Sovereign Bones: New Native American WritingSovereign Bones is an exploration of indigenous peoples and how they have managed to maintain separate identities, in spite of their assimilation into the broader American culture. Edited by Eric Gansworth, this collection of original writing focuses on the key role that writers and visual artists have played in the struggle of native peoples to retain their individual identities. In personal essays, memoir, and historical reflections, each writer explores the ways in which they arrived at their work and how they have retained a traditional way of life in that work. Taken as a whole, Sovereign Bones is a testimony to the resilience of indigenous cultures and the integral contributions artists make to that survival. Featured authors include: Marijo Moore, Louise Erdrich, Alex Jacobs, Heid Erdrich, Maurice Kenny, Diane Glancy, Jeanette Weaskus, Simon Ortiz. |
Contents
FROM BIG MEDICINE FROM SIX NATIONS | 11 |
Repatriating Ourselves | 19 |
THE INDIAN LIST | 25 |
RIDGE NOTES SUMMER 2006 | 33 |
WHY DO I CONTINUE TO WRITE? | 47 |
IN VINE VERITAS | 57 |
CREATION STORY | 69 |
FROM THE RESERVATION TO DAWN OF THE DEAD | 79 |
THE SOURCE OF THE DRIVE FOR MY LANGUAGE WORK | 117 |
A GHOST DANCE FOR WORDS | 129 |
MARROW MEMORY | 149 |
A NEW ENEMY | 251 |
THE NATIVE AMERICAN MOVES INTO CONTEMPORARY | 265 |
CULTURAL COLLABORATION IN THE AGE | 275 |
THROWING MOCCASINS | 281 |
BEYOND REPATRIATION | 295 |
HAKSOD | 89 |
FROM THE PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING | 97 |
WOODEN HEART DOPWIN LANGUAGE TABLE | 107 |
STUDIO SWEEPS AND RENDERING THE FATBACK | 303 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 315 |
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