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Lois Red Elk is an enrolled member of the Ft. Peck Sioux in Montana, with roots from the Isanti on her mother’s side, and the Hunkpapa and Ihanktonwa from her father, who is descended from the Sitting Bull family. Raised in her traditional culture, she is a quill and bead worker, a traditional…
Lois Red Elk is the author of Why I Return to Makoce (Many Voices Press, 2015), Dragonfly Weather (Lost Horse Press, 2013), and Our Blood Remembers (Many Voices Press, 2011).
Jun 7, 2021 · A grim discovery in western Canada is yet another shocking reminder of how Indian schools were instruments of genocide. Lois Red Elk offers two poems that speak to their legacy
Lois Red Elk is an enrolled member of the Ft. Peck Sioux in Montana, with roots from the Isanti on her mother’s side, and the Hunkpapa and Ihanktonwa from her father, who is descended from the Sitting Bull family. Raised in her traditional culture, she...
Game. By Lois Red Elk. Tracks are all that define these voices, hungry lives pulsing sacred ground. We are a journey of distressed shapes, red essence on parchment, occupying a life. We look for the fated four-legged that paced. this way, a tested and well-worn path. among storms, mud, into this shared hidden.
May 7, 2020 · Out on the prairie where recent bison transplants from Yellowstone are adapting to their new home as members of the Fort Peck herd, Red Elk members "their return" to former homelands late last summer. She was among community members who greeted them with honoring songs and prayer.
Jun 7, 2024 · Lois Red Elk-Reed is a poet who calls the high plains home. She is Yellowstonian's poet in residence. She lives on the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana. Red Elk is working on a new volume of poetry and other observations. The name of her column— inyan zi—means “yellow stone” in Lakota.
