Blue Corn Tongue: Poems in the Mouth of the Desert Taíno Indigenous academic Carolyn Roberts offers

Indigenous academic Carolyn Roberts offers a deep understanding of how to support educators with Indigenous education and to create a nurturing and inclusive environment for all students

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Louise and her younger sister have grown up into the harsh social and physical landscape of western Montana in the 1940s

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Blue Corn Tongue: Poems in the Mouth of the Desert Taíno Indigenous academic Carolyn Roberts offersIn a voice that is jubilant, irreverent, sometimes scouring, sometimes heartfelt, and always unmistakably her own, Amber McCrary remaps the deserts of Arizona through the blue corn story of a young Din woman figuring out love and life with an O'odham man. Reflecting experiences of Indigenous joy, pain, and family, these shapeshifting poems celebrate the love between two Native partners, a love that flourishes alongside the traumas they face in the