representing nothing less than an alternative history of North America beginning with the Indian's first encounters with the earliest explorers

Her poems often reflect the deep tensions between Native culture and white culture

who understand the vital importance of passing on the language to future generations in order to preserve the beloved language and legacy of the community

After hundreds of years

Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations masculinity representing nothing less than anDominant history would have us believe that colonialism belongs to a previous era that has long come to an end. But as Native people become mobile, reservation lands become overcrowded and the state seeks to enforce means of containment, closing its borders to incoming, often indigenous, immigrants. In Mark My Words, Mishuana Goeman traces settler colonialism as an enduring form of gendered spatial violence, demonstrating how it persists in the