but her mother barely recognizes her

had laid claim to 160 acres in a virgin maple grove in Minnesota

This gives them extra strength by the time they start school

In this spiritual

Winner of the 2018 Minnesota Book Award for poetry

The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as My Blackfeet Elders Told It spirituality but her mother barely recognizesAt the age of sixty seven, Percy Bullchild (1915 1986), a Blackfeet Indian from Browning, Montana, with little formal education in English, set out to put the oral traditions and history of his people into a permanent written record. He regarded this undertakingto "write the Indian version of our own true ways in our history and legends," as he puts itas both a corrective and an instructive tool. Bullchild culled this remarkable collection of