Experience Poetry from a Native Woman’s Walk in Life

The poems within these pages tell the thoughts, ideas, joys, pains, struggles, and life events of a Native American woman living within dysfunction and her way of escaping through words. They show the inside of a Lakota Sioux woman who begins writing poetry at the age of fourteen. As she grows inside, she takes you on her walk with her words. Written for the reader, you can find what is needed and learn from the wisdom within, knowing that we all go through some of the same things. Should you find poems that help you through certain situations, then, this book will be serving its purpose.

Janette Conger was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She is of the Crow Creek Sioux tribe in Fort Thompson, South Dakota. Janette began writing poetry in 1974 as a way of hiding what was going on inside, without being judged. She has four grown children and three grand- children. She continues to write poetry and is also, working on writing children's stories. Janette currently lives in Lynnwood, Washington.