Perfidia powwow the Osage Indians owned Oklahoma's

the Osage Indians owned Oklahoma's most valuable oil reserves and became members of the world's first wealthy oil population

but to their dread

Teresa Peterson's family members have listened to and told stories: stories of events

Settler City Limits frames cities as Indigenous spaces and places

war after war

Perfidia powwow the Osage Indians owned Oklahoma'sSky Hopinka's Perfidia moves within the textured landscape of memory, both personal and collective, to address the founding colonial violence of the United States and its lasting impact. In a series of cantos, the book length poem surfaces a first person narrative amidst the stream of history and its accounting through the voices of ancestors and kin. Shifting registers between the embodied and the spiritual, Perfidia's subjective syntax destabilizes