exposing their business ties and multigenerational interrelationships through birth and marriage

Designated in 2016 by President Obama and reduced to 85 percent of its original size one year later by President Trump

for electricity

and unscrupulous land speculators and swindlers take advantage

Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years colonialism exposing their business ties andOver a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her "warm, oracular voice" (John Freeman, Boston Globe) that speaks "from a deep and timeless source of compassion for all" (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR). Her poems are musical, intimate, political, and wise, intertwining ancestral memory and tribal histories with resilience and love. In this gemlike volume, Harjo selects her best poems from across fifty years, beginning with her