Through a red place : poetry

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This creative manuscript is grounded in archival research, used to fuel a collection of poems based on land use in the place we now call Wisconsin. Specifically, the manuscript considers both Indigenous and immigrant experiences of place, including those of the author. Along with my critical introduction, this work is significant in that it re-centers Indigeneity as subject, as purveyor of history rather than object of history. One aspect of this, particularly in the creative work, is to consider the tensions between archival/historical documents and personal story as ways to understand place. Further, because language is integrally connected to who writes history and how stories are told, this is a bilingual text, written partially in the Mohegan language