Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry language studies From Helen Hunt Jackson to

From Helen Hunt Jackson to Angie Debo

for nearly a year—ever since that terrible night they'd had their first serious argument hours before he mysteriously vanished

Created with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)

to recreate their oral history that was lost

This sensitive

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry language studies From Helen Hunt Jackson toJoy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U. S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the projectincluding Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear,