Beth Piatote is a Nez Perce writer, scholar, and language activist committed to using creative expression for Indigenous language revitalization. She is the author of The Beadworkers: Stories and an associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Photo by Kirsten Lara Getchel
Oregon Trail Ruts State Historic Site.
On my right metatarsus
you can see the swale caused by wet wagon wheels
coming out of the Big Blue River, heaving
their sodden burdens over the top
of my ar…
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