The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance poetry Indigenous Poetics is a collection

Indigenous Poetics is a collection of essays by contemporary Native American poets in the United States who explore how the genre helps to radically understand

The story follows several historical figures

In this profoundly human and moving narrative

Thomasina Topbear

The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance poetry Indigenous Poetics is a collectionAn award winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government. Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her tenacious immigrant familys origins. Her great great grandparents, the Sinykins, and their six children fled antisemitism in Russia and arrived in the United States at the turn of the 20th century,