Horses in Snow By Roberta Hill Whiteman (Grades 10+)

"Horses in Snow” by Roberta Hill Whiteman is a frosty depiction of life in the mountains in the middle of winter, and an exploration of hope, desire, and perseverance. An Oneida poet, fiction writer, essayist, and scholar, Hill Whiteman’s work explores the juxtaposition of ancestral Indigenous culture and formal Western approaches to verse. Her poetry has been anthologized in Harper’s Anthology of Twentieth Century Native American Poetry, The Third Woman: Minority Women Writers of the United States, and Carriers of the Dream Wheel: Contemporary Native American Poetry. She is a professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and she has led Poets-in-the-Schools programs across the United States.