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Layli Long Soldier is an Oglala Lakota poet, writer, feminist, artist, and activist.
Layli Long Soldier | |
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| Years active | 2010–present |
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Layli Long Soldier is an Oglala Lakota poet, writer, feminist, artist, and activist.
Long Soldier grew up in the four corners region of the Southwest, where she continues to live and work to advocate against the continued, systematic oppression of indigenous populations. [1] She graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts with a Bachelor's in Fine Arts, and went on to earn a Master's at Bard College. [2]
In 2010, she published the chapbook Chromosomory, [3] and in 2013 participated in the art exhibit Pte Oyate at the Red Cloud Indian School, along with Roger Broer, Micheal Two Bulls and Keith Brave Heart. [4]
Long Soldier is an editor of the journal Drunken Boat , and the poetry editor for Kore Press. [3]
Her first volume of poetry, Whereas , published in 2017 by Graywolf Press [5] [6] explores the systemic violence against and cultural erasure of native tribes in the United States through a thoughtful investigation of language. [7] Whereas responds to the cautiously phrased and quietly passed 2009 U.S. Congressional Apology to Native Peoples for the history of genocidal policies and actions the United States Federal government has enacted against them. In writing these poems, Long Soldier studied similar apologies from governments across the world to indigenous peoples and considered the nature of authentic apology. [8]
The volume's longest poem, the five-page "38," recounts how 38 Sioux warriors were hanged, with the approval of President Lincoln, after the 1862 Sioux Uprising, on December 26, 1862. Long Soldier writes "This was the same week that President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation." [9]
Whereas also invokes personal experiences, including Long Soldier's reflections on her relationship to her daughter and motherhood. [8]
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