halted the expansion of tar sands extraction and the pipeline construction at Standing Rock

and their parents from loneliness

JaeRan Kim

embark upon an exhilarating life-journey crowded with colorful

But for Cedar

Absentee Indians & Other Poems culture halted the expansion of tarAbsentee Indians and Other Poems evokes personal yet universal experiences of the places that Native Americans call home, their family and national histories, and the emotional forces that help forge Native American identities. These are poems of exile, loss, and the celebration of that which remains. Anchored in the physical landscape, Blaesers poetry finds the sacred in those ordinary actions that bind a community together. As Blaeser turns to the