Results for "Westerman, Gwen"

*FINALIST, 2024 Minnesota Book Awards "The poems are quiet and powerful, understated and deeply moving."--Carter Revard, author of How the Songs Come Down: New & Selected Poems What flows deep from the heart songs ofthese poems is Gwen Westerman's proud and profound engagement with andtransmissi... Read More about Songs, Blood Deep

Much of the focus on the Dakota people in Minnesota rests on the tragic events of the 1862 U.S.–Dakota War and the resulting exile that sent the majority of the Dakota to prisons and reservations beyond the state’s boundaries. But the true depth of the devastation of removal cannot be unde... Read More about Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota

In language as perceptive as it is poignant, poet Gwen Nell Westerman builds a world in words that reflects the past, present, and future of the Dakota people. An intricate balance between the singularity of personal experience and the unity of collective longing, Follow the Blackbirds speaks to the... Read More about Follow the Blackbirds (American Indian Studies)