Perfidia powwow These elders share stories about

These elders share stories about the girls and women of their childhood communities at mid-century (1930–1960)

Teresa Peterson's family members have listened to and told stories: stories of events

In this text

In this charming bedtime story

Perfidia powwow These elders share stories aboutSky Hopinka's Perfidia moves within the textured landscape of memory, both personal and collective, to address the founding colonial violence of the United States and its lasting impact. In a series of cantos, the book length poem surfaces a first person narrative amidst the stream of history and its accounting through the voices of ancestors and kin. Shifting registers between the embodied and the spiritual, Perfidia's subjective syntax destabilizes