tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470550054174190552024-03-27T16:42:05.551-04:00Blue Hand Books de-colonizing book publishing since 2011LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447055005417419055.post-23371254152446358832024-03-07T16:07:00.002-05:002024-03-07T16:07:22.303-05:00Wandering Stars<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_kz05zEro-Kqn191N6ezqp8Y24v8mcQ-rkL1DhAhhpRTNp1PWSZpKCbqk8m1yOTJSkcF20tLQyuo4TbRzqHIrPyvlAahvFd0DjGoMgiy_xoh6h14Mv-K9GMCQG79mUOFdLwiwlnt3733_-Isdhhs98qXWPdqU9eQ0-aeVrEpkAT24gED97YvfhECQ3rI/s1024/030524-Tommy-Orange-PHOTO-profile-photo-by-Michael-Lionstar-courtesy-1024x576.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_kz05zEro-Kqn191N6ezqp8Y24v8mcQ-rkL1DhAhhpRTNp1PWSZpKCbqk8m1yOTJSkcF20tLQyuo4TbRzqHIrPyvlAahvFd0DjGoMgiy_xoh6h14Mv-K9GMCQG79mUOFdLwiwlnt3733_-Isdhhs98qXWPdqU9eQ0-aeVrEpkAT24gED97YvfhECQ3rI/w640-h360/030524-Tommy-Orange-PHOTO-profile-photo-by-Michael-Lionstar-courtesy-1024x576.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/wandering-stars" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><em>Wandering Stars</em></a>, the new novel by <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2156371/tommy-orange/"><strong>Tommy Orange</strong></a>
(Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma), weaves together the complex
history of the Boarding School Era as witnessed by the ancestors to the
characters in his best-selling debut novel, <em>There, There</em>. The experiences make up a constellation of experiences
that define the characters and inform how all of us understand modern
Native existence as only Orange’s prose can.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"></span></p><blockquote>"No one knows how to express tenderness and yearning like Tommy
Orange. With an all-seeing heart, he traces historical and contemporary
cruelties, vagaries, salvations and solutions visited upon young
Cheyenne people, who cope with the impossible. In them, Tommy finds the
unnerving strength that results when a broken spirit mends itself, when a
wandering star finds its place, when, in spite of everything, Native
people manage to survive." —Louise Erdrich</blockquote><p></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller <em><a data-mce-href="https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/there-there" href="https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/there-there" title="There There by Tommy Orange">There There</a></em>
delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel.
Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future,
Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and
the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a
family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><b>Colorado, 1864</b>. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is
brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn
English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical
prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial
School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history,
culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent
to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his
father's jailer. Under Pratt's harsh treatment, Charles clings to
moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two
envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows
their bloodlines.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><b>Oakland, 2018.</b> Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her
family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her
nephew Orvil. From the moment he awakens in his hospital bed, Orvil
begins compulsively googling school shootings on YouTube. He also
becomes emotionally reliant on the prescription medications meant to
ease his physical trauma. His younger brother, Lony, suffering from
PTSD, is struggling to make sense of the carnage he witnessed at the
shooting by secretly cutting himself and enacting blood rituals that he
hopes will connect him to his Cheyenne heritage. Opal is equally adrift,
experimenting with Ceremony and peyote, searching for a way to heal her
wounded family.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Tommy Orange once again delivers a story that is piercing in its
poetry, sorrow, and rage and is a devastating indictment of America's
war on its own people. <a href="https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/wandering-stars" target="_blank">BUY</a></span></p><p><iframe frameborder="0" height="30" scrolling="no" src="https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/?powerpress_embed=27998-podcast&powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio" title="Blubrry Podcast Player" width="320"></iframe></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Use the contact form on this blog! Get in touch! Megwetch!</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447055005417419055.post-9446445234698631152024-02-02T10:08:00.004-05:002024-02-02T10:08:59.649-05:00Never Whistle at Night: Canada First Nations Dark Fiction<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> Spooky?<a class="" href="https://windspeaker.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b5f07cdffd4f6a67f590589ec&id=84f7348ee7&e=9fae5b165a" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;" target="_blank" title="">
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 16px;">Tension, horror and then terror are the elements of a good scary story, and <em>Never Whistle at Night</em>
has it all in 26 tales that will keep readers turning the pages and
listening for things that go bump in the dark. Co-editor Shane Hawk
talks with <em>Windspeaker</em> about the collection.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Gatekeepers, says Shane Hawk, co-editor of the dark fiction anthology <em>Never Whistle at Night</em>, are one reason why Indigenous writers have only broken into the horror genre in the last decade or so.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“I think it's a marketability thing where there’s been historically
gatekeepers who have allowed who can be published,” said Hawk.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“I think now more people are seeing that, ‘hey, Indigenous people can
write genre as well’,” says Hawk, who calls San Diego home.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">He and co-editor Theodore G. Van Alst Jr. were in the position of
gatekeepers in 2021 when they put out an open call for emerging
Indigenous writers to submit something “dark and scary.” Hawk admits he
didn’t know what kind of response they would get, and they had a hard
time selecting from the more than 100 submissions received.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">KEEP READING : <a href="https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/established-emerging-indigenous-authors-produce-disturbing-fiction-dark">https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/established-emerging-indigenous-authors-produce-disturbing-fiction-dark<br /></a></span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 16px;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 16px;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><em>Never Whistle at Night</em> can be purchased online at <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Never-Whistle-Night-Indigenous-Settled-ebook/dp/B0BZ3J6JT4" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.ca/Never-Whistle-Night-Indigenous-Settled-ebook/dp/B0BZ3J6JT4</a></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 16px;"> </span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Use the contact form on this blog! Get in touch! Megwetch!</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447055005417419055.post-13076424585802512162024-01-31T12:20:00.002-05:002024-01-31T12:20:24.760-05:00The Berry Pickers<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcILiX9B8Jp8vOfzBzbcD3_6IItHyLH7ZyZqvdxKJrw4_uDAnWsHfsRNaDEZTdblx6C7TK5nr-jJLboT0Nzg2A9myiqk0BuWlf3F59FstjvjF1clVNhGJO6m1b0_HIPCbPtHDQLCTW5MBcHCZQqbG2LduX8yUraa-GFuL_YiiRNW7zmQRrpGCwrp6IxL8/s800/Screenshot%202024-01-31%20at%2012-14-07%20January%20Virtual%20Book%20Club%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Berry%20Pickers%20A%20Novel.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="800" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcILiX9B8Jp8vOfzBzbcD3_6IItHyLH7ZyZqvdxKJrw4_uDAnWsHfsRNaDEZTdblx6C7TK5nr-jJLboT0Nzg2A9myiqk0BuWlf3F59FstjvjF1clVNhGJO6m1b0_HIPCbPtHDQLCTW5MBcHCZQqbG2LduX8yUraa-GFuL_YiiRNW7zmQRrpGCwrp6IxL8/w640-h356/Screenshot%202024-01-31%20at%2012-14-07%20January%20Virtual%20Book%20Club%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Berry%20Pickers%20A%20Novel.png" width="640" /></a></i></div><i><br />Above: The Berry Pickers: A Novel</i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by Amanda Peters (Mi’kmaq Descent). </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The novel begins in July 1962 when a</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Mi’kmaq
family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the
summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child,
vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a
favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught
by his sister’s disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl
named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father
is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. As she
grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her
parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will
spend decades trying to uncover this family secret. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqeF-9aVWYxqlIqOLxvcB7bQgKU72nrcAupEcrKRamO9r_6OHvKtbx_7PoGS2X1IBYi0bHk97fxS1VxIw8MKm6C0ZpsgfSjJfaydJAJSAZd0RQWp43jQMcmslB0hocnumbA8Mb8EDL5FH1jwdLn90MDQlJp_tcwaa7R2j9EVTnx5aSiod0Xp0dropyVS0/s267/Screenshot%202024-01-31%20at%2012-16-50%20The%20Berry%20Pickers%20at%20DuckDuckGo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="239" data-original-width="267" height="573" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqeF-9aVWYxqlIqOLxvcB7bQgKU72nrcAupEcrKRamO9r_6OHvKtbx_7PoGS2X1IBYi0bHk97fxS1VxIw8MKm6C0ZpsgfSjJfaydJAJSAZd0RQWp43jQMcmslB0hocnumbA8Mb8EDL5FH1jwdLn90MDQlJp_tcwaa7R2j9EVTnx5aSiod0Xp0dropyVS0/w640-h573/Screenshot%202024-01-31%20at%2012-16-50%20The%20Berry%20Pickers%20at%20DuckDuckGo.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <br /><p></p>
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<div class="book-detail__tagline"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">A monumental gathering showcasing diverse approaches to Indigenous concepts, forms and
mediums. This landmark volume is a gathering of over 60 Native North American
contemporary artists, musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, architects,
writers, photographers, designers and more. Conceived by Jeffrey
Gibson, a renowned artist of Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee descent,
An Indigenous Present presents an increasingly visible and
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histories, to create a visual experience that foregrounds diverse
approaches to concept, form and medium as well as connection, influence,
conversation and collaboration. An Indigenous Present foregrounds
transculturalism over affiliation and contemporaneity over outmoded
categories.</span></p><div class="mb-8">
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This is a gorgeous coffee table book that offers a visual
delight of art by the leading practitioners of contemporary art from the
Native American, Alaska Native, Inuit, and First Nations
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Megwetch!</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447055005417419055.post-6272444685829026142023-12-29T09:21:00.009-05:002024-03-01T16:13:00.812-05:00Activist Author Announces Project to Count Native Children Adopted into Non-Native Families<div class="nLG8d5 Ndelkt" data-hook="post-description"><article class="blog-post-page-font"><div class="post-content__body"><div class="moHCnT"><div class="moHCnT"><div class="fTEXDR A2sIZ4 QEEfz0" data-rce-version="9.16.6" style="--rce-active-divider-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); --rce-divider-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); --rce-header-five-font-size: 18px; --rce-header-four-font-size: 20px; --rce-header-six-font-size: 16px; --rce-header-three-font-size: 22px; --rce-header-two-font-size: 28px; --rce-highlighted-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); --rce-link-hashtag-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); --rce-mobile-font-size: 16px; --rce-mobile-header-five-font-size: 20px; --rce-mobile-header-four-font-size: 20px; --rce-mobile-header-six-font-size: 20px; --rce-mobile-header-three-font-size: 20px; --rce-mobile-header-two-font-size: 24px; --rce-mobile-quotes-font-size: 20px; --rce-opaque-background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); --rce-text-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="itVXy dojW8l s6hjqn _8a1b4" data-id="rich-content-viewer" dir="ltr"><div class="mhGZq BAGeNT"><div class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-cfpiz10024"><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJkSHMrZApMuNZvdTqbbU2OjW7D9nNcWSKTKllvFaK41uJEp-kSNjrGUCrm_OuJgZM35yeLhL0GBftEOXUguh3FlFgXgKWkk_rhlaf9MvQzqrAsHYjuk3xRMsv94BXbhGXu2nMG5uxskcJYX1MeedBFE68Z182Bn1TPkYjCOb67fhFOJqZajNLbRLwCU4/s639/Screenshot%202023-12-19%20at%2016-19-31%20Kindle%20Cover%20Creator.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a></div></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIw0Kc9Jzu-T1dBsTLGf2Ii_Hvv-4UhcjDOP_Z0hPyW-PovTabusaMxIJQZ9WikqVtw8vl6ZElemcRxp1IoqjYutxfOCIRcbkOsYmOYp_GlE4i8vXaPmYPe18iZqRgd4c6QOBBmmovNU8sy7kwtG5bNCC2arhM0C4-fUCq80rRKNM2heYVnIG1jFOcwNM/s537/Screenshot%202024-03-01%20at%2015-47-19%20AMERICAN%20INDIAN%20ADOPTEES.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="337" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIw0Kc9Jzu-T1dBsTLGf2Ii_Hvv-4UhcjDOP_Z0hPyW-PovTabusaMxIJQZ9WikqVtw8vl6ZElemcRxp1IoqjYutxfOCIRcbkOsYmOYp_GlE4i8vXaPmYPe18iZqRgd4c6QOBBmmovNU8sy7kwtG5bNCC2arhM0C4-fUCq80rRKNM2heYVnIG1jFOcwNM/s320/Screenshot%202024-03-01%20at%2015-47-19%20AMERICAN%20INDIAN%20ADOPTEES.png" width="201" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://a.co/d/8tdb7xK">https://a.co/d/8tdb7xK</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr"><br /></span><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span>GREENFIELD, Mass., Dec. 27, 2023 — Adoptee activist, award-winning journalist and author Trace Hentz, who created the American Indian Adoptees <a class="TWoY9 itht3" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://blog.americanindianadoptees.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a> in 2009, has announced a new project, “THE COUNT 2024.” It will coincide with the release of a new history book, “Almost Dead Indians: Atrocity” Book 5 in the Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects series.</span></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block5" type="paragraph"></div><p class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-2qefs118"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span>When Hentz moved to Massachusetts in 2004 she began to tirelessly investigate numerous adoption programs, such as the Indian Adoption Projects and ARENA (The Adoption Resource Exchange of America). Both involved moving (trafficking) Native American babies and children across North America into adoptions with non-Native families. </span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block6" type="paragraph"></div><div class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-dfac8271"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span></span></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block7" type="empty-line"></div><p class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-1lqdx120"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span>After her 2009 memoir, “One Small Sacrifice” and a second edition, which followed in 2012, Hentz met more adoptees and asked them to write their personal narratives, which resulted in five anthologies: “Two Worlds: Lost Children” (2012), “Called Home: The RoadMap,” (updated second edition, 2016), and “Stolen Generations: Survivors of the Indian Adoption Projects and 60s Scoop” (2016). A poetry collection on the same topic, “In The Veins,” the fourth book in the series, was published in 2017. "Almost Dead Indians" is BOOK 5 (2024).<br /></span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block8" type="paragraph"></div><div class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-264xs385"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span></span></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block9" type="empty-line"></div><p class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-y6ayg122"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span>“In these closed (sealed) adoptions, adoptees are unable to access the vital information they need to find their tribal families and communities,” Hentz said. “This new history book, “Almost Dead Indians,” with a lengthy chapter I wrote, titled “Disappeared,” which is about our history, ties in how these government-funded programs were run by churches and charities and were meant to erase children permanently from tribal rolls, making us dead Indians — almost.”