distant water : poems Truth is very brave when she

is very brave when she tries new foods

and a penchant for negotiation over violence are all Aboriginal values that Canada absorbed

We Are the Medicine is the moving final volume of the best-selling Surviving the City series

And will God Flare help even the odds against Mihko

and knowledge keeper of the Nakoda community

distant water : poems Truth is very brave when sheBeth Piatote, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, is a Nez Perce scholar, playwright, poet, and associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include the scholarly monograph, Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature and The Beadworkers: Stories, which was long listed for the PEN Bingham Prize for Debut Short