Excerpts from the Potawatomi and Plow Creek sequence by Rich Foss

Written in the fall of 1996 and the winter of 2011, Rich Foss reflects on the inheritance of land taken from native people in Illinois.

The rain remembers 1830, the last days, when Black Hawk

and a thousand warriors danced a war dance for three days in Tiskilwa,

feet pounding and pounding in a circle,

claiming and proclaiming this place as their place,