</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block10" type="paragraph"></div><div class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-z8f5q534"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span></span></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block11" type="empty-line"></div><p class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-lovha124"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span>“Most people have heard how the governments of Canada and the United States ran residential boarding schools like the first U.S. school, which was Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania,” Hentz said. “Today, tribes are finding unmarked graves at these schools. I realized after 20 years that we deserve to see the numbers on these various federal and state-run adoption programs. We need “THE COUNT 2024” of Native American and First Nations adoptees to solidify facts and see actual numbers of adoptees in these government-funded projects that crisscrossed the U.S. and Canada.”</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block12" type="paragraph"></div><div class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-pk0y5662"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span></span></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block13" type="empty-line"></div><p class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-wfpvq126"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span>“Neither government has been forthcoming and some academics who looked at available reports claim nearly 13,000 children were adopted in the U.S., some by force and some by gunpoint,” Hentz said. “In Canada, they have already settled a class action lawsuit with adoptees called the Sixties Scoop.”</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block14" type="paragraph"></div><div class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-45ljc829"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span></span></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block15" type="empty-line"></div><p class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-a6man128"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span>Hentz recommends the new PBS series “Little Bird” to understand what happened in Canada also happened in the U.S.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block16" type="paragraph"></div><div class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-7wcaj971"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span></span></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block17" type="empty-line"></div><p class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ldaqo130"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span>“Before first grade, I knew I was adopted, that these people were not my birthparents,” Hentz said. “I wasn’t sure what happened but it took me a lifetime to open my adoption file and finally meet my relatives.” Hentz had a reunion in 1994 with her birthfather Earl Bland in Illinois when she was 38 years old. Since then, she has found her ancestry includes Shawnee and Anishinaabe.</span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block18" type="paragraph"></div><div class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-h69ob1102"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span></span></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block19" type="empty-line"></div><p class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-j5o9e132"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">Hentz got the idea of a count when she could not find reliable information. “I set up a new website: <a class="TWoY9 itht3" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://thecount2024.blogspot.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thecount2024.blogspot.com</a>. Native American and First Nations adoptees simply fill out survey.” She hopes people will share this link and get the word out. “The COUNT” began January 1, 2024.</span></blockquote><p></p><div data-hook="rcv-block20" type="paragraph"></div><div class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ebhwd1298"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg838DteqTMIZhzFsVPW2vgEpby44cwKYV_57aFxFP5fUwXWNNSuZifPWGxAveL7QNbthcZv0JQvTh2kIpxyRoh-c1tQgU1XKbCaaf3yWnyVWqh3m0GnGrd7X_F9Shbb62ZRp3OpmHAFGHy0-DrwqcDKomV6QN9aO3ofIH4EMegrzjCL51G36f8_Vhcdq8/s364/OSS%20COVER_growing%20up%20in%20Wisc_edited.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="260" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg838DteqTMIZhzFsVPW2vgEpby44cwKYV_57aFxFP5fUwXWNNSuZifPWGxAveL7QNbthcZv0JQvTh2kIpxyRoh-c1tQgU1XKbCaaf3yWnyVWqh3m0GnGrd7X_F9Shbb62ZRp3OpmHAFGHy0-DrwqcDKomV6QN9aO3ofIH4EMegrzjCL51G36f8_Vhcdq8/s320/OSS%20COVER_growing%20up%20in%20Wisc_edited.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><br /></span><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span>Hentz’s new book, “Almost Dead Indians,” will be available soon at Bookshop. <br /></span></span></div><div class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ebhwd1298"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ebhwd1298"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span>HER AUTHOR PAGE: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/author/tracelhentz">https://www.amazon.com/author/tracelhentz<br /></a></span></span></div><div class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ebhwd1298"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span>Visit: <a class="TWoY9 itht3" data-hook="linkViewer" href="http://www.blueindianbooks.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.blueindianbooks.com</a> or <a class="TWoY9 itht3" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://blog.americanindianadoptees.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://blog.americanindianadoptees.com</a></span></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block22" type="paragraph"></div><div class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-ceclr1464"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span><br role="presentation" /></span></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block23" type="empty-line"></div><p class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-k9t49141"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span></span></span></p><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span><br />About Blue Hand Books:</span></span><p></p><div data-hook="rcv-block24" type="paragraph"></div><div class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-8e30i1655"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span></span></span></div><div data-hook="rcv-block25" type="empty-line"></div><p class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-pp7dn143"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span>Blue Hand Books, based in Greenfield, Massachusetts, on Pocumtuckland, celebrated its 12th anniversary on November 11, 2023. To date, the collective has published 28 book titles. Founder and award-winning journalist Trace Hentz (formerly DeMeyer) embraced and adopted the idea to decolonize book publishing for other Indigenous writers with a collective that supports each writer, helping them to produce a paperback book, providing proofing and editing and allows them to keep 100% of their book royalties. Blue Hand Books was created to be community and a collective for Indigenous authors. For more information, contact: Blue Hand Books, Trace L. Hentz, Publisher, 25 Keegan Lane, Suite 8-C, Greenfield, MA 01301. </span></span></p><p class="xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr" id="viewer-pp7dn143"><span class="B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://www.lcotribe.com/post/activist-author-announces-project-to-count-native-children-adopted-into-non-native-families" target="_blank">https://www.lcotribe.com/post/activist-author-announces-project-to-count-native-children-adopted-into-non-native-families </a></span></span></p><div data-hook="rcv-block26" type="paragraph"></div><div data-hook="rcv-block-last" type="last"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></article></div><span class="tmHsxH blog-separator-background-color"></span><p> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Use the contact form on this blog! Get in touch! 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<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta believes the publishing industry is changing for Indigenous writers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“I think it's growing,” said Wayne Arthurson, who is of Cree and French-Canadian descent.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“It used to be, maybe even 10 years ago, they have the one or two big
name Indigenous writers … and a lot of publishers didn't look outside
that… But now I think it's much more open because there's a lot of
Indigenous writers who are having books out there that are successful.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Arthurson has been writing for more than 30 years. <em>Final Season</em>,
his first of eight novels, was published in 2002, and he’s had five
non-fiction books published since 2012. He’s written more than 200
articles for magazines and newspapers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">About a year-and-a-half ago, he became a literary agent with <b>The
Rights Factory</b>. One of his focuses is to represent Indigenous writers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Arthurson points to the lack of both Indigenous agents and Indigenous editors in the book business.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“It's hard for Indigenous writers to get someone who sort of
understands some aspects of being Indigenous. No one understands all of
it because we're all different, but there's some (shared) aspects about
it,” said Arthurson.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">He presently represents a few Indigenous writers, including one for
which he has “a deal.” He is hopeful about landing more deals in the
future.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Arthurson also points out that Indigenous writers are being accepted
in a variety of different genres. There’s been acclaimed Indigenous
writers in horror, science fiction, young adult and children’s fiction.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Arthurson himself has won awards for his crime writing, with his novel <em>Fall from Grace</em> winning the 2012 Alberta Readers' Choice Award and his novella <em>The Red Chesterfield</em> winning the 2020 Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">See our article about Fall from Grace <a href="https://www.ammsa.com/publications/alberta-sweetgrass/actions-flawed-main-character-keep-readers-%E2%80%94-and-writer-%E2%80%94-guessing" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">He also notes that more Indigenous writers are being sought to sit on
juries to award prizes and grants for Indigenous and non-Indigenous
writers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Indigenous writers are also becoming more popular as
writers-in-residence. In 2016, Arthurson held the position with the
Edmonton Public Library. This year, the University of Calgary’s
Distinguished Writers Program sees Francine Cunningham, a member of the
Saddle Lake Cree Nation in northern Alberta, as writer-in-residence.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Arthurson hopes that both budding Indigenous writers and more
seasoned ones will see his longevity in the industry as a sign of what
they, too, can accomplish or at least understand that they, too, can
have a book published.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Who knows, he says, he may even get introduced to his next writer to
represent in the next six months or so. As writer-in-residence he only
reads and critiques 10 to 15 pages from a manuscript, he points out.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“I'm not seeing a whole chunk of their work because of my time. I
can't read a whole novel…but there's always that possibility if later on
when I'm no longer the writer-in-residence and someone's work has
attracted my attention, I could ask to see more. There's always that
potential of that coming,” he said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">He admits he’s seen some promising work already, having started his position Sept. 1.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">As for providing input on the brief number of pages he does read,
Arthurson says being Indigenous and “becoming more open to my Indigenous
background” does in some ways inform his responses.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“I think I probably would pick out maybe certain things that may be
connected to Indigenous storytelling, but…just from my point of view as a
writer for the past 30 years, I pick things out that they may not see
and that happens with all writers. You work on something for such a long
time, sometimes they're blind to things in the text…and then someone
with fresh eyes comes in and says, ‘Oh, did you notice this? Or did you
notice that?’” he said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">But one thing Arthurson is clear on is that he never tells a writer
what to do or how to write. He shares with them what his experience has
taught him.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">He calls his approach “wholistic in a way because there's many ways
of being a writer I've discovered. It's not just the one way or one
style or one way of looking at it. There's so many different ways of
being a writer, regardless of your background or where you come from.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">He says the best advice he ever received was to write about
characters or situations you care about instead of writing about
something you know.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“You feel more invested in it and then you should care about the
story. Then you'll enjoy writing it better and then you also move out
from writing only just what you know and trying to learn more about the
world and find other ways of telling a story,” he said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">One piece of advice he doesn’t subscribe to is that writers need to
write every day or hit a per day word quota and if they don’t do that
then they aren’t really writers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“You just find your own path for writing and do it your own way and
if that works for you, then that works for you,” said Arthurson. “There
are times when I do (write every day). There's times when I don't. I
just find my own way.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">But whatever way a writer embraces the work, Arthurson says writing
is hard to do. There’s always the challenge of finding a different or
new way to tell a story. Or having a debut novel under sell, so getting
that second novel picked up by a publisher becomes a challenge.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“I enjoy writing, but it's still hard work. It doesn't get easier as it goes along,” he said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Being a writer-in-residence provides Arthurson with paid time to
focus on his own writing. He’s presently doing the edits on the final
draft of a novel and, when that’s done, he’ll be restarting another
novel that he’s about half-way through.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Arthurson will be at the University of Alberta until May 31, 2024. He
invites Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers to contact him at <a href="mailto:arthurso@ualberta.ca" target="_blank">arthurso@ualberta.ca</a>. He also invites writing groups to reach out.</span></p>
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Weso grew up in a time of economic transformation – when commodity
goods were eaten alongside game from Wisconsin’s Northwoods. And then
there was the rise of processed foods.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">He often wrote about food. Here he is speaking in a 2021 interview with Wisconsin Historical Society Press.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“We
should think about where food comes from. Because if we think where
food comes from, we’ll take better care of the land around us.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Weso’s wife, the writer Denise Low, says he was interested in writing about Indigenous people in the present.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“He
had a very zen sense of like, “What’s here now?” and not “what were
Indians like, or Indigenous people like, 100 years ago? Here we are
now.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><b>Thomas Pecore Weso</b> (1953-2023) was an author, educator, artist, and enrolled member of the Menominee Indian Nation of Wisconsin. His book <i>Good Seeds: A Menominee Indian Food Memoir</i>,
published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press in 2016, was
reviewed widely and won a national Gourmand Award. He also wrote many
articles and personal essays, a biography of Langston Hughes with
coauthor Denise Low, and the children's book <i>Native American Stories for Kids</i>
(Rockridge Press, 2022), which was named a 2023 Kansas Notable Book.
