indigenous literature

“still and yet and for all times”: A First Nations Anthology That Liberates Narratives of Indigenous Identity

By Dan Disney
November 9, 2021 | Dan Disney

Mitchell River National Park, Victoria, Australia / Photo by Zac Porter / Unsplash While the landmark anthology Guwayu – For All Times: A Collection of First Nations Poems (M...
Crime and Punishment on the Rosebud: David Weiden’s Winter Counts

By Brenna O’Hara
August 18, 2021 | Brenna O’Hara

A dizzying debut with something to say and a story to tell, David Heska Wanbli Weiden’s Winter Counts (Ecco, 2020) takes crime novel conventions and recasts them in a fresh, uniquely Native...
Opening the Doorways of Recognition for Native People: A Conversation with Joy Harjo

By Crystal AC Salas
April 21, 2021 | Crystal AC Salas

Photo © Matika Wilbur For the 44th Annual Writers Week, the University of California, Riverside Department of Creative Writing, in partnership with the LA Review of...
Three Náhuatl Poems from Mexico

By Martín Tonalmeyotl
November 18, 2020 | Martín Tonalmeyotl

Tonalmeyotl is from Atzacoaloya, Chilapa de Álvarez, in the Mexican state of Guerrero / Photos courtesy of the author My Náhuatl They say my tongue Náhuatl has had her head cut off...
Poems of Recollection: Kimberly Blaeser’s Copper Yearning

June 30, 2020 | Elizabeth Rae

Photo by John Fisher Manoomin. It is the first Ojibwe word I will learn. It means wild rice, or “food that grows on water.” The sound of it is fitting. Less sibilant than rice...
Native Nonfiction in the Classroom and Beyond

June 18, 2020 | Casandra López

Detail of a Cowlitz artist’s Large Coiled Gathering Basket, ca. 1900, cedar root and beargrass, Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection, Portland Art Museum, 2012.97.11 In spring 2020 I had the oppor...
Why Teach American Indian Literature?

May 12, 2020 | Duane Niatum

Reading at the Edge of the Forest, by Marti Spencer / Courtesy of the artist The following talk was first presented at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association in Seattle, Was...
Joy Harjo’s Mo(u)rning in America

August 12, 2019 | Sarah Rebecca Warren

Photo by Shevaun Williams A well-traveled road in our collective consciousness is the question of what it means to be human. Joy Harjo is a master of this examination and delves through layers...
Father’s day poems, Holocaust survival, and more

June 19, 2015 | Laura Hernandez

News, Reviews, and Interviews Israeli writer Etgar Keret was interviewed recently on NPR. Keret discussed how he learned storytelling and survival from his father who survived the Holocaust....