10/15/2026
Congratulations Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees!! Indian Ice: Indigenous Witness is in the world and making the rounds.
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Award winning Mvskoke/Scottish American poet and Harvard graduate Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees grew up in the American South learning how to suppress her Mvskoke heritage from outsiders. The poems in Indian Ice: Indigenous Witness/Estv-Cate’ Het’ute bear witness to her transformative journey from suppressing her Mvskoke heritage to embracing her bicultural identity. Traversing a thirty-year span from 1994 to 2024, this remarkable collection addresses ice-cold colonial resistance alongside the fiery allurement of nature and nurture—decolonizing antidotes. Heleswv heres, mvto.
“As the Tribal Chair/CEO of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, it is my honor to know Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees. Her passion and love for Mvskoke Creek culture beams like an array of sunshine. Her intellectual work and wise words that she shares will hopefully inspire others to go and do great things in the world.“
–Stephanie A. Bryan, Tribal Chair/CEO of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians
“Indian Ice is a marvelous collection of Indigenous poetry by Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees. Imbued with Mvskoke Creek culture, her dramatic verses bring us into the heart and soul of modern-day Native America. Read the compositions—and feel the flame.
–Dr. Walter Echo-Hawk, Author of The Sea of Grass
The poet Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees writes with fire and passion. The lyrical beauty of this collection of stories from the Indigenous Americas engages our troubled times. Eschewing easy answers, the poems offer in the words of the Dees, “protection, healing, restoration.” Indian Ice establishes Dees as one of the nation’s preeminent poets of everyday life and universal truths.
–Dr. Paul Ortiz, Author of An African American and Latinx History of the United States