Weso was an alumnus of Haskell Indian Nations University and the
University of Kansas, where he earned a master's degree in Indigenous
studies. He died in Sonoma County, California, on July 14, 2023. <br /></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-27537" class="wp-image-27537 size-medium" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://i0.wp.com/nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20163801/Weso_author-photo-bw-264x300.jpg?resize=264%2C300&ssl=1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="264" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Courtesy Wisconsin Historical Society Press</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_27537" style="width: 274px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Please purchase on BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/a/17780/9781976600210</span><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-27537"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> <br /> <br /></span></p><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-27537"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> </span></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Use the contact form on this blog! Get in touch! Megwetch!</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447055005417419055.post-30380063200950604962023-11-13T19:11:00.003-05:002023-11-13T19:13:56.171-05:00Where to submit your writing?<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic9AGo5oWxCHHSTqe9jdjxlqojb1_p6Qz_QGQ3aictPZ-AIbptHdJlb5ehszM2hhrjTbnyI-qXAk8PMVnnMdwJH73NsGQiJ8C25KtTpLeItQ_VKOj7CSvr_jVTHCSfQmtiBod-IekZaQZHP67FazZjrmRQ-lp_AfHnyeZyvz2FA8RLdnqh2gqXk3EGagk/s300/share%20button.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="300" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic9AGo5oWxCHHSTqe9jdjxlqojb1_p6Qz_QGQ3aictPZ-AIbptHdJlb5ehszM2hhrjTbnyI-qXAk8PMVnnMdwJH73NsGQiJ8C25KtTpLeItQ_VKOj7CSvr_jVTHCSfQmtiBod-IekZaQZHP67FazZjrmRQ-lp_AfHnyeZyvz2FA8RLdnqh2gqXk3EGagk/w200-h193/share%20button.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> sent from <a href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=1030378596&msgid=2018237&act=11D0&c=392855&pid=5075102&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.writersrelief.com%2F%3Futm_source%3DiContact%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dwr-new-swn-from-rls-at-writers-relief%26utm_content%3DSWN%2B1%2Byear%2BUNOPENS%2B11.13.23&cf=31461&v=08196133c12d2d9ddfbe5598f024b0ab1f707d503ba5d74d07ccee12831cda20" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" style="color: #5c3300; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">www.WritersRelief.com</a></span></span><p></p>
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<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13px;">Coverstory Books Short Story Anthology</b></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Deadline: 11/30/2023</span></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Submission Link: </span><a href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=1030378596&msgid=2018237&act=11D0&c=392855&pid=5075102&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwritersrelief.com%2Ffeatured-listings-contests-journals-calls-for-submissions%2F&cf=31461&v=1cbc05c49a29bcbc63bdc7230db0c91508b7b0a23241a43252ded965edb67f74" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" style="color: blue; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Coverstory Books Short Story Anthology</a></p>
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<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13px;">Meadowlark Press Birdy Poetry Prize</b></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Deadline: 12/1/2023</span></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Submission Link: </span><a href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=1030378596&msgid=2018237&act=11D0&c=392855&pid=5075102&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwritersrelief.com%2Ffeatured-listings-contests-journals-calls-for-submissions%2F&cf=31461&v=1cbc05c49a29bcbc63bdc7230db0c91508b7b0a23241a43252ded965edb67f74" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" style="color: blue; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Meadowlark Press Birdy Poetry Prize</a></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Entry Fee: $25</span></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">First Prize: $1,000, 50 copies</span></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Genre: Poetry Collections</span></p>
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<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13px;">Story Foundation Prize </b></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Deadline: 12/15/2023</span></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Submission Link: </span><a href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=1030378596&msgid=2018237&act=11D0&c=392855&pid=5075102&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwritersrelief.com%2Ffeatured-listings-contests-journals-calls-for-submissions%2F&cf=31461&v=1cbc05c49a29bcbc63bdc7230db0c91508b7b0a23241a43252ded965edb67f74" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" style="color: blue; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Story Foundation Prize </a></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Entry Fee: $25</span></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">First Prize: $1,500</span></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Genre: Short Stories</span></p>
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<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13px;">Good Hart Artist Residency </b></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Location: Good Hart, MI</span></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Deadline: 1/8/2024</span></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Submission Link: </span><a href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=1030378596&msgid=2018237&act=11D0&c=392855&pid=5075102&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwritersrelief.com%2Ffeatured-listings-contests-journals-calls-for-submissions%2F&cf=31461&v=1cbc05c49a29bcbc63bdc7230db0c91508b7b0a23241a43252ded965edb67f74" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" style="color: blue; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Good Hart Artist Residency </a></p>
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<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Deadline: 12/1/2023</span></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Submission Link: </span><a href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=1030378596&msgid=2018237&act=11D0&c=392855&pid=5075102&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwritersrelief.com%2Ffeatured-listings-contests-journals-calls-for-submissions%2F&cf=31461&v=1cbc05c49a29bcbc63bdc7230db0c91508b7b0a23241a43252ded965edb67f74" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" style="color: blue; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Five Points James Dickey Prize for Poetry</a></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Entry Fee: $25</span></p>
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<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Submission Link: </span><a href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=1030378596&msgid=2018237&act=11D0&c=392855&pid=5075102&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwritersrelief.com%2Ffeatured-listings-contests-journals-calls-for-submissions%2F&cf=31461&v=1cbc05c49a29bcbc63bdc7230db0c91508b7b0a23241a43252ded965edb67f74" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" style="color: blue; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Slipstream Press Poetry Chapbook Contest</a></p>
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<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Deadline: 12/1/2023</span></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Submission Link: </span><a href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=1030378596&msgid=2018237&act=11D0&c=392855&pid=5075102&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwritersrelief.com%2Ffeatured-listings-contests-journals-calls-for-submissions%2F&cf=31461&v=1cbc05c49a29bcbc63bdc7230db0c91508b7b0a23241a43252ded965edb67f74" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" style="color: blue; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Regal House Publishing W.S. Porter Prize for Short Story Collections</a></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Entry Fee: $25</span></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">First Prize: $1,000</span></p>
<p class="paragraph-spacing-none" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Genre: Short Story Collections</span></p>
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<h3 class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Virtual
Reading and Conversation with Oscar Hokeah (Cherokee/Kiowa), author of
the award winning novel --Calling for a Blanket Dance—</span></b></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="font-family: Merriweather;">Cherokee/Kiowa author Oscar Hokeah reads from his award winning debut novel and is in conversation with KU students.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Nov 22, 2023, 6:00 pm CET</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><b>Zoom link:
</b><b><span lang="DE"><a href="https://kuei.zoom.us/j/68415569345?pwd=TFVQK1lVYUo3Slgrem5lUElIY1VkZz09" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">kuei.zoom.us/j/68415569345</span></a></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="font-family: Merriweather;">Winner of the PEN America/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><b><i>“A
profound reflection on the intergenerational nature of cultural trauma…
Hokeah’s characters exist at the intersection of Kiowa, Cherokee and
Mexican identity, which provides
a vital exploration of indigeneity in contemporary American letters.”<br />
—The New York Times Book Review</i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">About the novel:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Oscar
Hokeah’s electric debut takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle,
whose family—part Mexican, part Native American—is determined to hold
onto their community despite obstacles
everywhere they turn. Ever’s father is injured at the hands of corrupt
police on the border when he goes to visit family in Mexico, while his
mother struggles both to keep her job and care for her husband. And
young Ever is lost and angry at all that he doesn’t
understand, at this world that seems to undermine his sense of safety.
Ever’s relatives all have ideas about who he is and who he should be.
His Cherokee grandmother, knowing the importance of proximity, urges the
family to move across Oklahoma to be near
her, while his grandfather, watching their traditions slip away, tries
to reunite Ever with his heritage through traditional gourd dances.
Through it all, every relative wants the same: to remind Ever of the
rich and supportive communities that surround him,
there to hold him tight, and for Ever to learn to take the strength
given to him to save not only himself but also the next generation.<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br />
How will this young man visualize a place for himself when the world
hasn’t made room for him to start with? Honest, heartbreaking, and
ultimately uplifting, Calling for a Blanket Dance is the story of how
Ever Geimausaddle finds his way home.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">About the author:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><b>Oscar Hokeah</b>
is a citizen of Cherokee Nation and the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma from
his mother's side and has Mexican heritage through his father. He holds
an MA in English
with a concentration in Native American Literature from the University
of Oklahoma, as well as a BFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of
American Indian Arts (IAIA), with a minor in Indigenous Liberal Studies.
He is a recipient of the Truman Capote Scholarship
Award through IAIA and is also a winner of the Native Writer Award
through the Taos Summer Writers Conference. His short stories have been
published in South Dakota Review, American Short Fiction, Yellow
Medicine Review, Surreal South, and Red Ink Magazine.
He works with Indian Child Welfare in Tahlequah.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">In case of any questions, please contact me at:
<a href="mailto:rene.dietrich@ku.de" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">rene.dietrich@ku.de</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">"[A] captivating debut . . . with striking insight into human nature and beautiful prose, this heralds an exciting new voice." <br /> --<b><i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review</b> </p><p></p>
"What is wonderful about Hokeah's debut is that each character gets to
tell their own story, while also covering Ever's life, who they each
feel responsible for as part of their family and community. ... What we
have with this book is a complete picture of one person as seen by
others, and an entire community made up of Kiowa, Cherokee, and Mexican
Americans, each with their own language, speech rhythms, and ways of
seeing the world." <br /> --<b><i>Literary Hub</i></b> <p></p> "Hokeah's
debut will feel familiar to fans of Louise Erdrich and Tommy Orange . . .
A novel that builds in richness and intricacy . . . Another noteworthy
debut in what feels like an ongoing renaissance of Indigenous peoples'
literature, both reflecting this lineage and introducing an exciting,
fresh new voice to the choir." <br /> --<i><b>Library Journal</b></i><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> </span></p>
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I heard an elder speak of the importance of our languages and our
culture. He said, “Our words are powerful; our stories are elastic; our
languages are music: they dance, they move and they are medicine for our
people. He said they are a spirit within themselves and we are only the
channel that brings them to life.” I write because I know what he said
is true.
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<span style="font-size: large;">Q&A with founder Trace L Hentz</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">also known as Trace DeMeyer and Laramie Harlow</span></h1>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Tell us about Blue Hand Books:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I
started Blue Hand Books as a collective of Native American authors in
2011 to help my Narragansett friend John Christian Hopkins. He and I
worked together at the <i>Pequot Times</i> in the early 2000s. John
had tried publishing himself, and it worked fine but he needed more
readers (and book sales). My husband and I were having brunch with John
and his wife Sararesa in Connecticut that summer (2011) and out of
nowhere—BOOM—I offered to help him publish his book <i>Twilight of the Gods</i>.
He electronically sent me his files and somehow I formatted it and we
published it! So the collective as a company officially kicked off on
11-11-11 when his book was published. It was more work than I imagined
to layout a book but I've improved because of <a href="https://pressbooks.com/" target="_blank">Pressbooks</a> formatting software. (2023 - Pressbooks is no longer what we use.) As time went on, I needed to learn
how to create e-books and tons of other stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>How did you come up with that name:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Blue
Hand Books was a vision. I'd looked at Mayan prophecy since it
was 2011—the end of their calendar was December 21 and found out that
the Blue Hand is a Mayan symbol for the time we are now in. </span><span style="font-size: large;">In 2019, I reopened as BLUE INDIANS COLLECTIVE and Blue Hand Books. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnzlyy-5P1DUEo1442tQ6vKAGXdo5mTeot0C4zaFGdcjlMbkwz7WpsEVxlUBAGUq5PyYjag0XBMmLXwjX0whwN4PsdXC8I3bvAVb0WoaoanjudxMxdloZ8RRsj6xuOpBVaONFFCQJvuQ6pofhGr3F6lrbk9ArLjFzS0AGhuzi2Ll2yh1vX8k557PxHM40/s415/Bluehandbooksphoto.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="415" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnzlyy-5P1DUEo1442tQ6vKAGXdo5mTeot0C4zaFGdcjlMbkwz7WpsEVxlUBAGUq5PyYjag0XBMmLXwjX0whwN4PsdXC8I3bvAVb0WoaoanjudxMxdloZ8RRsj6xuOpBVaONFFCQJvuQ6pofhGr3F6lrbk9ArLjFzS0AGhuzi2Ll2yh1vX8k557PxHM40/s320/Bluehandbooksphoto.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />What is the mission:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Our
motto "Where Native Authors Find New Readers" is our mission.
"Decolonizing publishing" is our goal. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">With the Blue Indians Collective name, we
remember and honor Santee poet and activist John Trudell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>How many books have you published as a collective:</b></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">28 so far (2023). Once we had John's <i>Twilight of the Gods</i> book done, I published the second edition of my memoir <i>One Small Sacrifice</i>
in 2012. (The first edition in 2009 I'd used Lulu and hated the interior
design—it looked awful to me. The Lulu people were not at all what I'd expected.)
We used Pressbooks software for layout of both the e-book and
paperback and it's fantastic and much easier on me. (I still do the layout and uploads of photos and write book info.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Back in 2009,
self-publishing was not looked upon as "professional" so I knew John and
I needed to have a publishing house and BE the publisher. We're both
journalists and former editors. I decided to use Create Space/KDP/Amazon
after I did some research. (I have looked into other book publishers/printers as well, like Ingram.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Right after that I worked with a new writer Jim Chavers, who is
Bois Forte Ojibwe, and at that time he was in prison in Minnesota. We
worked over the phone for months. I did his book <i>Ojibwe Hunter</i> (his true hunting stories) and published it on Create Space in 2012.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">OH! I want to add that our mutual friend <b>Barb Burke</b>
was our go-to-gal for graphic design. She designed the book covers and
bookmarks. We could not have done it without her help and generosity.
(She is a very talented writer herself! And now a busy mom to Sam.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since then, WE (the collective Blue Hand Books) have
published my first poetry chapbook SLEEPS WITH KNIVES, an anthology TWO
WORLDS: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects (Busbee
and I are co-editors and adoptees), John's first poetry book RHYME OR
REASON, Patricia Busbee's hybrid fiction REMEDIES (she has changed her name again), and John's 2nd
edition of CARLOMAGNO: Adventures of the Pirate Prince of the
Wampanoags. That's not the exact order of books but close.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let
me define "collective": When we started, John and I helped each other
out by co-writing press releases, arranging to do radio/ print
interviews/find book reviewers, locate book stores, and advise/help with
marketing. Each of our authors is supposed to help out. Not all did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">John's also remastered <i>Twilight of the Gods</i> as the new book <i>LOKI: God of Mischief, </i>with a brand new book cover so that was done and published. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">John re-published his book Carlomango with BHB and we added a subtitle: Adventures of the Pirate Prince of the Wampanoags</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In early 2014, I finished the interior of Dana Lone Hill's<i> POINTING WITH LIPS</i>.
It was a fantastic debut fiction—<span style="background-color: #fcff01;">her very first book</span>... This Lakota writer had a huge gift and a huge following...
