Whereas is a 2017 collection of poetry written by Oglala Lakota author, Layli Long Soldier.

Res 14,[1] a congressional apology and resolution to the native peoples of the United States.

Whereas is a personal reaction to this and a documentation of life as a member of the Oglala Sioux tribe.

Natalie Diaz of The New York Times hails, “Long Soldier reminds readers of their physical and linguistic bodies as they are returned to language through their mouths and eyes and tongues across the fields of her poems.

"[3] In The Los Angeles Times, John Freeman writes, "She has rubbed two languages together and made their shared silences into gravel — paving a perch from which a reader can see clearly.