Blood Snow Osage Since childhood

Since childhood

including Ho-Chunk

when Sandy White Hawk was a toddler

and the continued use of Indians and Indianness as a means of escape

Ken Tilsen

Blood Snow Osage Since childhoodAmerican Book Award winning poet dg okpik's second collection of poems, Blood Snow, tells a continuum story of a homeland under erasure, in an ethos of erosion, in a multitude of encroaching methane, ice floe, and rising temperatures. Here, in a true Inupiaq voice, dg okpik's relationship to language is an access point for understanding larger kinships between animals, peoples, traditions, histories, ancestries, and identities. Through an animist