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A close-up image features a large, dark-gray silver medal embossed with the profile of a crouching naked woman reaching for a child, with another child appearing behind her.
poem / Reflections

Post-

Abigail Chabitnoy
An Indigenous poet-anthropologist writes to her daughter of the limits of her motherly protection.
A close-up image features the profile of a child with long, stringy hair and a brown coat on the left side of the picture with a swan, sandy shoreline, and water in a blurred background.
poem / Identities

In the Event of Flooding

Abigail Chabitnoy
An Indigenous poet-anthropologist speaks to the survivance of Native communities in the face of colonialism and genocide.
A photograph features a person with short, wavy hair holding a child near an ocean with a bright line shining from the background, blowing out an otherwise dark image. Matt Hoffman/Unsplash
poem / Counterpoint

Born of “All That Good”

Abigail Chabitnoy
An Indigenous poet-anthropologist and new mother interrogates the idea that, overall, historic Indigenous boarding schools brought a lot of “good.”
A black sign with white letters is on the left beside a grove of tall trees and the moss-covered ruins of a building.
poem / Crossroads

When Asked if the World Would End They Answer No

Abigail Chabitnoy
An Indigenous anthropologist-poet visits Woody Island in Alaska, formerly the site of the Kodiak Baptist Orphanage in the early 20th-century, where her great-grandfather lived before being sent to the Carlisle Indian School.
white feather floats on clear water with rocks at the bottom.
poem / Kinship

Matrilines

Abigail Chabitnoy
An Indigenous anthropologist-poet searches for ancestors while acknowledging the need to adapt.
Four painted Russian dolls of different sizes lined up from largest to smallest frozen in a block of ice.
poem / Counterpoint

Matryoshka Song

Abigail Chabitnoy
An Indigenous anthropologist-poet speaks to the Russian colonization of Alaska from 1784–1867 and how stereotypes and histories shape the lives of Indigenous women.
A landscape image shows a blue sky with clouds over rocks leading out to water and mountains in the distance.
poem / Wayfinding

Dressing Fish

Abigail Chabitnoy
The Sugpiaq people in south-central Alaska have faced Russian colonialism, American assimilation policies, and Native American boarding school violence. A descendant and anthropologist-poet claims a radical presence in looking to the past and the future.