Cloud Runner Haida conducting oral histories

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How to Keep Your Language Alive is a manual for students of all languages

Cloud Runner Haida conducting oral historiesThe 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