Category: Native/Indigenous Interest

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A Snake Falls To Earth by Darcie Little Badger

A Snake Falls To Earth | Darcie Little Badger | A Snake Falls to Earth is a breathtaking work of Indigenous futurism. Darcie Little Badger draws on traditional Lipan Apache storytelling structure to

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The Woman Who Owned the Shadows by Paula Gunn Allen

Paula Gunn Allen | The Woman Who Owned the Shadows | The Woman Who Owned the Shadows is the first novel written by an American Indian woman about an Indian woman published in fifty years. The book starts

Posted in Health Native/Indigenous Interest

Grandmothers of the Light by Paula Gunn Allen

Paula Gunn Allen | Grandmothers of the Light | This extraordinary collection of goddess stories from Native American civilizations across the continent, Paula Gunn Allen shares myths that have guid

Posted in Native/Indigenous Interest Poetry

The Blind Lion by Paula Gunn Allen

Paula Gunn Allen | The Blind Lion | From The Blind Lion: ‘… You came to me / the breath of winter in your hair / and off me the tears of the blind lion / as the meaning of your solitude’

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Telling It by Sky Lee

Sky Lee | Telling It | Featuring prominent Native, Asian-Canadian and lesbian writers, Telling It is a celebration of their work and an exploration of how the power of langu

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Issue is ‘Ism by Nila Gupta

Nila Gupta | Issue is ‘Ism | This book first appeared in the 1983 Issue 16 of Fireweed, a Canadian feminist quarterly. In these pages women of colour speak about their lives for t

Posted in Black Interest Fiction Native/Indigenous Interest

The Cherokee Rose by Tiya Miles

Tiya Miles | The Cherokee Rose | Three young women are drawn to the Chief Vann House Historic Site in Chatsworth, Georgia, where scenes of extreme cruelty and equally extraordinary co

Posted in Native/Indigenous Interest Poetry

A Map To the Next World: Poems And Tales by Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo | A Map To the Next World: Poems And Tales | In her fifth book, Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American voices, melds memories, dream visions, myths, and stories from America’s brutal hist

Posted in LGBT Studies/Social Sciences Native/Indigenous Interest

The Queerness of Native American Literature by Lisa Tatonetti

Lisa Tatonetti | The Queerness of Native American Literature | In The Queerness of Native American Literature, Lisa Tatonetti recovers ties between two simultaneous renaissances of the late twentieth century: quee

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Asegi Stories by Qwo-Li Driskill

Qwo-Li Driskill | Asegi Stories | In Cherokee Asegi udanto refers to people who either fall outside of men’s and women’s roles or who mix men’s and women’s roles. Asegi, which translat