Richard “Lotni” Elm-Hill is a Haudenosaunee poet, of the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin. He is the author of Bellingham: The City of Some Dude’s Excitement. He has performed in the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest and was granted an Oneida Nation Arts Program Fellowship Award from the Wisconsin Arts Board. His work was also featured in the course, The Native Creative Process, at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, and in Yukhika-latuhse Wisconsin’s Indigenous People’s Voice in Arts and Culture.

Lo’nikuhliyo’stu

(Lōte-knee-gullee-yo-stew)

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Photo Credit: Sheryl Bale Photography

Photo Credit: Sheryl Bale Photography

Photo Credit: Desirae Hill