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Life is hard for Chia

Long Soldier underscores how centuries of legal jargon have decimated peoples

The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir photography and after removal"I sat down to write a book about pain and ended up writing about love," says award winning Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan. In this book, she recounts her difficult childhood as the daughter of an army sergeant, her love affair at age fifteen with an older man, the legacy of alcoholism, the troubled history of her adopted daughters, and her own physical struggles since a recent horse accident. She shows how historic and emotional pain are