My First Suit Poem 1 Indigenous Peoples' Journal of Law, Culture and Resistance 2004

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1 Indigenous Peoples' J. L. Culture & Resistance 23 (2004)
My First Suit

handle is hein.journals/indipeor1 and id is 33 raw text is: Poetry by Sara Littlecrow-Russell 23
My First Suit
These papers are as smooth
As her scalp between the hairs
Scattered like old growth trees
After the chemotherapy clearcut.
These papers are as happy
As the cozy expectation
Of her mother's baking -
Bannock and wild salmon
Marinated in lemon juice and dioxin.
These papers are my first lawsuit
Printed on Georgia Pacific paper
Fresh from the river outside her door.
- Sara Littlecrow-Russell
Russian Roulette
Russian Roulette
Indian style,
means you're given
a 500 year old gun
with 5 out of 6 chambers full.
Each bullet
has a different name -
alcohol, disease, poverty,
violence, assimilation.
Survival is finding the name
of the empty chamber.

- Sara Littlecrow-Russell