Poetically Fighting for Sacred Sites and National Monuments

I was happy when my copy of National Monuments by Ojibway poet Heid E. Erdrich came in the mail! The book is perhaps best known for her awesomely comic poems about Kennewick Man dating online, but I was interested in how she handled the issue of sacred cultural sites and how little power Native people have to protect these sites--and how little understood the issue is by the powers that be. The fight for public lands has been in the news all year since the Bundy's took over Malheur in January and taken a greater urgency on Monday as the G...