Tasha: "Where I'm From"

"Where I’m From"

By Tasha

Shadow Writing from George Ella Lyon Poem

I am from Alaska

From the Yupik culture

I am from the Yukon River

(Warm in the summer,

Cold in the winter)

I am from the village of Emmonak

The land of the tundra

Who’s young and curious

As everybody else

I am from the spears and the ulus

From bone and ivory

I’m from the smart and clever

And the crazy times

From the wisest

I’m from the ancestors of my parents

With a big family chain of relatives

And memories

I’m from the belly of my mom

Pius and Brenda Hoover

From the people that created me

To the world

To the people of the earth

Under the clouds and blue sky

Spilling information about me to others

A piece of me

To let the everybody know that I exist

I am from the Westside of Alaska

Clicked into my culture

Still learning and growing knowledge of my Yupik culture