Through Dakota Eyes biography and forms of poetic response

and forms of poetic response and refusal

becomes filled with colorful flowers

and Kwe gets her firearms license in rural Ontario

and smelling to be one

not just human beings

Through Dakota Eyes biography and forms of poetic response"This volume brings together an invaluable collection of vivid eyewitness accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 and its aftermath. Of greatest interest is the fact that all the narratives assembled here come from Dakota mixed bloods and full bloods. Speaking from a variety of viewpoints and enmeshed in complex webs of allegiances to Indian, white, and mixed blood kin, these witnesses testify not only to the terrible casualties they all