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Heid E. Erdrich has authored three poetry collections including 

from Michigan State University Press and 

from New Rivers Press. She also authored The Mother's Tongue, Salt Publishing's Earthworks series, and co-edited Sister Nations: Native American Women on Community, Minnesota Historical Society Press.

A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibway, Heid grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota. She earned degrees from Dartmouth College and The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. She and her sister Louise Erdrich recently co-founded a non-profit clearinghouse for indigenous language-centered literature called Birchbark House.

tilted to his, her chin a perfect emblem,

- "The Way To" by Heid Erdrich, as it appears in her book of poems 

. Reprinted here with permission from the author.

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