Blood Run

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	Allison Adelle Hedge Coke Blood Run
	Search for a word or phrase in this book … Biographical note: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke descends from moundbuilders and is of Cherokee, Huron, Creek, French Canadian, Lorraine, Portuguese, English, Scot, and Irish ascendants. Raised in North Carolina, the Plains and Canada, she previously worked horses, fields, waters, and factories. The MacDowell Colony/Black Earth Institute Fellow; professor, Institute of American Indian Arts (summer faculty, Naropa University); previously authored Dog Road Woman (American Book Award), Off-Season City Pipe (poetry, Coffee House Press); and Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer (memoir, U.NE.). BIC Basic EAN13: 9781844712663 ISBN-10: 1844712664 ISBN-13: 9781844712663 Author: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke Title: Blood Run Series: Earthworks Product class: BC Language: eng Audience: General/trade BIC subject category: CTCH1 Publisher: Salt Publishing Pub date: 15-Nov-06 Extent: 120pp Height: 216 mm Width: 140 mm Thickness: 7 mm Weight: 180 gms Supplier: Gardners Books Supplier: Ingram Book Group Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett) Availability: IP Price: GBP 9.99 Price: USD 15.95 Rights: World	See larger image PAPERBACK 20% off at the UK Bookstore! ~~£9.99~~ £7.99 20% off at the US Bookstore! ~~$15.95~~ $12.76	Short description/annotation: This volume testifies to the need to protect the remarkable ruins of the Indigenous North American city of Blood Run and the sacred remains she guards there in mounded tombs. The persona poems herein emanate its character embraced in architectural accomplishment designed in accordance with the sun and moon and multitudes of stars above. Main description: Blood Run was once a great mound city. About eighty remnants of its original four-hundred mounds still stand in testament to the 10,000 people who made their home here time ago and prove a terrific tribute of world history for their descendants living just down the road today. Yet, Blood Run is still in great danger of being forever destroyed by looters, developers, and the plow. This volume stands to persuade others to protect her and the sacred remains she guards in mounded tombs. The verse play of persona poems herein emanate its character of architectural accomplishment designed in accordance with the sun and moon and multitudes of stars above. Previous to European colonization and conquest efforts, trade flourished between Indigenous peoples of the Americas for perhaps as long as time earmarked humankind. Evidence of continual vast trade throughout the Western Hemisphere, including art, symbolic items, and practical tools, was well cached in the multitude of mound cities puckering vast portions of the continent, some still incredibly existing after decades of continual and intentional desecration, disfigurement, and dismantling by grave robbers and Manifest Destiny driven anti-eco agriculturalists. Though surely there were times of dilemma for Indigenous Americans, these long-developed relations ensured survival during eras of doubt. Thus the likelihood of peace prevailed and most nations enjoyed the security of blanket protection, aid, and assistance from related tribes; whether by blood or adoption. In so much, tribes that enjoyed helping one another sustain themselves engaged in trade relationships with numerous additional nations outside these pacts; building cities of ceremonial, burial, effigy, and civic mounds, wherein which they flourished. Table of contents: Introduction by Margaret Noori Author Foreword I Dawning Before Next Dawn II Origin River Clan Sister Memory Horizon The Mounds Ceremonial Mounds Burial Mound Morning Star Sun Dog Starwood Corn Redwing Blackbird Sunflower Moon Blue Star North Star The Mounds Snake Mound Esoterica Clan Sister Deer Beaver Buffalo Fox Memory Cupped Boulder Pipestone Tablets III Intrusions The Tree at Eminija Mounds Burial Mound Ghosts Skeletons Jesuit Clan Sister Squatters The Mounds Tractor Horizon The Mounds Skeletons Looters Burial Mound Early Anthro River Looters Clan Sister Early Interpreter The Mounds Stone Snake Effigy Memory Horizon Clan Sister Skeletons Horizon The Mounds IV Portend The Tree at Eminija Mounds Ghosts Prairie Horizons Skeletons Clan Sister Skeletons The Mounds Memory Epilogue Clan Sister When the Animals Leave This Place Acknowledgments Dedications View excerpt as PDF: Click here to view a sample (104 KB) Excerpt from book: Memory Wearing white mourning paint powdered from pink granite weathered light as crusted snow. For prayer, song, story—life. Laying out our world in shapings, come Cohokia. Planting three sisters—Corn, Squash, Beans— circling each mound in retrospect—dancing, drumming. Marking our bird-print presence. Buffalo marks on Pipestone Tablets, on boulder stone, on the belly of the earth, on every raised ridge, seasonal hide, come winter. Fortification? Hardly from human. Mere walls honor cyclic astral events, bring whereabouts, announce our city’s welcoming—honor patrons—Puma, Thunder, Snake! Ho-Chunk, Missouria, Ioway, Otoe, Quapaw began what Omaha, Ponca, Kansa, Osage joined. The Honga. Soon Arikara, Cheyenne, Dakota as well, negotiating trade, camaraderie, or not. Millennia ago we initiated young here. Until strangeness, disease, danger encroached upon us. Ten thousand strong then, this city invoking ceremony, ceremonial chance, feasts filling significant days, nights. The winds winding each of the hundreds of hills raised, revered by man under the glory. Unpublished endorsement : I am a descendent of the mound-builders. I say, Praise to the book that praises this mystery and beauty and history. Allison Hedge Coke is a woman who has fallen deep into the earth world and reveals its hidden truths. She is a mesmerizing artist, with work based on research chanted into poetry. Linda Hogan Unpublished endorsement : These poems bear witness to a difficult age, an age built on a spiral of earthliness. They make an honoring song for the earth. This honoring song carries joy, sadness, fury and grief. We need this gift, these poems. Joy Harjo, Mvksoke poet and musician Unpublished endorsement : “Blood Run” the name of an ancient site in an eastern corner of the US state South Dakota. Hundreds of mounds were built here by Native American Plains peoples and cultures, a thousand years before the arrival of the white intruders (e.g., settlers, military). The poems revive the history of the sites at “Blood Run” giving profound voice to humans, animals, plants and structures, also with political-ecological hope for the future to preserve ancient spiritual places. Bernhard Widder Unpublished endorsement : Purity in Poetry! Allison Hedge Coke has captured the true essence of the way of life, celebration of life enjoyed by all the many nations of Indigenous people(s) living here on our Makoce (land) which all indigenous nations call in unison Mother Earth. All Our Relations (Mitakuye Oyasin) is eloquently spoken and expressed by Allison. It is a true honor to have a kola (friend) a true Indigenous winyan (lady), to hold, keep and express the true spirit of all nations. I AM HONORED. Irwin Sharp Fish, Sr. 2003-04 NIEA Teacher of the Year