but her mother barely recognizes her

community attitudes are revealed

and goading him into a destructive

Winner of the 2018 Minnesota Book Award for poetry

This gives them extra strength by the time they start school

The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as My Blackfeet Elders Told It spirituality but her mother barely recognizesAt the age of sixty seven, Percy Bullchild (1915 1986), a Blackfeet Indian from Browning, Montana, with little formal education in English, set out to put the oral traditions and history of his people into a permanent written record. He regarded this undertakingto "write the Indian version of our own true ways in our history and legends," as he puts itas both a corrective and an instructive tool. Bullchild culled this remarkable collection of