>> I like the idea of hanging onto the good you can find even when most things aren't.<<
It's a necessary survival skill for reservation life.
Back in college, I took a course on Native American literature. The myths and legends were fine, but the modern stuff was downright toxic. Okay, things like alcoholism, poverty, and communal trauma are all real and need discussion -- but if the only stories about modern Indians are severely fucked up, that is damaging in the same way as Kill Your Gays. So I aim to write things that include real challenges, but also solutions, allowing both characters and readers to see a way out. Eventually other people started writing more positive Native American literature, but it took them a while. I think the first time I destroyed Europe and wrote a noncolonial Turtle Island was in junior high.
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Date: 2021-05-08 04:19 am (UTC)Yay!
>> I like the idea of hanging onto the good you can find even when most things aren't.<<
It's a necessary survival skill for reservation life.
Back in college, I took a course on Native American literature. The myths and legends were fine, but the modern stuff was downright toxic. Okay, things like alcoholism, poverty, and communal trauma are all real and need discussion -- but if the only stories about modern Indians are severely fucked up, that is damaging in the same way as Kill Your Gays. So I aim to write things that include real challenges, but also solutions, allowing both characters and readers to see a way out. Eventually other people started writing more positive Native American literature, but it took them a while. I think the first time I destroyed Europe and wrote a noncolonial Turtle Island was in junior high.
>> One question (possible typo)? <<
Fixed, thanks.