WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. . 38. Her first book of poetry, WHEREAS, is a winner of the multiple awards including the Whiting Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award.She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For example, all sentences will begin with capital letters. ... 2010) and forthcoming manuscript is titled WHEREAS (Graywolf Press). Layli Long Soldier is an Indigenous poet, writer, feminist, artist, and activist, and a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe. I will compose each sentence with care by minding what the rules of writing dictate. With WHEREAS, Layli Long Soldier teaches us that the more we include and are included, the more genuinely American we become.”―Radius “[Layli Long Soldier] implicates the line between the political and the personal, writing with apparent concern for both, but also looking at the ways in which one is imposed upon the other. Layli Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA with honors from Bard College. Layli Long Soldier is the recipient of the 2015 Lannan Fellowship for Poetry and a 2015 National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Here, the sentence will be respected. . Listen to her On Being conversation, “The Freedom … By: Layli Long Soldier November 20, 2013 The following is an excerpt from Whereas , which is a response to the 2009 Congressional Resolution of Apology to Native Americans One Poem by Layli Long Soldier.

She earned her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts and her Master’s at Bard College. .

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