Mni Wiconi/Water Is Life: Honoring the Water Protectors at Standing Rock and Everywhere in the Ongoing Struggle for Indigenous Sovereignty research Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria

Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria

He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language

The definitive collection from a groundbreaking Native American poet whose work traces the fault lines between past and present

herself a residential school survivor

new accompanying materials add context through a cultural biography

Mni Wiconi/Water Is Life: Honoring the Water Protectors at Standing Rock and Everywhere in the Ongoing Struggle for Indigenous Sovereignty research Rodrigo Sanchez-ChavarriaViewing Mni Wiconi (Sacred Water of Life) and the No Dakota Access Movement as an isolated happening without acknowledging historical, cultural, and systematic circumstances leading up to it makes no sense. We cannot erase this past nor change it. In order to move forward in a better way, however, we must acknowledge the truthful foundation and recurring practices complicating what to some feel like isolated incidences. The pervasive and growing