to mouth”—and the Lakota word for “black.” This opening sequence, entitled Ȟe Sápa, contains five parts and serves as an appetizer for what is to follow, locating specifics and particularities between English and Lakota while establishing anchoring tones and themes throughout the collection. Her poetry collection The Woman Who Married a Bear (University of New Mexico Press, 2016) won the Kenyon Review Earthworks Indigenous Poetry Prize and a Western Heritage Award. Her poems, almost never bearing commas, run wild while carrying a haunting precision. “It’s through the poem in some way that I’m able to articulate it. Layli Long Soldier at Berkeley Lunch Poems: 12:10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5. The text at left is from a social media post by Mark K. Tilsen, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, on September 20, 2016; the text at right is from a personal interview with Waniya Locke in Standing Rock, South Dakota, on September 19, 2016.

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