Whereas and Roofwalker, reviews
Whereas, poems by Layli Long Soldier Graywolf Press, 2017 Roofwalker, Susan Power Milkweed Editions, 2004 Ever since I read Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah, I’ve read a couple other books by Native Americans. I loved Roofwalker , Milkweed Editions, 2002, by Susan Power (enrolled member of the Standing Rock Tribe) mostly because I’ve lived in the Uptown neighborhood since 1982, since it was a wreck. I was familiar with the Native Americans dislocated to Uptown. It wasn’t by accident that Native Americans came to Uptown. 1) There was again one of those misguided federal programs ( Urban Indian Relocation Program ) directed at Native Americans living on reservations, to help them get off their land and assimilated into mainstream society. There was an incentive to come down to Chicago—and back then there was manufacturing work. 2) Native Americans ended up in Uptown because in 1953 the Ameri...