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    Report to the Department of the Interior: Poems
    Report to the Department of the Interior: Poems
    Report to the Department of the Interior: Poems
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    Report to the Department of the Interior: Poems

    By Diane Glancy

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    Constructed as a series of reports to the Department of the Interior, these poems of grief, anger, defiance, and resistance focus on the oppressive educational system adopted by Indian boarding schools and the struggle Native Americans experienced to retain and honor traditional ways of life and culture.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press
    Release dateMar 15, 2015
    ISBN9780826355720
    Report to the Department of the Interior: Poems
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    Diane Glancy

    Diane Glancy is professor emerita at Macalester College. She has published six books with Wipf & Stock— Uprising of Goats (2014), One of Us (2015), Ironic Witness (2015), Mary Queen of Bees (2017), and The Servitude of Love (2017). Check out my interview with Sheila Tousey

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