Layli Long Soldier

Longlist, 2026 National Book Awards
Finalist, 2017 National Book Awards

Layli Long Soldier is a poet, artist, and citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She is the author of WHEREAS, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Learn more >

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ISBN 9781644454176
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WHEREAS

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ISBN 9781555977672
Graywolf Press

WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. More about this book >

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Layli Long Soldier

Layli Long Soldier is a poet, artist, and citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She is the author of WHEREAS, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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