We asked graphic designer Kim Pittman to do the cover and it's
wonderful. (I realized my WORD program sucked at book interiors,
especially doing Dana's book, so we use Pressbooks software (which is a lot like using wordpress). It cost money
but it was worth it. Now Pressbooks changed in 2023 and it's not going to work.)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">out of print</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In June 2014, Busbee and I finished and published <i>CALLED HOME (Book 2) Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects</i>,
a Native adoptee narrative anthology. It took forever since
we had 50 writers, which includes me and Patricia, but it's a
masterpiece and an important chapter of American Indian history. (See below about the second edition)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then I worked with a Wampanoag writer Deborah Spears-Moorehead on her own story and tribal history. <i>Finding Balance</i> was actually our 15th book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My chapbook <b><i>BECOMING</i></b> was our 12th title... I was excited to get my second prose/short
story collection out there, using a pen-name Laramie Harlow. (This book was retired in 2018.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">John's western <b><i>TWO GUNS</i></b> is lucky number 13 - <b>WRITER ON THE STORM</b>, John's humor writing, was 14th. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We
re-published "Called Home: The RoadMap" in 2016 with a new cover and
more content. (Our 16th title)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With second generations of Native people affected by the Adoption Projects, I published a new anthology "Stolen Generations:
Survivors of the Indian Adoption Projects and 60s Scoop" in 2016, part
of the Lost Children Book Series. (our 15th title)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We published two titles by Barbara
Robidoux (#16 and #17) Legacy of Lucy Little Bear and Sweetgrass Burning are on Amazon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Charles Grolla has published his first
book "Ojibwe Mocassin Game" (see his author page at BHB) (This is our 18th title)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also in 2017, we
published Busbee's poetry anthology "In The Veins." (Book 4 of the Lost Children Book Series) (#19)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In
2017, we republished Two Worlds: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption
Projects, Vol. 1 - I edited it with a new cover. (#20)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Buffalo Dreams</i>
was published in 2019. (#21) Sadly, Jagade died on October 2, 2019,
just days after her book came out. She had self-published earlier books
and lived in Stone Lane, Wisconsin. Buffalo Dreams is part-memoir,
part-instruction on how to interpret dreams.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2019: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We've
published and republished 25 remarkable very very good book titles. NICE!</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As of 2018, we are <b>not </b>on Facebook. We closed the BHB twitter account. Trace got offer X/Twitter in 2023.<br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y1-FcAzGlOQ/YLEvnJUiT4I/AAAAAAAAbKc/JzGsP4EjgPYrUqkc1AwP_XLaGNx_IXdhQCLcBGAsYHQ/s714/bhb.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="714" height="396" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y1-FcAzGlOQ/YLEvnJUiT4I/AAAAAAAAbKc/JzGsP4EjgPYrUqkc1AwP_XLaGNx_IXdhQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h396/bhb.png" width="640" /></a></div></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Does BLUE HAND BOOKS have a blog or website?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Both. It's <a href="http://www.bluehandbooks.org/">www.bluehandbooks.org</a> and we have <a href="http://www.bluehandcollective.com/">www.bluehandcollective.com</a>. 2019: <a href="http://blueindiansbooks.com./">blueindiansbooks.com.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since my cancer surgery in May 2018, I blog about books by Native authors, not just the ones we publish. BTW... I'm fine now.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">WHY BLOG?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This is a story in itself. I had
no idea how to create a website but I tried. First I used Webs to create
bluehandbooks.com as a storefront but it was expensive and no
sales at all! So back to the drawing board I went and decided to buy
the name Blue Hand Books with the .org and use wordpress as our landing
page and website. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Like I said, it's all been a learning curve for me to
be a book publisher! Domain names, blogs, websites, book trailers, book
tours, social media, all of this was new to me in 2009 when my memoir
came out. I'd never guessed this was the direction my life would
take—but I am sure glad it did!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I switched this website to Blogger in 2016. (But it has glitches - like the pages not working)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In
2017, I decided to take a new direction. Blue Hand
Books Collective was a website to find our
book titles on Amazon or IndieBound. I retired in 2015 and Steve
Dragswolf was manager for one year, but that didn't work out.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">I un-retired...😂 </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Revisioned: </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">By late 2018, I did my first creative non-fiction. This book was created over 5 years! It wasn't my last. Keep reading!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Also in 2019:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sleeps with Knives (2nd edition) came out. The book cover is simply white feathers....</span></span><br />
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Amazon is where we print paperbacks (KDP on amazon.com) but we HOPE and
PRAY you will use BOOKSHOP to buy books. Most of our book titles are
listed on BOOKSHOP and on this website. Not all but most.]<br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>2021</b>: OMG! <i>It's A Miracle We've Survived This Far</i> is a book series. "I can't stop. WHAT JUST HAPPENED? It's a brand new book," Trace yells! (Our 26th book)<br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>2022:</b> For the first time, Trace published a new book FINDING THE INVISIBLES (#27) on its own website:</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.findingtheinvisibles.com/" target="_blank">https://www.findingtheinvisibles.com/</a>-
but there were (GOOGLE BLOGGER) glitches when photos disappeared -
FORMATTING issues were fixed in 2023. BUT the entire book (with photos)
can be read as an ebook here <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">FREE</span>: <a href="https://pressbooks.pub/cosmicglue/front-matter/introduction/">https://pressbooks.pub/cosmicglue/front-matter/introduction/<br /></a></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chapter One :MIND CONTROL: <a href="https://pressbooks.pub/cosmicglue/chapter/chapter-1/">https://pressbooks.pub/cosmicglue/chapter/chapter-1/<br /></a></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chapter Two: DANGER: <a href="https://pressbooks.pub/cosmicglue/chapter/chapter-3/">https://pressbooks.pub/cosmicglue/chapter/chapter-3/</a></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chapter Three: THE WAY (<span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Trace's favorite</span>) : <a href="https://pressbooks.pub/cosmicglue/chapter/chapter-2/">https://pressbooks.pub/cosmicglue/chapter/chapter-2/ <br /></a></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>2023:</b> <i>The Last Heir of Merlin</i> by John C. Hopkins. (Our 28th book) Trace is writing <i>8 Billion Elephants</i>.<br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">And Trace is (<span style="background-color: red;">SLOWLY</span>) updating her memoir One Small Sacrifice (A Grief Memoir) with a chapter on Disappeared Children.</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">MORE BOOKS ARE COMING! </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F38.media.tumblr.com%2F297947c71204948483def02f60a9b366%2Ftumblr_mlh0ipVnQq1rdnvweo1_500.gif&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=9696354ffeb87d1cd7bde2251a7cc3d4218d438f554f8011fb7172f6d1a68bf7&ipo=images" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="500" height="474" src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F38.media.tumblr.com%2F297947c71204948483def02f60a9b366%2Ftumblr_mlh0ipVnQq1rdnvweo1_500.gif&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=9696354ffeb87d1cd7bde2251a7cc3d4218d438f554f8011fb7172f6d1a68bf7&ipo=images" width="500" /></a></div><br />MEGWETCH and Thank you for reading this update and telling your friends about us. Word of Mouth is the best way to help us... sending up Smoke Signals... </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">xox Trace<br /></span></div>
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<span class="node__pubdate" style="font-family: Merriweather;">October 26th, 2023</span><a aria-controls="colorbox" aria-label="{"alt":"At right a smiling man in a blue jacket stands on a shoreline strewn with rocks and water-soaked logs. At left is a an arm outstretched with its hand up in a stop action, fingers splayed. The partial face of a man can be seen wearing feathered hat regalia."}" class="colorbox cboxElement" data-cbox-img-attrs="{"alt":"At right a smiling man in a blue jacket stands on a shoreline strewn with rocks and water-soaked logs. At left is a an arm outstretched with its hand up in a stop action, fingers splayed. The partial face of a man can be seen wearing feathered hat regalia."}" data-colorbox-gallery="Embed Gallery-K4iV52M-NsU" href="https://windspeaker.com/sites/default/files/news/image/2023-10/It%20Stops.jpg" role="button" style="font-family: Merriweather;" title="Rueben George with the cover of his new book &quot;It Stops Here&quot;."><img alt="At right a smiling man in a blue jacket stands on a shoreline strewn with rocks and water-soaked logs. At left is a an arm outstretched with its hand up in a stop action, fingers splayed. The partial face of a man can be seen wearing feathered hat regalia." height="415" src="https://windspeaker.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_node/public/news/image/2023-10/It%20Stops.jpg?itok=6XYjW307" width="640">
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<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><em>It Stops Here: Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People</em>
is a powerful work by Rueben George that chronicles his journey in
leading Tsleil-Waututh Nation’s fight against the Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion in British Columbia.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">And while the expansion is set to start operating in the first
quarter of 2024, boosting the pipeline’s capacity to 890,000 barrels per
day from 300,000 and carrying oil from Alberta to Burnaby, BC, George
still believes the fight has been a victory.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“We said ‘No.’ We said, ‘No’ like our ancestors have. We were
stewards of our lands and our waters till the bitter end. And that in
itself is something. We didn't settle. We didn't negotiate, and that's
something. We said ‘No’ like our ancestors did,” said George.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">To understand fully the victory is to understand the concept of
naut'sa mawt, which George defines in his book as “everything is
interconnected and related.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">As he writes, “This fight against the pipeline is also a much bigger
story about who we are and why we fight to protect what we have. The
story that I want to tell is the story of our people and our reciprocal
relationship with our lands and waters dating back to our First Mother.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt;">CHAPTERS</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Love’s
Labours Tossed</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">The
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Birth
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">The
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">“The
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Have and Have Naught</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Gone
With the Whim</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Beast
of Eden</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">The
Seven Year Witch</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">A
Hard, Dazed Knight</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">The
May Tricks</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Sects
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Cranky
Poodle Dandy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Charge
of the Flight Brigade</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">A
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">The
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">The
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Treasure
of Sara Madge Rey</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Red
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Hello,
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Old
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">All
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Spotty
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Swallow
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">The
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">EPILOGUE</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">ABOUT
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Dark clouds were starting to roll in and
Elvin felt the change in the air foretelling of rain. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Putting the book away he started down the
trail again. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If he was lucky he’d find a
farmhouse or something close by; though he was willing to settle for a dry
cave.</span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">He started to walk by it before he realized he
had found a cave. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trees almost
blocked the entrance from sight and he had seen it only from the corner of his
eye. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first, big raindrops began to
plop on the ground around him. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elvin
peered into the cavernous mouth of the gaping hole but could make out very
little. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As he entered the cave his ring
grew brighter, seeming to act as a torch!</span><p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">FREE REVIEW COPIES AVAILABLE: (pdf)<br /></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">email: bluehandcollective@outlook.com <br /></span></b></span></p> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="BookDescription__description__fEDur"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="BookDescription__description__fEDur"><span> <br /></span></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Use the contact form on this blog! Get in touch! Megwetch!</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447055005417419055.post-66895058845935635932023-10-09T00:00:00.006-04:002023-10-09T00:00:00.152-04:00Becoming Kin | Empty Spaces<h2 class="deck" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" lang="en"><span class="text-node" style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY TODAY</span></span></h2><h2 class="deck" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" lang="en"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">"Unforgetting is the excavating of that truth and bringing it to the surface."</span></h2><h2 class="deck" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" lang="en"><time class="timeStamp" data-pf_style_display="inline-block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" datetime="2023-09-28T16:34:12.600Z" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span class="text-node"></span></time></h2><div class="pf-candidate" data-cy="storyWrapper" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><figure class="imageMedia leadmedia-story full pf-caption flex-width blockImage pf-size-full" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" style="width: 780px;"><div class="placeholder" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><img alt="The left half of the image shows the book jacket for Becoming Kin where colourful embroidered flowers are overlaid on a black background. The right half of the image shows a woman with long grey hair and glasses smiling at the camera. " class="pf-large-image caption-img flex-width blockImage" data-pf_rect_height="405" data-pf_rect_width="720" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" height="360" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.6647498.1695918717!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/author-patty-krawec.jpg" style="width: 720px;" width="640" /></span></div><figcaption class="image-caption" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">Author Patty Krawec and her latest book Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future. </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> <span class="text-node">(Broadleaf Books, Haley Bateman)</span></span></figcaption></figure></div><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><em data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span class="text-node">CBC BOOKS: Originally published on November 10, 2022. </span></em></p><p class="pf-br-replacement"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">When
faced with painful stories from the past, it can be easier and more
convenient to turn away than to turn toward the whole truth.</span></p> <span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">
But author Patty Krawec says in order to heal and move forward, we'll
first need to revisit and acknowledge what came before. Krawec's book, </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><em data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node">Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future, </span></em><span class="text-node">pulls on threads from the past and the present to stitch together a way forward. </span></span><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">"We tend to think of now as this isolated time," Krawec, an Anishinaabe and Ukrainian writer from Lac Seul First Nation, told </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><em data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node">Tapestry</span></em><span class="text-node">.</span></span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">"Following
those threads back to 'how are all of these things connected?' But also
the strength and resilience, and the truths of our stories that we can
pull forward and help us to live now."</span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">Here is part of that conversation with </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><em data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node">Tapestry</span></em><span class="text-node"> host Mary Hynes.</span></span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><strong data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span class="text-node">You've
studied creation stories from a lot of different cultures, how do those
stories shape the way a society evolves? Why do they matter so much?</span></strong></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">Creation
stories tell us how we understand our existence in the world and our
relationship to the world, the world that we find ourselves in. How do
we relate with each other? How do we relate with creation itself? How do
we relate with the intangible, with the idea that there are things that
we just don't know? And all of those things are contained within our
creation stories.</span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><strong data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span class="text-node">There's
a notice stapled to a hydro pole in a downtown Toronto neighborhood,
and it says, 'I lost my land and all I got was this lousy land
acknowledgement.' When you're at an event, and you hear someone begin to
recite that land acknowledgement, where does your mind go?</span></strong></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">They're
supposed to be a beginning, right? They're supposed to be an
acknowledgement of relationship and presence. I heard one recently that
talked about how all the wealth of our community is from the friendship
of the Indigenous peoples and I listened to that, and thought, 'No it's
not. That wasn't friendship, that was theft.' </span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">So
often they come down to: 'We stole your TV, and thanks. But if you
want, you can come over and watch Netflix.' When really, they should be
the beginning of thinking it through, what does it mean to be a
business, to be a school, to be journalists, to be a church, to be any
of these things on stolen land? What does that mean? How does that shape
my relationship with the people who are displaced so that I could be
here, so that I could do these things? </span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">I
helped a theater, a production company, at the Fringe Festival in
Ottawa one year. And they wanted some help with a land acknowledgement.
And so I asked them about their relationship with Indigenous community
in Ottawa. And she said, 'I don't have one.' And so I told her, 'Well,
let that be your acknowledgement then. That you have no relationship.
