Rivers in My Veins Shawnee When Danielle Geller's mother dies

When Danielle Geller's mother dies of alcohol withdrawal during an attempt to get sober

which gives way to the stories of those he encounters

These reluctant migrants were not able to carry much from their ancestral homeland

Written in the Mohegan oral tradition

and history and suggest ways to educate and train Indigenous students

Rivers in My Veins Shawnee When Danielle Geller's mother diesWith calm elegance and precise language, Rivers in My Veins is a work of lyric courage celebrating the connection we all share to the earth. Kara Briggs' poems sing her people, Sauk Suiattle and Yakama, onto the pages. "Land we live on land," she writes, calling us to embrace our kinship with the earth. As a career journalist, Briggs uses documentary poetry to expose the false settler colonial narratives while innovating rhythms from the social dances