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My Life: Growing Up Native in America
A moving collection of twenty powerful essays, poems, and more that capture and celebrate the modern Native American experience, featuring entries by Angeline Boulley, Madison Hammond, Kara Roselle Smith, and many more. With heart, pathos, humor, and insight, twenty renowned writers, performers, athletes, and activists explore what it means to be Native American today. Through a series of essays and poems, these luminaries give voice to their individual experiences while shedding light on the depth and complexity of modern Native American identity, resiliency, and joy. The topics are as fascinating and diverse as the creators. From Mato Wayuhi, award-winning composer of Reservation Dogs, honoring a friend who believed in his talent to New York Times bestselling author Angeline Boulley exploring what it means to feel Native enough, these entries are not only an exploration of community, they are also a call for a more just and equitable world, and a road map toward a brighter future. Edited by IllumiNative, an organization dedicated to amplifying contemporary Native voices, My Growing Up Native in America features contributions from Angeline Boulley, Philip J. Deloria, Eric Gansworth, Kimberly Guerrero, Somah Haaland, Madison Hammond, Nasugraq Rainey Hopson, Trudie Jackson, Princess Daazhraii Johnson, Lady Shug, Ahsaki Baa LaFrance-Chachere, Taietsaró Leclaire, Cece Meadows, Sherri Mitchell, Charlie Amaya Scott, Kara Roselle Smith, Vera Starbard, Dash Turner, Crystal Wahpepah, and Mato Wayuhi.
224 pages, Hardcover
Expected publication October 1, 2024
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June 29, 2024
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.” - Louise Erdrich
Just as the title says, through essays and poems, 20 Native Americans share their experience of “growing up Native in America”. Some are humorous (Timeless Wisdom: Genius Tips for Enhanced Native Living), some are poignant (I Belong), and some are heartbreaking (Growing Up Pueblo (and White) in America). Each piece is heartfelt and I thoroughly enjoyed spending my time reading each one.
Rating:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25
Read if you like:
Reading Indigenous works
Essay and Poetry collections
Learning about different cultures
Thank you Atria Books for the ARC.
Just as the title says, through essays and poems, 20 Native Americans share their experience of “growing up Native in America”. Some are humorous (Timeless Wisdom: Genius Tips for Enhanced Native Living), some are poignant (I Belong), and some are heartbreaking (Growing Up Pueblo (and White) in America). Each piece is heartfelt and I thoroughly enjoyed spending my time reading each one.
Rating:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25
Read if you like:
Reading Indigenous works
Essay and Poetry collections
Learning about different cultures
Thank you Atria Books for the ARC.
Displaying 1 of 1 review