That you understand who the people are. And then what you are going to
do to rectify that.' And so that's what she did. </span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">Rather
than these rote things businesses and schools come up with, a kind of
official land acknowledgement, it's far more powerful to hear somebody
say, 'I know that we exist on this place, and that these are the
treaties. But I don't have a relationship. And this is what I'm going to
do about it.' I think it has potential and possibility. But too often,
it's the end of the story. And then we just turn on to the other things
that we're going to do as if Indigenous people didn't matter.</span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node">There's such an intriguing idea at the heart of your book,</span></strong><em data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><strong data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node">Becoming</span></strong></em><em data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"></em><em data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><strong data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node">Kin</span></strong></em><strong data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node">, that we find our way forward by going back. Tell me what you mean. What do we find, when we go back?</span></strong></span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">We
find the way things are connected. We tend to think of whatever is
happening right now, as happening right now. And we don't see how it is
connected to things that happened in the 50s, to things that happened in
the 19th century, to things that happen further back. And we don't see
the trauma, but we also don't see the strength. </span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">We
tend to think of now as this isolated time. And so we look back, not
only to the harms — which admittedly dominates the first part of the
book. Following those threads back to 'How are all of these things
connected?' but also the strength and resilience, and the truths of our
stories that we can pull forward and help us to live now. But in a way
that's connected to these other things, and doesn't see the residential
schools as an isolated thing. No, they're connected to child welfare.
And together, those things are connected to other removals. These things
are all connected. </span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><strong data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span class="text-node">I
think a lot of people right now have a real aversion to going back or
even looking back. It just seems that so much of the human attention
span seems fixated on the future. How do you sell people on the idea
that looking back is absolutely necessary?</span></strong></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">I
think people don't want to look back because they don't want to feel
bad. They don't want to feel bad about those things that happened. They
don't want to feel bad about what their family might be connected to,
the relationships that they might have inherited — as settlers, as
newcomers. They don't want to think about that. For Black and Indigenous
people, maybe we don't want to think about it because it evokes all
kinds of trauma for us. So there's all kinds of reasons for forgetting.
That's part of the title of the book is the importance of unforgetting,
because if we don't unforget, we're not uncovering the truth. The truth
of ourselves for good and bad. And the bad can be transformed. </span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">I
tell a story at the beginning of the book from Aurora Levins Morales,
where she's talking about her ancestors who had been slave owners. And
she said, 'You can't say that they were good slave owners, there's no
such thing. But if the descendant of slave owners can become an
abolitionist, can become an advocate for social justice, how hopeful and
transformative is that?' </span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">I
carry two threads — my maternal family were refugees from Germany and
the Ukraine, and my paternal family is Ojibwe, Anishinaabe from
Northwestern Ontario. In these relationships that we have inherited, how
do we transform the things that are hurtful, that were painful, so that
we can do better? So that we can repair these relationships? And a big
part of the problem is if we don't acknowledge these things, for those
of us who have experienced trauma, how do we grieve? How do we grieve
these losses that nobody is willing to remember or acknowledge? And so
then we carry this unresolved grief because if we talk about it, we get
told that it wasn't that bad or it didn't really happen. </span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><strong data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span class="text-node">I'm
interested in how careful you are with the language here because you
don't frame this as remembering, you're suggesting a kind of
unforgetting and I'm curious about the difference. What makes
unforgetting something distinct from remembering?</span></strong></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">Remembering is fun and builds community. Unforgetting suggests a process of deliberate forgetting, of burying. </span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">There's
a deliberateness in the way that stories are hidden or told in a
certain way. Unforgetting is the excavating of that truth and bringing
it to the surface. Because there's also a lot of good things in that
history as well that also get forgotten in this flattening into this
national narrative that we have.</span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node">I
want to ask you about a time when you thought back, looked back, when
you physically went back. I'm thinking of your return to Sioux Lookout,
Ontario. Would you do a reading for us from </span></strong><em data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><strong data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node">Becoming Kin</span></strong></em><strong data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node">?</span></strong></span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">So this passage is about the first time I went home to Sioux Lookout with my father.</span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><em data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span class="text-node">"I
reconnected with my father when I was in my late twenties, and shortly
after that, he took me home to Sioux Lookout. It was the first time I
had been home since leaving as a toddler, and I did not know what to
expect.</span></em></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><em data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span class="text-node">"There
were people who remembered me, people who remembered stories about me,
and in the intervening years, they had periodically wondered what had
happened to me. This was not a surprise. I had also leafed through the
photo album and wondered what had happened to them. But what was a
surprise was the undeniable sensation that the land and water remembered
me too." </span></em></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><strong data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span class="text-node">Tell me about that moment, that powerful sensation that you were being greeted and remembered by the land and the water.</span></strong></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">I
spent a lot of time going down to the water and looking across and it
felt familiar probably because as a toddler things imprint on you. And I
remember still kind of leaning down and putting my hands in the water
and it was like a physical reaction that I hadn't anticipated. And I
don't know, a psychologist could probably give you all kinds of other
reasons for that. But for me, I felt remembered, like I wasn't the only
one who was remembering. And I felt profoundly connected to that place
in a way that I had not felt connected to anyplace else. </span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">And
I think about that a lot, because I think about the way the waters from
Sioux Lookout go down to Lake Superior, and then through the Great
Lakes and pass by where I am now. And then the water cycles back in the
form of rain. And it makes me think of this great conversation that's
going on between the land and the water about us. And these beings, this
whole unseen world that we don't understand. And if I can remember, and
if it can remember me, then acting as if it's not a being in its own
right, that's got consequences.</span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node" style="font-family: Merriweather;">—-------- </span><em data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span class="text-node">Q&A
edited for length and clarity. Interview produced by Mary Hynes and
McKenna Hadley-Burke. Written by McKenna Hadley-Burke. </span></em></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><em data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span class="text-node"><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/tapestry/when-remembering-isn-t-enough-this-indigenous-author-calls-on-us-to-unforget-1.6647458?cmp=newsletter_CBC%20Books_10004_1271554" target="_blank">LISTEN </a></span></em></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><em data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span class="text-node"></span></em></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><em data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span class="text-node">MORE: </span></em><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/books/new-collaboration-to-publish-picture-books-from-emerging-indigenous-artists-and-writers-1.6978776?cmp=newsletter_CBC%20Books_10004_1271554" target="_blank">New collaboration to publish picture books from emerging Indigenous artists and writers</a></span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> </span></p><h2><a href="http://cbc.ca/1.6946446" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong><em>Empty Spaces </em>by Jordan Abel</strong></a></h2><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><figure class="imageMedia image full"><div class="placeholder"><img alt="Empty Spaces by Jordan Abel. A black book cover with a circle of colours in the centre. A portrait of an Indigenous man standing on a path in the forest." height="360" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.6903250.1692896719!/fileImage/httpImage/image.png_gen/derivatives/original_780/empty-spaces-by-jordan-abel.png" style="aspect-ratio: 1.7765 / 1;" width="640" /></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Empty Spaces is a novel by Jordan Abel. (Sweetmoon Photography, McClelland & Stewart)</figcaption></figure></span></div><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="http://cbc.ca/1.6946446"><em>Empty Spaces</em></a> is a reimagining of James Fenimore Cooper's 19th-century text <em>The Last of the Mohicans</em>
from a modern urban perspective. Jordan Abel explores what it means to
be Indigenous without access to familial territory and complicates
popular understandings about Indigenous storytelling.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>When you can read it:</strong> Aug. 29, 2023 </span></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-thursday-edition-1.6034362/jordan-abel-s-book-about-intergenerational-trauma-will-be-there-when-you-need-it-1.6034363" style="font-family: Merriweather;">Jordan Abel's book about intergenerational trauma will be there when you need it</a></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Abel is a Nisga'a writer from British Columbia. He is also the author of the poetry collections <em><a href="http://cbc.ca/1.4013221">The Place of Scraps</a></em>, <em><a href="http://cbc.ca/1.4013631">Un/inhabited</a></em> and <em><a href="http://cbc.ca/1.4077459">Injun</a></em>. In 2017, he <a href="http://cbc.ca/1.4156645">won the Griffin Poetry Prize</a> for <em><a href="http://cbc.ca/1.4077459">Injun</a></em>.</span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: large;"> EVEN MORE</span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">:</span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/books/74-works-of-canadian-fiction-to-read-in-fall-2023-1.6902055" style="font-family: Merriweather;">https://www.cbc.ca/books/74-works-of-canadian-fiction-to-read-in-fall-2023-1.6902055</a><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></p><p class="added-to-list1" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><em data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span class="text-node"> </span></em></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Use the contact form on this blog! Get in touch! Megwetch!</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447055005417419055.post-10094131041106923242023-09-19T14:23:00.000-04:002023-09-19T14:23:06.766-04:00Native American Literature: Tribes and Tribulations<p></p><div><div>
<span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span itemprop="articleBody"><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-us.bookshop.org/ingram/9781662510472.jpg?height=500&v=v2-e7f0cf3da1bff62b284600440bc81c76" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="323" height="500" src="https://images-us.bookshop.org/ingram/9781662510472.jpg?height=500&v=v2-e7f0cf3da1bff62b284600440bc81c76" width="323" /></a></div><br />For <b><i>Redemption</i></b>,
the first book of my new Native American suspense thriller series, I
feature the Taos Pueblo Reservation, located in northern New Mexico—a
Native tribe that relies on the verbal art of storytelling to keep their
culture alive. As a part Eastern Band Cherokee writer, it can be a
tightrope dance deciding what to present to the outside world.
Traditions and cultures established hundreds upon hundreds of years ago
are to be protected, and yet if we do not share, no one knows what could
be lost.<p></p>
<p>The books below are written by Natives, about their land and what it
means to be a member of a tribe, which illustrates whether Native or
not, we all have a story that unites us—either by blood, or
circumstances.</p>
<p>Each of these books ease back the curtain so we can glimpse an
existence readers are not usually privy to. The regions are varied, each
character unique, and yet each of these writers open their arms and
invite you in. If not for understanding, at least for a seat at the
literary table their talents so rightly deserve.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-129503" height="300" src="https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/05/Shutter-199x300.jpeg" width="199" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/shutter-ramona-emerson/18705264?ean=9781641294812" target="_blank"><i>Shutter</i> by Ramona Emerson</a></b></p>
<p>Longlisted for the National Book Award, Ramona Emerson’s striking
debut novel features crime scene photographer Rita Todacheene, haunted
by slayed Natives who insist she help solve their murders. This tale of a
Navajo girl, who grew up on the Navajo reservation, learning life
lessons from her grandmother, melds the art of photography, the world of
crime, and the agony of lost souls seeking retribution. Unique and
intriguing, this quite brilliant mystery set in New Mexico is a visual
feast as we follow our heroine who risks her life to do right by those
who haunt her.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-122170" height="300" src="https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/07/Winter-Counts-199x300.jpeg" width="199" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Winter Counts</i> by David Heska Wanbli Weiden</b></p>
<p>Another highly acclaimed debut by a master of words. Stradling the
line of the traditions of his Lakota people on the Rosebud Reservation
and mixed-race he also shares, Virgil Wounded Horse is tasked off the
reservation to find the fellow tribesman responsible for the heroin
influx on their land. We learn much about Virgil and find ourselves
cheering him on as he seeks and then dispenses uncompromising justice
for the victims who suffer ruinous effects of the drugs that hold them
prisoner.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-110848" height="300" src="https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/05/the-only-good-indians-196x300.jpg" width="196" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The Only Good Indians</i> by Stephen Graham Jones</b></p>
<p>Although this <i>USA Today </i>bestseller is presented as a
supernatural horror thriller, the novel follows the traditional mystery
journey of a first-rate thriller. A realistic and cautionary tale, rife
with implications of do right no matter the cost, or face the
consequences. An unauthorized hunt goes all wrong . . . and then the
haunting begins. Nature and revered creatures get their vengeance when
four Native men neglect who claimed the land first.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-106497" height="296" src="https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/11/Murder-on-the-Red-River.jpg" width="200" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Murder on the Red River</i> by Marcie R. Rendon</b></p>
<p>Book one of this mystery series introduces Cash Blackbear, an Ojibwe
woman, known to be tough and sometimes belligerent. She makes a living
capably in a man’s world, and possesses skills few young women of the
region have—including visions of those who have passed before they are
actually killed. The unlikely team of Cash and the local sheriff pair up
to solve a murder, following clues due to her special ability.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-139667" height="300" src="https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/09/There-There-199x300.jpeg" width="199" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>There There</i> by Tommy Orange</b></p>
<p>Pulitzer Prize Finalist and another debut novel, this often amusing,
always fascinating tale follows a cast of characters surviving urban
life off the reservation, living parallel yet separate Native
experiences. Visceral and raw, <i>There There</i> is the realistic study of those struggling to find who and what they are, to themselves and how others see them.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-139668" height="300" src="https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/09/Perma-Red-194x300.jpeg" width="194" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Perma Red</i> by Debra Magpie Earling</b></p>
<p>Set in 1940s Montana, and yet timeless and relevant to this day, the
location featured is the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana,
where members of the tribe keep to themselves, yet all know the allure
of Louise White Elk. Owning and loving becomes a battle between two
Native men who want her, and a prosperous white man captivated by her.
All will do anything to quench their desire to lay claim to the elusive
woman who’s spirit will not be broken, no matter the cost to her soul.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-94630" height="300" src="https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/09/The-Round-House-199x300.jpg" width="199" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The Round House</i> by Louise Erdrich</b></p>
<p>This worthy National Book Award Winner is the coming-of-age tale of
an Ojibwe boy and his parents living on the North Dakota reservation
dealing with heartbreak as they seek a spark of light through the
darkness. The power of the family unit is strong, and the need to be as
one immense, as we learn the true cost of life and the dangers and
accomplishments Native women face on and off the reservation. Certainly
the most recognizable contemporary Native American novelist, Ms.
