A Lucille Clifton poem for Indigenous People’s Day, which shows us the need for the holiday.
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On Clifton, Columbus, and Indians
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Massacring the Environment Dakota Style
With a North Dakota winter bearing down on those protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, I see a convergence of images that also show up in Lucille Clifton’s poem “the killing of the trees”: environmental degradation, oppression of Native Americans, and frozen bodies.
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