LEANNE HOWE, born and raised in Oklahoma, is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation. Howe is the Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature at the University of Georgia.PADRAIG KIRWAN is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London.

• Contents Acknowledgments Foreword: A Word from the President of Ireland | Michael D. Higgins Foreword: A Word from the Chief of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma | Gary Batton Introduction Homeland | LeAnne Howe Recognition, Resilience, and Relief: The Meaning of Gift | Padraig Kirwan An Glaoch/Singing, Still | Doir eann Ní Ghríofa and LeAnne Howe Love Can Build a Bridge: The Choctaws’ Gift to the Irish in 1847 | Phillip Carroll Morgan An Ocean of Benevolence | Christine Kinealy Ishki, Mother, Upon Leaving the Choctaw Homelands, 1831 | LeAnne Howe I Should Have Known | Tim Tingle Ima, Give: A Choctaw Tribalography | LeAnne Howe Setting Out from Home with Louis Owens: Mixedblood Messages | Eamonn Wall Nakfiji, Brother, as He Helps Sister Load the Cart | LeAnne Howe An tAmhrán Ocrach | Doireann Ní Ghríofa Reconciliation | Jacki Thompson Rand Famine Irish Catholics, Their “Eloquent Indian” Priest, and the “Chinese Question” | Peter D. O’Neill Listen: Still, the Echo | Doireann Ní Ghríofa Postcards from Moundville | Phillip Carroll Morgan About the Contributors Permissions Index

“Famine Pots is a model of postcolonial cooperation. It is remarkable and inspiring that two nations, both of whom endured the ravages of empire, famine, and generations of discrimination, would find themselves in the other. These essays, poems, and stories deepen our understanding of what it means to be compassionate, what it means to remember, and what it means to give.”—DEAN RADER, author of Engaged Resistance: American Indian Art, Literature, and Film from Alcatraz to the NMAI and co-editor of Native Voices:Indigenous American Poetry, Craft and Conversations