Erdrich, as always, captures hearts with this moving and authentic
journey of survival and regaining the power of redemption.</p>
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American Eva “Lightning Dance” Duran Series, and the Smoky Mountain
Inquest Series. <i>Redemption</i>, published by Thomas & Mercer,
was released September 1, 2023. Part Eastern Band Cherokee, she is an
Agatha Award winner, The Hillerman Sky Award Finalist, and two-time
Anthony Award Finalist for Best Audiobooks <i>Crescendo</i> and <i>Causing Chaos</i>. Deborah lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her husband and an awesome Ausky. <a href="DeborahJLedford.com " target="_blank">DeborahJLedford.com </a>
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Indigenous Alaskan author is hoping to breakthrough into popular
fiction. Matt Gilbert already has a pair of significant nonfiction books
under his belt, but he wouldn’t mind crossing over into film work or
novels set in a galaxy far, far away – in a genre that might be known
one day as Gwich’in Sci-Fi.</span></p><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls="" src="https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/02GILBERT.mp3"></audio></figure><p><em style="font-family: Merriweather;">Note: Matt Gilbert’s science fiction is available under his pen name “Wolf Golan” online at <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/chandera-the-dream-of-chandera-wolf-golan/1143300168?ean=9798389795600" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Barnes & Noble</a> and<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chandera-Book-1-Wolf-Golan/dp/B0C12JW9SL/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Wolf+Golan&qid=1683248361&sr=8-1" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"> Amazon.</a> His nonfiction books can be obtained both online and from bookstores everywhere.</em></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="https://mattgilbertak.wixsite.com/matt-gilbert" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Matt Gilbert has written the serious stuff.</a> The 2005 graduate of the University of Alaska in English Literature just published <em>The Gwich’in Climate Report</em>
(University of Colorado Press, 2023), a compilation of his interviews
with Athabaskan community members, hunters, and trappers on regional
adaptation to climate change. An earlier book, <em>Sitting at Their Feet,</em> a memoir of his coming-of-age during a time of cultural transition, was published in 2021 by the Epicenter Press.</span></p><p><em style="font-family: Merriweather;">Gilbert was featured in <a href="https://www.npr.org/2008/04/19/89755688/young-alaskan-sees-changing-way-of-life" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">this 2008 report on Arctic climate change</a> from National Public Radio.</em></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Listening
to elders is something we all should spend more time doing, but for
Gilbert – even growing up in Arctic Village – there was something else.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“I
was a big, big, big, huge sci-fi nerd,” said Gilbert. “Totally, a Star
Wars fan all the way, a Star Trek fan all the way. Lord of the Rings
fan, Willow fan, and as a kid, I would grow up and love these movies.
But I always wondered: What about us?”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Star Trek is still
celebrated for bringing racial and ethnic diversity to space. For
Gilbert, it wasn’t necessarily about the racial makeup of the actors,
but their worldviews. He was raised in a culture of storytelling that
just wasn’t making its way into contemporary science fiction of any
kind.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“As a kid, I was really disappointed, you know, really
disappointed,” he said. “A little kid in front of the TV and a bookworm
early on. Where’s our stories? You know, where’s the modern native
stories, with sci-fi or fantasy, or with anything? And I waited. And so
when I was 15 years old, I was in high school and still nobody – no
Native American person wrote anything like it and I got tired of
waiting. I was like, ‘Okay, if no Native writers can write the stories I
want to hear, I’ll write them, and that’s what I did.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">He did,
but not as Matthew Gilbert. You can find his first trilogy under the
name Wolf Golan. “Wolf” for his first dog, and “Golan” a tribute to his
grandmother’s family name. The series is called <em>Chandera,</em> and
Gilbert began writing it in high school. It’s set 300 years in the
future, and its protagonist is Maxwell Wilkes, a Gwich’in Athabaskan.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">For
the novels to work, Gilbert had to project not only the future of
civilization as a whole, but the future of his culture. He was pleased
to learn that many of his peers believed that people will still identify
as Gwich’in three centuries from now.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“When I was writing it, I
spoke to Native American people, even to young people like 20-year
olds,” he said. “And I asked them, “In 300 years, how do you think we’d
be? And they’d be like, ‘Oh, we’d be heavily westernized, our old
culture would be gone. Yes, we’d have probably still have a connection,
but it would be distant,’ and so I put that in there. They’re still
trying to be Gwich’in, but it’s been so long since they were connected
to the real culture 300 or 400 years ago.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Gilbert says he’s been
criticized for creating a character who tips too far into western
standards of heroism, but he argues that the differences are subtle: In
the first book of the Chandera series, for example, Max Wilkes rides
into battle quietly, in contrast to Luke Skywalker and Hans Solo and
other “Western guys… yelling stuff.” In another nod both cultural and
autobiographical, Gilbert says his hero sleeps late. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Since Gilbert first started creating the world of the <em>Chandera</em>
trilogy as a high school student, he’s pleased that Native American
science fiction is seeing a renaissance, through the works of authors
like Rebecca Roanhorse, and scholars like Grace Dillon, a professor at
Portland State University whom he considers a mentor. And there are new
characters, too, who are pushing the Native American worldview into
space. A favorite of Gilbert’s is Camina Drummer, a pivotal figure in
the huge sci-fi hit <em>The Expanse.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Gilbert self-published the <em>Chandera</em>
series, but he’s hoping a publisher might take the trilogy to the next
level, into the world of trade fiction. In the meantime to pay the
bills, he and a colleague run a management company, and he works
occasionally in construction.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">He vividly remembers finishing his
English Literature degree, and looking around the university at friends
studying to become engineers and other professionals. Eighteen years on,
he’s still content with his choice to pursue writing. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“If I
could go back and do it all over again, I don’t think I would change
anything,” Gilbert said. “I I like being a writer. I like telling
stories, you know. But I do actually want to do different things from
this time onward.”</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/12050452/matt-gilbert.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: Merriweather; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/12050452/matt-gilbert.png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br />Gilbert is hoping to expand his creative range,
and possibly move into music. Whatever is ahead, it’s unlikely to be a
“normal” job. “I tried to get a normal job and be normal,” he said, “it
(writing) just wouldn’t leave me alone.”</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">**</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>Matt Gilbert (Gwich’in) is from Arctic Village</strong> and grew up living with his grandparents.</span></p><p data-ogsc=""><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Gilbert
was always very driven, even at a younger age attending schools in the
Native Village of Fort Nelson. But one thing that really stuck with him,
and that he realized early on is that he wanted to be a writer.</span></p><p data-ogsc=""><span data-ogsc="" style="font-family: Merriweather;">“Since
I was seven years old I’ve always wanted to be a writer. I think I got
it from my great grandmother Maggie, she was the last Gwich’n story
teller</span></p><p data-ogsc=""><span data-ogsc="" style="font-family: Merriweather;">Gilbert would graduate in 2005 from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks majoring in English Literature. </span></p><p data-ogsc=""><span data-ogsc="" style="font-family: Merriweather;">It was at that time his first opportunity struck when the University of Arizona came out with an ad for Native Authors.</span></p><p data-ogsc=""><span data-ogsc="" style="font-family: Merriweather;">“I responded, and I wrote out the elder stories.”</span></p><p data-ogsc=""><span data-ogsc="" style="font-family: Merriweather;">Those stories would be testimonies from the elders in his community talking about climate change. </span></p><p data-ogsc=""><span data-ogsc="" style="font-family: Merriweather;">He named his memoir <em>The Gwich’in Climate Report</em> and says there were things he learned from his elders that he hadn’t learned in all years he attended college.</span></p><p data-ogsc=""><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“They
gave such brilliant interesting knowledge about meteorology, ecology,
all the subtle changes the climate is doing to the earth. Stuff you
don’t hear in the climate change movement.”</span></p><p data-ogsc=""><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span data-ogsc="">After he published his non-fiction book, Gilbert said it got him excited about returning back to a sci-fi trilogy <i data-ogsc="">Chandera</i> he created in high school. </span><span data-ogsc=""> </span></span></p><p data-ogsc=""><span data-ogsc="" style="font-family: Merriweather;">“It’s
basically Lord of the Rings with a brown Native man in the lead. He’s
Gwich’in. They’re coming back from a mining planet, interstellar age
where the milky age is colonized by humans and lived on. It’s like the
expanse. They get attacked and they get warped somewhere into another
galaxy.”</span></p><p data-ogsc=""><span data-ogsc="" style="font-family: Merriweather;">Gilbert is spending a majority of his time these days working on the sci-fi trilogy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> </span></p></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Use the contact form on this blog! Get in touch! 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Megwetch!</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447055005417419055.post-1385866511480653012023-05-03T16:54:00.003-04:002023-10-05T20:15:23.805-04:00AI: bad news for all humans/writers | Say No to ChatGPT <p><b style="font-family: Merriweather;"></b></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtD8j5fy5VlhkQcqlrlk5fkiD_2IW8oPJBJ9BYd2IjC1Jw9DtTqt7nw6CtkCDKbgcCKdJedmoOti1CFGlv9qJc6Bp_H94NekIT0DdylWLYCzfsOwtGLM7JnByQKWkwOJcWcFnBGi6d71r9rxMM2dBea6v_E2FE5sCK5NxDY0Q70ja0uXT6f0vzo4Rd/s300/duality.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="248" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtD8j5fy5VlhkQcqlrlk5fkiD_2IW8oPJBJ9BYd2IjC1Jw9DtTqt7nw6CtkCDKbgcCKdJedmoOti1CFGlv9qJc6Bp_H94NekIT0DdylWLYCzfsOwtGLM7JnByQKWkwOJcWcFnBGi6d71r9rxMM2dBea6v_E2FE5sCK5NxDY0Q70ja0uXT6f0vzo4Rd/w331-h400/duality.jpg" width="331" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AI destroyed both<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><b style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br />By Trace Hentz, founder of BHB</b><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">I can only speak for myself - I WILL NEVER EVER use AI to generate any writing. I never have, and never will. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">First, I would feel so duped (cheated, scammed) to find out a book was written by artificial intelligence (AI) but has some famous author's name on it. (I really don't read much fiction but this affects all types of books. Publishers out to make a quick buck could find ways to create new fake authors,too.)<br /></span></p><p><b style="font-family: Merriweather;">Secondly, AI is not human.</b><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Sad to say, I think AI has already destroyed book publishing. AI has been around awhile. We don't really know how many authors have already used it - or will even admit it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">It could be widespread already. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">When I found out google and microsoft bing, (even wordpress) are using AI, I stopped searching with them. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">DUPED? How would you feel if your favorite writer didn't write his last book but you spent good money to buy it? Wouldn't you be ANGRY?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">If a writer DOES use AI to create a book, THEY MUST disclose it. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Do you think they will?<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">ANYWAY, it's bad news.</span></p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">READ THIS👇💀 <br /></span></h1><h2><a href="https://selfpublishedauthor.com/node/694" style="font-family: Merriweather;">Is AI-Generated Content Copyrightable? </a></h2>
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<p><b style="font-family: Merriweather;">CopyrightTips <i>from experts* at <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/copyrightsnow/home">CopyrightsNow.com</a></i></b></p>
<p><b style="font-family: Merriweather;">If your book includes AI-generated images or text from Chat-GPT or other tools… can you copyright it? </b></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The topic of AI (Artificial Intelligence) is front-and-center in the
news, as Congress is considering new laws to regulate its use — and many
‘tech gurus’ like Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak have advocated a
temporary halt on artificial intelligence systems that are more powerful
than GPT-4. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Despite these concerns, AI is becoming more prevalent and available
to authors and creators… including ChatGPT plug-ins that enable writers
to <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">easily </span>generate text. But will AI-generated content be
copyrightable? </span></p>
<p><b style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Is AI-generated content copyrightable? </span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">According to the U. S. Copyright Office, works created by AI — known
as “generative AI” are technologies that generate “original” content
based on prompts from humans. USCO has received <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">many </span>“copyright
applications that name AI as the Author or Co-Author or statements in
the ‘Author Created’ or ‘Notes’ fields indicating content was produced
by or with the assistance of AI. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Other applications have not disclosed the inclusion of AI-generated
material but have mentioned the names of AI technologies in the title of
the work or the ‘acknowledgments’ section of the deposit.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"></span></p><blockquote>In response, the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) recently announced new
policy guidelines* on “Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial
Intelligence”. </blockquote><p></p>
<p><b style="font-family: Merriweather;">How does U. S. copyright law treat AI-generated content?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">USCO currently interprets <u>AI-generated text and images as not protected under copyright law</u> since they were <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">produced by a machine</span> based on prompts from humans. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">In a recent case involving a graphic novel “Zarya of the Dawn”,
featuring AI-generated images, USCO determined that ‘the text of the
graphic novel as well as the selection, coordination, and arrangement of
the Work’s written and visual elements’ <u>are protectable</u> under copyright law’… but that <u>AI-generated images were not protected</u>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">For AI-generated material, USCO will consider whether the AI
contributions are the result of “mechanical reproduction” or of an
author’s “own original mental conception, to which [the author] gave
visible form.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">If a work’s traditional elements of authorship were produced by a
machine, the work lacks human authorship and USCO will not register it. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">For example, when an AI technology receives a prompt from a human
and automatically produces complex written, visual, or musical works in
response, then “traditional elements of authorship” were produced by the
technology — not a human user — and<span style="background-color: #fcff01;"> therefore not copyrightable</span>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">When your content includes an AI technology as part of the
expressive elements, the generated material is not the product of human
authorship and therefore that material is not protected by copyright and
must be disclaimed in a copyright registration application. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">When registering your work with software like CopyrightsNow**, an
applicant should check: ‘Pre-Existing 3rd Party Material’ to limit the
copyright claim by listing AI-generated contributions that are excluded
from registration, such as:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Limitations: <br />
• AI-generated Text <br />
• AI-generated Images <br />
• AI-generated Music</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: Merriweather;"><u>Applicants have a duty to disclose inclusion of AI-generated
content in their work submitted for registration and an obligation to
specifically disclaim that AI content from the copyright registration</u>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">For example, a work that incorporates AI-generated text into a larger
textual work should only claim the portions of the text that is
human-authored. And an applicant who creatively arranges the human and
non-human content within a work should fill out the “Author Created”
contribution as: “Selection, coordination, and arrangement of [describe
human-authored content] created by the author and [describe AI content]
generated by AI.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Applicants should not list the AI technology or company that provided
it as an Author or Co-Author simply because they used it when creating
their work. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">👉Applicants who fail to disclose material generated by AI risk losing
the benefits of the registration.</span> (FUNNY!!!) If the Office becomes aware that
essential information to its evaluation of registrability “has been
omitted from the application or is questionable,” it may deny or cancel
the registration. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Separately, a court may disregard a registration in an infringement
action pursuant to section 411(b) of the Copyright Act if it concludes
that the applicant knowingly provided the Office with inaccurate
information, and the accurate information would have resulted in the
refusal of the registration. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Therefore it is essential that authors and publishers <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">fully disclose</span>
the use of AI-generated content in the original copyright application. </span></p>
<p><b style="font-family: Merriweather;">Note: Always consult with your attorney for specific legal advice based on your specific situation.</b></p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-georgia" style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: inherit;"><a href="https://hyperallergic.com/819822/striking-writers-guild-screenwriters-say-no-to-chatgpt/" target="_blank">Hollywood’s striking screenwriters have serious concerns about being replaced by AI</a>.</span><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: Merriweather;"> </span><b style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: Merriweather;"></b></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;">“The concern is not that AI will create scripts that are really good,
but that it will take away a lot of work,” said Lowell Peterson of the
Writers Guild.</h1><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Since the introduction of generative AI bots, such as ChatGPT, creatives
in every industry from advertising to journalism have voiced concerns
about potential job displacement. Now, alongside other demands, the WGA
strikers are calling for regulations on the use of this new technology
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novel Bone Black is about a woman who takes justice into her own hands
when her sister becomes one of the many Missing and Murdered Indigenous
Women.</span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> </span> </div></div> </div> </header> <section class="article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story"> <p data-async=""><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Walking her dog around Regina Beach every day, <a data-evt-typ="click" data-evt-val="{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "Carol Rose GoldenEagle", "target_url": "https://leaderpost.com/life/qc/carol-daniels-reflects-on-sixties-scoop-moves-beyond-it", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}" data-evt="click" href="https://leaderpost.com/life/qc/carol-daniels-reflects-on-sixties-scoop-moves-beyond-it">Carol Rose GoldenEagle</a> would mull over how to dispose of dead bodies.</span></p> </section> <section class="article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story"> <p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">She
thought about all the ice fishers who drive onto not-quite-frozen parts
of Last Mountain Lake and nearly lose their vehicles.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“If you
went on the lake a little earlier than probably what’s safe, the lake
would actually take care of the forensic evidence,” said GoldenEagle.
