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In this course we will read a range of works by Indigenous poets that address history in myriad senses: from works focused on specific historical events; to personal histories of individual figures; to histories of colonialism and resistance as broader processes structuring our present; to works that interrogate history itself as a concept through the interaction of historical narrative and collective memory. We will also read these works as themselves emerging from historical contexts which they mediate in their form and style as well as content. A range of older and contemporary works will be read ranging from single poems to book length projects with accompanying theoretical and critical texts. Throughout we will be concerned with understanding poetry as a practice that bears and transforms history, asking what reading practices are adequate to engage such works in their own context while carrying them forward into our own. To do so will be to understand ongoing Indigenous histories in the Americas as sites of revolutionary potential within global modernity.