Rivers in My Veins dog pick The concept for the illustrations

The concept for the illustrations was influenced by medieval illuminated manuscripts

trauma and truth

Kimberly Blaeser’s poetry layers together past

Hayes encounters a unique sense of alienation from both her Native community and the dominant culture

Rivers in My Veins dog pick The concept for the illustrationsWith calm elegance and precise language, Rivers in My Veins is a work of lyric courage celebrating the connection we all share to the earth. Kara Briggs' poems sing her people, Sauk Suiattle and Yakama, onto the pages. "Land we live on land," she writes, calling us to embrace our kinship with the earth. As a career journalist, Briggs uses documentary poetry to expose the false settler colonial narratives while innovating rhythms from the social dances