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This volume testifies to the need to protect the remarkable ruins of the Indigenous North American city of Blood Run and the sacred remains she guards there in mounded tombs. The persona poems herein emanate its character embraced in architectural accomplishment designed in accordance with the sun and moon and multitudes of stars above.
List of contents
- Introduction by Margaret Noori
- Author Foreword
- I Dawning
- Before Next Dawn
- II Origin
- River
- Clan Sister
- Memory
- Horizon
- The Mounds
- Ceremonial Mounds
- Burial Mound
- Morning Star
- Sun
- Dog
- Starwood
- Corn
- Redwing Blackbird
- Sunflower
- Moon
- Blue Star
- North Star
- The Mounds
- Snake Mound
- Esoterica
- Clan Sister
- Deer
- Beaver
- Buffalo
- Fox
- Memory
- Cupped Boulder
- Pipestone Tablets
- III Intrusions
- The Tree at Eminija Mounds
- Burial Mound
- Ghosts
- Skeletons
- Jesuit
- Clan Sister
- Squatters
- The Mounds
- Tractor
- Horizon
- The Mounds
- Skeletons
- Looters
- Burial Mound
- Early Anthro
- River
- Looters
- Clan Sister
- Early Interpreter
- The Mounds
- Stone Snake Effigy
- Memory
- Horizon
- Clan Sister
- Skeletons
- Horizon
- The Mounds
- IV Portend
- The Tree at Eminija Mounds
- Ghosts
- Prairie Horizons
- Skeletons
- Clan Sister
- Skeletons
- The Mounds
- Memory
- Epilogue
- Clan Sister
- When the Animals Leave This Place
- Acknowledgments
- Dedications
About the author
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke descends from moundbuilders and is of Cherokee, Creek, Huron, Metis, French Canadian, Lorraine, Portuguese, Irish, English, and Scot ascendants. Raised in North Carolina, the Plains and Canada, she previously worked horses, fields, waters, and factories. A fellow of the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, Black Earth Institute (emeritus), Salon Ada, and The Center for Great Plains Institute.
