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Layli Long Soldier

Layli Long Soldier holds a BFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and is currently pursuing an MFA at Bard College. She resides in Tsaile, Arizona on the Navajo Nation with her husband and daughter. Her first chapbook of poetry is Chromosomory (Q Ave Press, 2010).

Fall 2012

Ȟe Sápa

By Layli Long Soldier

One.

H^e Sapa is a horn is a mountain, is a black horn or black mountain, as it is the same in this language. Remember. And is not a black hill, not Paha Sapa, by any name you call it.