Dani’s schoolmates think it’s silly to think that Earth gives us presents

As the population of native speakers ages

motivated by prejudice in the child welfare system and hostility in the public schools

When Standing Bear returned to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation after sixteen years' absence

then lick the sweet meat from its hard core of bones

Perfidia land Dani’s schoolmates think it’s sillySky Hopinka's Perfidia moves within the textured landscape of memory, both personal and collective, to address the founding colonial violence of the United States and its lasting impact. In a series of cantos, the book length poem surfaces a first person narrative amidst the stream of history and its accounting through the voices of ancestors and kin. Shifting registers between the embodied and the spiritual, Perfidia's subjective syntax destabilizes