“And so I walked around thinking about ways of murdering (someone).”</span></p> </section><section class="article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story"><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">This was her process in writing her new novel, Bone Black.</span></p> <p data-async=""><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The protagonist Wren Strongeagle turns to serial killing after her twin sister Raven disappears. <a data-evt-typ="click" data-evt-val="{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "Having experienced and witnessed so much violence as an Indigenous woman,", "target_url": "https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/red-dresses-replace-campaigns-signs-at-some-regina-beach-homes", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}" data-evt="click" href="https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/red-dresses-replace-campaigns-signs-at-some-regina-beach-homes">Having experienced and witnessed so much violence as an Indigenous woman,</a>
Wren hits her breaking point: In search of justice, she begins to prey
on men who prey on Indigenous women. Wren is a deep character, and
GoldenEagle’s prose is vivid with a hint of poetry.</span></p> </section><section class="article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story"><p data-async=""><a data-evt-typ="click" data-evt-val="{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "Tina Fontaine sparked the novel\u2019s inception.", "target_url": "https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/at-regina-rally-for-tina-fontaine-protesters-promise-fight-to-the-end-against-colonial-justice", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}" data-evt="click" href="https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/at-regina-rally-for-tina-fontaine-protesters-promise-fight-to-the-end-against-colonial-justice" style="font-family: Merriweather;">Tina Fontaine sparked the novel’s inception.</a></p> <figure class="embedded-image" data-aqa="embed-image"> <picture class="embedded-image__ratio" style="font-family: Merriweather;"> <source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/leaderpost/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/carol-w.jpg?w=564&quality=90&strip=all&type=webp&sig=1OpFsDlLZsjEhdlpkUdKKQ,
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Carol Rose GoldenEagle walks her dog Saffy at Regina Beach.
GoldenEagle’s new novel Bone Black is about a woman who takes justice
into her own hands when her sister becomes one of the many Missing and
Murdered Indigenous Women.</span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> <span class="credit">Photo by TROY FLEECE</span> /<span class="distributor">Regina Leader-Post</span></span> </figcaption> </figure> <p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">GoldenEagle
(formerly Daniels and Morin) remembers hearing a radio broadcast in her
car, about a 15-year-old girl being found in a Winnipeg river in August
2014.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“It upset me so much that I actually had to stop. I had to
pull over on the highway, because I had started crying,” said
GoldenEagle.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“She was so close in age to my own daughter. (It) just broke my heart. So I think it might have started there.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The
serial killer angle came after GoldenEagle encountered a man whose
daughter was murdered. She remembers him saying, “If I was still
drinking, I know I would have gotten my shotgun and I would have hunted
this guy down, and I would have killed him myself.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Raymond Joseph Cormier had been charged with second-degree murder in Fontaine’s death, but was acquitted in February 2018.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“There
was no forensic evidence,” said GoldenEagle: Hence her search for ways
Wren could dispose of bodies without a trace of forensic evidence.</span></p> </section> <section class="article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story"> <div class="embedded-video" data-aqa="embed-video"> <div class="video-placeholder" placeholder=""> <div class="placeholder-inner"> <div class="ytp-spinner"> <div class="ytp-spinner-container"> <div class="ytp-spinner-rotator"> <div class="ytp-spinner-left"> </div> <div class="ytp-spinner-right"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> </div> <div class="youtube-iframe" data-autoplay="False" data-channel-id="" data-controls="True" data-evt-val="{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"video_autoplay": "video_autoplay", "video_location": "video_location", "video_platform": "video_platform", "video_id": "video_id"}, "extra_keys": []}}, "video_autoplay": "false", "video_location": "story paragraph", "video_platform": "YouTube", "video_id": "EA0apZWEGz8"}" data-host="leaderpost.com" data-loc="" data-loop="False" data-mute="False" data-playlist-type="" data-position="inline" data-provider="youtube" data-single-video-component="" data-version="IrYAVodh" data-video-id="EA0apZWEGz8" id="player-EA0apZWEGz8"> </div> </div> <p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Unlike Fontaine, the character Raven goes missing, and she stays missing.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“We
never know, right to the end, really, what happened to (Wren’s)
sister,” said GoldenEagle. “That’s the whole thing about the reality of
missing and murdered women. There are women who’ve been categorized as
missing for decades and the case is never solved. And so that’s the same
with her sister.”</span></p> <p data-async=""><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">The RCMP counted 1,181 missing and murdered Indigenous women between 1980 and 2012. <a data-evt-typ="click" data-evt-val="{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls", "target_url": "https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan/mmiwg-finding-of-race-based-genocide-gets-differing-reception-in-sask", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}" data-evt="click" href="https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan/mmiwg-finding-of-race-based-genocide-gets-differing-reception-in-sask">The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls</a>
concluded this year “there is no reliable estimate,” and “thousands of
women’s deaths or disappearances have likely gone unrecorded over the
decades.”</span></blockquote><p></p> <p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">That leaves many thousands of loved ones to mourn them.</span></p> </section> <section class="article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story"> <p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“Honest
to goodness, even today, when I watch the news or I listen to the
radio, and I see these same types of stories again and again and again.
Those poor aunties and mothers and grandmothers and family members left
behind,” said GoldenEagle.</span></p> <figure class="embedded-image" data-aqa="embed-image"> <picture class="embedded-image__ratio" style="font-family: Merriweather;"> <source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/leaderpost/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/bone_black-w-e1569949427774.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=564&type=webp&sig=DPQHLImlLYkjDwLJyNGMCg,
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too much. And so the character of Wren Strongeagle said the same thing,
‘It’s too much. I’m not just going to sit back and let someone who
causes harm to Indigenous women just walk away. Because <a data-evt-typ="click" data-evt-val="{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "it\u2019s time for us to do something because nobody else is doing anything.\u2019\u201d", "target_url": "https://leaderpost.com/news/national/police-forces-look-to-take-missing-murdered-indigenous-women-inquiry-findings/wcm/80326ac2-68c6-48d0-b398-a66e19e49148", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}" data-evt="click" href="https://leaderpost.com/news/national/police-forces-look-to-take-missing-murdered-indigenous-women-inquiry-findings/wcm/80326ac2-68c6-48d0-b398-a66e19e49148">it’s time for us to do something because nobody else is doing anything.’”</a></span></p> <p data-async=""><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">While GoldenEagle does not advocate murder, she hopes her book carries a message of incentive, <a data-evt-typ="click" data-evt-val="{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "encouraging people to \u201cfigure out a solution\u201d to an ongoing problem,", "target_url": "https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan/saskatoon-women-contribute-chapter-to-book-on-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}" data-evt="click" href="https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan/saskatoon-women-contribute-chapter-to-book-on-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls">encouraging people to “figure out a solution” to an ongoing problem,</a> the “crisis in Canada of missing and murdered Indigenous women.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">GoldenEagle believes people will either love or hate her new book.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“It
is kind of controversial,” she said. “Also an Indigenous woman is
raising her voice. And so a lot of people won’t like that, but too bad.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">GoldenEagle launched Bone Black on Oct. 9, 2019 at Bushwakker in Regina, and
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<span style="font-size: large;">Potent stories that offer a forceful vision of contemporary Navajo life, by an American Book Award winner </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-us.bookshop.org/ingram/9781644452035.jpg?height=500&v=v2-e8a8c20b80488bdd69f249b10cc74baa" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="500" src="https://images-us.bookshop.org/ingram/9781644452035.jpg?height=500&v=v2-e8a8c20b80488bdd69f249b10cc74baa" width="333" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">An ex-con hired to fix up a school bus for a couple living off the grid in the desert finds himself in the middle of their tattered relationship. An electrician's plan to take his young nephew on a hike in the mountains, as a break from the motel room where they live, goes awry thanks to an untrustworthy new coworker. A night custodian makes the mistake of revealing too much about his work at a medical research facility to a girl who shares his passion for death metal. A relapsing addict struggles to square his desire for a white woman he meets in a writing class with family expectations and traditions.
