referencing sci-fi television series and Internet pop-up ads

Through critical engagement with diverse written and visual works created by Indigenous leaders

and the beasts made a circle of wonder and good will around the real gift of fire

the beaver―or in Nishnaabemowin

she relies on Traditional Indigenous Knowledge passed down from her family

Cloud Runner Menominee referencing sci-fi television series andThe death of a child is one of the most unreconcilable griefs. In Cloud Runner, Joy Harjo reckons with the unspeakable pain of losing her daughter: "Reason has no home in this hour." Despite this devastation, Harjo constructs a shrine to human resilience, reminding us that the most profound revelations can appear in our darkest hours: "I now know why we construct ceremonial epics of mystery and beauty, Of enemy and failure: it is so we can pick our