“There’s one part of my piece where I throw myself on the ground. I catch myself with my arms, and I kind of slowly lower myself and lay down. Every time a judge sees it, they are kind of left in awe,” Kai McDonald said, smiling.
A crowd of 40 people gathered at Ninepipes for the Tribal State Summit hosted by the CSKT Tribal Child Support Enforcement Program (TCSEP) to watch local performers.
As Wica-ta-wi Hoksina Brown inhabits the poem that won him the state Poetry Out Loud championship, he does so carefully, his voice almost conversational at first, then growing in strength and passion.