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Those Who Belong: Identity, Family, Blood and Citizenship among the White Earth Anishinaabeg (Jill Doerfler)
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"By My Heart": Gerald Vizenor's Almost Ashore and Bear Island: The War at Sugar Point
Gerald Vizenor's 2006 publications Almost Ashore and Bear Island: The War at Sugar Point illuminate Anishinaabe nationhood, citizenship, and self-determiniation through an ironic transnational framework constituted from a particular landscape, set of stories, relationships, and memory. Through the apparatus of poetry, and specifically through the lens of "by my heart" (a phrase that echoes through Vizenor's collections), Vizenor reveals Anishinaabeg determining the locales and ideals of the nation, despite discourses of dominance that would preordain and reduce Anishinaabe experience to an urban/reservation dichotomy and normalize colonial conquest
"Métis": Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood (Chris Andersen)
Book review of Chris Andersen's Méti
Going Home
The notion that 'you can never go home again' may well be true for some. When examined through the lens of an hyphenate Ani yun wiya identity, however, it may become clear that some will find themselves at home, some may work to get home, but either way respect requires allowing home to be what it has become. After the last five hundred years, the changes of a handful of decades are hardly a game ender. Even in this altered light home might recognize the traveler
Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823 (Catharine Brown)
This article is a book review
Wakpa Wanagi, Ghost River (Trevino Brings Plenty)
Review of Trevino Brings Plenty's book of poetry, Wakpa Wanagi, Ghost River
Howling for Justice: New Perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead (Rebecca Tillett, ed.)
Review of Howling for Justice: New Perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead edited by Rebecca Tillet
The Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Band (Frances Washburn)
Book review of Frances Washburn's The Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Ban