The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives

The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe LivesA collective memoir in poetry of an Ojibwe family and tribal community, from creation myth to this day, updated with new poems. Reaching from the moment of creation to the cry of a newborn, The Sky Watched gives poetic voice to Ojibwe family life. In English and Ojibwe, those assembled here voices of history, of memory and experience, of children and elders, Indian boarding school students, tribal storytellers, and the Manidoog, the unseen beings who

the great-granddaughter of Fred and the niece of Super

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Many of the English translations of Indigenous languages that we commonly use today have been handed down from colonial missionaries whose intent was to fundamentally alter or destroy prior Indigenous knowledge and praxis

the weight of one decision

and rising temperatures

"--The New York Times Book Review

Mary Stapler Ross seeing her beautiful Rose Cottage burned to the ground during the Civil War

but more than that

from harrowing accounts of misdiagnoses

But in 2019 one of the Navajo Nation’s largest coal plants closed

She sees the spirits that surround her

which separated young Indigenous children from their families