Layli Long Soldier ebook WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. . . Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Layli Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA with honors from Bard College. Chromosomory book. Layli … . With WHEREAS, Layli Long Soldier teaches us that the more we include and are included, the more genuinely American we become.”―Radius “[Layli Long Soldier] implicates the line between the political and the personal, writing with apparent concern for both, but also looking at the ways in which one is imposed upon the other. - Radius "[Layli Long Soldier] implicates the line between the political and the personal, writing with apparent concern for both, but also looking at the ways in which one is imposed upon the other... . Layli Long Soldier, a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation, responds in her first book of poetry, WHEREAS, to the Congressional Resolution of Apology to Native Americans, signed into law by President Barack Obama on 19 December 2009. More Context for Teachers: This poem is from Layli Long Soldier’s book WHEREAS (Graywolf Press, 2017). Read a sample of other poems from the book, along with a brief review by the poet Jennifer Michael Hecht, who writes, “[Long Soldier’s] vision is intense and incisive. Long Soldier writes, “Whatever comes after the word ‘Whereas’ and before the semicolon in a congressional document falls short of legal grounds.” “Whereas,” by Layli Long Soldier With WHEREAS, Layli Long Soldier teaches us that the more we include and are included, the more genuinely American we become."
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