The following is from Washing My Mother’s Body: A Ceremony for Grief by Joy Harjo, illustrated by Dana Tiger.
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Reprinted with permission from Washing My Mother’s Body: A Ceremony for Grief by Joy Harjo. Art by Dana Tiger. Introduction copyright © 2025 by Joy Harjo-Sapulpa. Art and artist’s statement copyright © 2025 by Dana Tiger. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.
“Washing My Mother’s Body” from An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo. Copyright © 2019 by Joy Harjo. Used by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
