The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket children and current environmental and land

and current environmental and land management issues

These darkly humorous poems illuminate far corners of the heart

land allotment and Native tribal reorganization

they are rebuilding their nations according to their own diverse and often innovative designs

Fairbanks focuses on the discourse markers that are the most ubiquitous and that exist most commonly within Ojibwe texts

The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket children and current environmental and landThe Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket traverses the Southwest landscape, exploring intricate relationships between Native peoples and the natural world, land, pop culture, twentieth century music, and multi generational representations. Oscillating between musical influences, including the repercussions of ethnomusicology, and the present past future, the collection rewrites and rerights what it means to be Indigenous, queer, and even formerly emo in the