The language of the scientists that Erdrich sometimes quotes in epigraphs seems reductive in comparison to the richness of tone and meaning that these poems— filled with puns

All of these descriptions are true—but none of them tell the whole story

stand-alone musings into a memoir that stares down colonialism while chastising hipsters for abusing pumpkin spice

the cousins get distracted

"Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Noopiming once again confirms her position as a brilliant

Pueblo Sovereignty: Indian Land and Water in New Mexico and Texas Brothertown The language of the scientistsOver five centuries of foreign rule by Spain, Mexico, and the United States Native American pueblos have confronted attacks on their sovereignty and encroachments on their land and water rights. How five New Mexico and Texas pueblos did this, in some cases multiple times, forms the history of cultural resilience and tenacity chronicled in Pueblo Sovereignty by two of New Mexico's most distinguished legal historians, Malcolm Ebright and Rick Hendricks.