Mann's language is as plainspoken and clear as it is provocative

oppression and racism in North America from an award-winning Haudenosaunee writer

Velarde Tiller

”―Publishers Weekly

Whereas Métis Mann's language is as plainspokenWHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Dont worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Din, her fathers language.