“I’m honored and humbled to represent my tribe. They are and always will be my inspiration.”

Denise Lajimodiere, a citizen of the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians in Belcourt, N.D., following the bipartisan confirmation of her two-year term as the state’s poet laureate. Lajimodiere is the first Native American to hold this position in the state. (Associated Press — April 7, 2023)