We Brothertown Malcolm Ebright and Rick Hendricks

Malcolm Ebright and Rick Hendricks

Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving

A young Native American

and intricate Lakota star quilts become shapes and patterns that convey collective kinship

despite his misgivings about how it has come to be a part of his life through the colonial process

We Brothertown Malcolm Ebright and Rick HendricksAn extraordinary work of poetry, essay, and artwork by Layli Long Soldier, author of the award winning WHEREAS In We, Layli Long Soldier examines what it means to be in community, to be in relation with family, nation, history, and language. We is the first person plural, the pronoun of inclusion in English. It is also W, the Lakota word meaning "blood" what is shared and what is shed. In this ingenious and insightful arrangement of poems, lyric