Perfidia powwow Teresa Peterson's family members have

Teresa Peterson's family members have listened to and told stories: stories of events

the Osage Indians owned Oklahoma's most valuable oil reserves and became members of the world's first wealthy oil population

A tale of revenge

In this text

but to their dread

Perfidia powwow Teresa Peterson's family members haveSky Hopinka's Perfidia moves within the textured landscape of memory, both personal and collective, to address the founding colonial violence of the United States and its lasting impact. In a series of cantos, the book length poem surfaces a first person narrative amidst the stream of history and its accounting through the voices of ancestors and kin. Shifting registers between the embodied and the spiritual, Perfidia's subjective syntax destabilizes