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Dual Citizenship: Re-Rooting The Language of WHEREAS

Courtesy of Graywolf Press © 2017

“WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as a mother to teach what it is to be Lakota, therein the question: what did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces.” — Layli Long Soldier, WHEREAS

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