Set in and around Flagstaff, the stories in <i><b>Sinking Bell</b></i> depict violent collisions of love, cultures, and racism. In his gritty and searching fiction debut, Bojan Louis draws empathetic portraits of day laborers, metalheads, motel managers, aspiring writers and musicians, construction workers, people passing through with the hope of something better somewhere else. His characters strain to temper predatory or self-destructive impulses; they raise families, choose families, and abandon families; they endeavor to end cycles of abuse and remake themselves anew. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/books/sinking-bell-stories/9781644452035" target="_blank">BOOKSHOP </a></span></p><p><b>Bojan Louis</b> is Diné of the Naakai Dine'é, born for the Áshííhí. He is the author of a book of poetry, <i>Currents</i>, <i> </i>which
received an American Book Award. He has been a resident at MacDowell
and teaches creative writing at the University of Arizona.<span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> <br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Use the contact form on this blog! Get in touch! Megwetch!</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447055005417419055.post-23998629406164442652022-09-23T12:09:00.009-04:002022-09-23T12:17:51.865-04:00Native author Morgan Talty<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdVrCkCWYAA7NxW?format=jpg&name=medium" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdVrCkCWYAA7NxW?format=jpg&name=medium" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">🎉Congratulations <a href="https://twitter.com/Morgan_J_Talty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@morgan_j_talty</a>!<br /><br />Winner of the 🏆2022 New England Book Award for Fiction!<a href="https://twitter.com/NEIBAbooks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@neibabooks</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NEIBA?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NEIBA</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NEIBAAwards?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NEIBAAwards</a> <a href="https://t.co/J3ZTr0tLU2">pic.twitter.com/J3ZTr0tLU2</a></p>— Tin House (@Tin_House) <a href="https://twitter.com/Tin_House/status/1573281520244105216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2022</a></blockquote><p> </p><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-6gpygo r-14gqq1x" data-testid="UserName"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1awozwy r-18u37iz r-dnmrzs"><div class="css-901oao r-1awozwy r-18jsvk2 r-6koalj r-37j5jr r-adyw6z r-1vr29t4 r-135wba7 r-bcqeeo r-1udh08x r-qvutc0" dir="auto"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><br /></span></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-xoduu5 r-18u37iz r-1q142lx r-poiln3 r-adyw6z r-135wba7 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span></div></div></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1awozwy r-18u37iz r-1wbh5a2"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l" tabindex="-1"><div class="css-1dbjc4n"><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-testid="UserDescription" dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-size: x-large;">@Morgan_J_Talty Writer / pαnawάhpskewi from the Penobscot Indian Nation / NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ out now from</span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="font-size: x-large;"> <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/tin_house" role="link">@tin_house</a></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-testid="UserDescription" dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-testid="UserDescription" dir="auto"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="font-size: x-large;">reviews:</span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-testid="UserDescription" dir="auto">While soaked in pain and broken promises, <em>Night of The Living Rez</em>
delivers with a grace and dignity on par with the writings of Craig
Lesley, Dawn Dumont, James Welch and Joseph Dandurand. Morgan Talty
delivers on so many levels and proves that this is why Indigenous
Literature continues to be its own unique and sacred blessing. I loved
this book. Loved it. And I can't wait to see what Morgan Talty does
next. I am a fan for life. Mahsi cho, Morgan!--Richard Van Camp, author
of The Lesser Blessed<br /> </div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-testid="UserDescription" dir="auto">A collection of stories set in a Native
community in Maine, Talty's book centers questions of what it means to
be Penobscot today--what it means to live through and reckon with
historical tragedies. Talty grapples with such complicated inheritances
with tenderness and humor, with characters ranging from a boy who finds
an old curse in a jar to a grandmother struggling with Alzheimer's.--
"LitHub"<span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="font-size: x-large;"> <br /></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-testid="UserDescription" dir="auto"><span class="r-18u37iz"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">HIS WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.morgantalty.com/">https://www.morgantalty.com/</a></span></span> </span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-testid="UserDescription" dir="auto"><span class="r-18u37iz"> <br /> <br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p> </p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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the publishing industry, Barnes and Noble know a thing or two about
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Barnes and Noble an affordable option for any author. So if you’re
looking for a printer to help your book reach its full potential, look
no further than Barnes and Noble.</span></p><h3 id="h-2-variety-of-services"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>2. Variety of services</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Barnes
and Noble Printing offer various services that can be extremely helpful
for any author looking to self-publish their work. One of the main
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array of available options</b>. For instance, authors can choose to have
their books printed in black and white or full color and select from
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Printing is the perfect partner for all your printing needs.</span></p><h3 id="h-3-quick-turnaround-time"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>3. Quick turnaround time</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">When
it comes to printing services, Barnes and Noble is one of the most
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biggest is the quick turnaround time. Barnes and Noble offer some of the
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books printed and shipped out in a matter of days.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">This is a
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takes to produce a high-quality book. So if you’re looking for guidance
and support throughout the printing process, Barnes and Noble is the
perfect partner for you.</span></p><h3 id="h-5-affordable-prices"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>5. Affordable prices</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Any
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with Barnes and Noble printing services, you can get your book printed
without breaking the bank. Their competitive prices make Barnes and
Noble an affordable option for any author, no matter their budget.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">In
addition, Barnes and Noble offer discounts for larger print runs, which
can help to keep costs down even further. So if you’re looking for an
affordable way to self-publish your work, Barnes and Noble is worth
considering.</span></p><h3 id="h-6-excellent-customer-service"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>6. Excellent customer service</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Barnes
and Noble are known for providing excellent customer service. Their
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delighted with your printed book. So if you’re looking for a printer who
will go the extra mile to ensure you’re happy with your purchase,
Barnes and Noble is the right choice.</span></p><h3 id="h-7-free-shipping"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>7. Free shipping</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Another
great advantage of using Barnes and Noble Printing is that they offer
free shipping on all orders over $25. This is extremely helpful for
authors working on a tight budget as it helps keep costs down.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">In
addition, Barnes and Noble ships worldwide, so you can get your books
printed and shipped wherever you are. This is a massive advantage for
authors who have an international audience.</span></p><h2 id="h-12-steps-for-using-barnes-and-noble-printing-services"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>12 steps for using Barnes and Noble printing services</strong></span></h2><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Self-publishing
a book can be a daunting task, but with Barnes and Noble Printing
Services, it’s easier than ever. Here are eight simple steps to help you
get started.</span></p><h3 id="h-1-get-your-book-started"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>1. Get your book started</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The first step to publishing a book is <a href="https://leaderspress.com/making-yourself-dedicated-to-writing/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">writing</a>
it. Once you have written your book, it’s time to get started on the
editing process. You want to make sure your book is as perfect as
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allow you to create your book with help from a professional editor,
designer, and more. Upload your manuscript, select your cover art, and
choose the binding option that best suits your needs.</span></p><h3 id="h-2-choose-your-printing-options"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>2. Choose your printing options</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">There
are four different printing options available for Barnes and Noble
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illustrations, charts, and graphs that must be printed in color. It also
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This standard printing style has a full-color cover with
black-and-white interior pages. It’s perfect for textbooks or manuals
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and White: If you need to print a document that contains only
black-and-white images, charts, and graphs, this option is perfect for
you. It offers the lowest price per page of all four printing styles.</span></li></ul><h3 id="h-3-choose-your-paper-stock"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>3. Choose your paper stock</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The paper stock is the most impactful decision you can make regarding quality. The options are the following.</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Lightweight:
This option offers a few pages per pound and has a standard-quality
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or on a budget, such as flyers and brochures.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Heavyweight:
This heavyweight option gives you more pages per pound than lightweight
papers, and it’s also available in glossy and matte finishes—both of
which offer high-quality results.</span></li></ul><h3 id="h-4-select-your-binding-type"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>4. Select your binding type</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The
binding type of your book is another critical decision. The choices are
perfect binding, saddle stitching, and spiral binding.</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Perfect
binding: This option gives you a professional look with minimal
effort—fold the pages in half and secure them together with glue.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Saddle
stitching: To create this book style, fold the sheets in half
lengthwise and staple them on the left or right side (your choice).</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="https://blog.ironmarkusa.com/book-binding-spiral" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Spiral binding</a>: This option is great for books that must lie flat and stay open.</span></li></ul><h3 id="h-5-choose-your-cover-options"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>5. Choose your cover options</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">There are several options when it comes to booking covers. You can opt for a simple <a href="https://leaderspress.com/how-to-create-a-book-cover-that-sells/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">cover</a>
made of paper or plastic or choose one with a more decorative design.
If you’re making your books, you might consider using pre-made cover
templates designed specifically for printing on-demand services.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">You
can find these templates on different design sites like Canva. You can
also create your cover with Adobe or another design program, although
this option is best for people who are experienced in that medium.</span></p><h3 id="h-6-select-your-shipping-option"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>6. Select your shipping option</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Once
your book is ready to print, you’ll want to decide how you plan on
shipping it. You can choose from several different options, including
the following.</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Standard shipping – This option costs less but can take several weeks or more for your books to arrive at their destination.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Expedited shipping – This option costs more but will get your books to their destination faster than standard shipping.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">You can also choose to ship your book in bulk, lowering the cost per book but increasing the overall price.</span></p><h3 id="h-7-enter-your-payment-information"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>7. Enter your payment information</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Once
you’ve selected your shipping option, you’ll be presented with a
summary of your order. This will include the total cost of printing and
shipping. You can then enter your payment information to finalize your
order.</span></p><h3 id="h-8-review-and-submit-your-order"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>8. Review and submit your order</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">After
you’ve entered your payment information, you’ll be asked to review the
details of your order. You can also change any of the information on
this screen if needed. Once everything looks good, click submit, and
your order will be processed!</span></p><h3 id="h-9-approve-your-proof"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>9. Approve your proof</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Once
you’ve submitted your order, it will be processed by their printing and
shipping teams. You’ll receive proof of your order via email within
24-48 hours. This is where you’ll have the opportunity to make
last-minute changes or approve your product before it ships out!</span></p><h3 id="h-10-wait-for-your-book-to-arrive"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>10. Wait for your book to arrive</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">After
your book has been shipped, you’ll receive an email with a tracking
number so you can follow the progress of your order. You can also log
into your account to view past orders and shipping status.</span></p><h3 id="h-11-start-promoting-your-book"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>11. Start promoting your book</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Once
you’ve received your book and are ready to start promoting it, you’ll
want to start by creating a professional author website or blog. This is
where you can promote your book, sell it directly from your site, and
build an audience of loyal readers.</span></p><h3 id="h-12-enjoy-your-new-book"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>12. Enjoy your new book!</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Once
you’ve created your book and successfully published it, you can enjoy
all the benefits of being an author. You’ll be able to sell copies
directly from your website and use it as a promotional tool for other
writing projects. It’s also great to increase credibility and visibility
in your field!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Problems you may encounter: <a href="https://leaderspress.com/barnes-and-noble-printing/?inf_contact_key=2f69ef72e2651d9d8d24bf442a286dcd680f8914173f9191b1c0223e68310bb1" target="_blank">HERE</a> </span></p><h3 id="h-is-barnes-and-noble-press-worth-it"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong>Is Barnes and Noble press worth it?</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">First, Barnes and Noble’s press
is a self-publishing platform designed explicitly for <a href="https://leaderspress.com/how-to-publish-an-ebook/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">ebook</a>
publishing. That means you can get your book published and into the
hands of readers quickly and easily. And, because Barnes and Noble is
such a well-known and respected brand, you can be sure that your book
will be given the attention it deserves.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Plus, you retain complete
control of your book with Barnes and Noble Press. You decide how it
looks, the price, and when it goes on sale. So, if you’re looking for a
quick, easy, and affordable way to self-publish your book, then Barnes
and Noble’s press is worth considering.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Use the contact form on this blog! Get in touch! Megwetch!</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447055005417419055.post-67860946033467971692022-08-24T13:49:00.000-04:002022-08-24T13:49:07.846-04:00Beyond the Book Signing: Hybrid Events<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY-mCeSisiC384mcRJH5tbdIXkfD5sBvsKoQw9wOr9WxPpjvdSqhhF6q6---blhxkv7EYkZCr1meXHSYa847tzX-rlbkxj3-vjJfZTlG-xCe4TUQcj0Zo0uU9NrBqc3QjgoF93NWF7Lci13xv8zSzoo-Ev_M8z3b8KaagmeUpjFRleI8HmeTzgz2j2/s1600/bookmark%20BHB.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="882" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY-mCeSisiC384mcRJH5tbdIXkfD5sBvsKoQw9wOr9WxPpjvdSqhhF6q6---blhxkv7EYkZCr1meXHSYa847tzX-rlbkxj3-vjJfZTlG-xCe4TUQcj0Zo0uU9NrBqc3QjgoF93NWF7Lci13xv8zSzoo-Ev_M8z3b8KaagmeUpjFRleI8HmeTzgz2j2/s320/bookmark%20BHB.jpeg" width="176" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">our old BHB bookmark<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><h2><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="https://www.selfpublishedauthor.com/node/659">Hybrid Author Events: Ideas for Promoting a Book</a></span></h2><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
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</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">I’ve
always loved doing events, and when it comes to ideas for promoting a
book, there’s really nothing better than doing in-person author events.
But 2020 changed how events are managed, and even with lots of events
still coming back online, many conferences and book-centric events are
transitioning to the hybrid format.</span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">One thing I’ve heard repeatedly from speakers was that it’s often
hard to monetize an online event, and hybrid events are no different. In
this blog post, we’re going to look at how to get more events but also
how to monetize them.</span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Understanding Hybrid Author Events</strong></span><br />
So, what is a hybrid author event? Well, it’s an event that combines
both in-person and virtual elements. Your event pulls in an in-person
crowd and is broadcasted over Zoom or some other video conferencing
format. This means that you’re presenting to both a live and online
audience. This can feel a bit tricky the first time you do it – but
after one of these sessions, you’ll quickly get the hang of this way of
presenting your talk or teaching.</span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"></span></p><blockquote><b><span style="font-size: large;">I strongly feel many conferences, bookstore events, and other
speaking opportunities will morph into hybrid if they haven’t already
done so.</span></b></blockquote><p></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Author Event Types Come in All Forms</strong></span><br />
Over the 21 years I’ve been in business, I’ve done a lot of different
types of events and booked many for the authors we work with. Book
signings are just one of the many types of events that an author can do.
But if you opt to do a book signing, make sure you’re doing a book talk
too! Because let’s face it, sitting at a table all afternoon isn’t a
great use of your time, and a book talk and signing combined is much
more interesting both for the attendees and the readers.</span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">You may be called to speak at a conference or teach a workshop at a
bookstore regardless – speaking can be a great opportunity to present
your book to an even wider audience.</span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Ideas for Promoting a Book: Securing Your Author Event</strong></span><br />
The first step in securing an event is really deciding the type of event
you want. Do you want just to do a talk and sign books? Great, you’ll
probably want to get to know your local bookstores and speak with their
events manager.</span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">If you’re looking for some next-level author events, you’ll want to
consider conferences related to your topic or even trade shows with
speaking opportunities.</span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">If you want to get really creative, you might even want to do
in-store events. I’ve done events in Hallmark, at big electronics
stores, and even (and now I’m going to date myself) at Blockbuster
video.</span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">If you go for something like a Hallmark, or specialty store, you’re
probably looking at just doing a signing, which is fine for those
venues. But anything outside of a specialty store, you absolutely want
to push for an author talk.</span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>A Few Tips for Hybrid Author Events</strong></span><br />
Before diving into the idea of doing events, there are a few things to remember.</span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">First, make sure you have a good tech support person at the venue or
(if need be) bring someone with you. This is because you want this event
to be seamless for those attending online as it is for the in-person
attendees. Can they see you? Where is the camera? Are you using your
computer’s camera, or is there a separate one?</span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Most venues migrating into hybrid events will have a separate camera
connected to Zoom. This is because your laptop camera often isn’t
sufficient to capture all of the elements of your talk, especially if
you’re not standing directly in front of your computer.</span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Dive into this event by first focusing on the digital experience,
creating something highly visual, so the online group doesn’t feel left
out. Make sure that you know how to toggle between the faces you see in
the boxes and the chat box, so you can see if folks have popped in
questions. Some venues may do this for you, but some won’t be able to
spare the extra staff, so make sure you’re super comfortable on Zoom.</span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Create some kind of a bonus that both online and in-person folks can
benefit from. One thing I did for a recent event was an offer to mail
swag to those attending online. The conference loved this and even paid
for the postage to do so. If you have swag, especially, don’t leave the
online folks out in the cold. And keep in mind that if you’re eager to
monetize the event (and aren’t we all!), swag can be another great way
to do that.</span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Monetizing Author Events</strong></span><br />
This is where things start to get interesting because many authors who
did virtual-only events in 2020 showed up, gave their workshop, or
talked and walked away, often pretty disappointed. Did they sell a book?
Well, maybe, but frankly, it was hard to tell.</span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">After doing a bunch of online events, here is what I learned: <b>you
need a special offer</b>, some way to get folks to sign up for your list so
that you can market to them again. At its most basic, I offer to send a
copy of my slides to all attendees, even those who attend online. I did a
simple Google form to capture email addresses, and poof! Now I have a
mailing list, and the attendees get the slides; everyone is happy.</span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">For a recent hybrid event I did, I created a special book deal – so
two books for $15, and for the online folks, I added $5 for shipping. I
was amazed at how many books I sold. Don’t be afraid of creating these
kinds of deals, even if it means personally mailing copies of your books
out.</span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">If you only feel like you can offer swag, then do that – or even just
your slide deck, whatever it is, don’t leave a single event without
collecting email addresses. Not to spam, but to send a follow-up email
with more information about you, your books, and perhaps a special thank
you offer for attending your event. You’ll be surprised at how much
this can help to drive sales.</span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Events are great, but if your talk is part of a conference, you’ll
especially want to make sure that you create an offer because attendees
are probably bouncing from speaker to speaker, and at the end of the
event, you’ll want to make sure they remember you.</span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Whether virtual, in-person, or hybrid, author events, talks, workshops, or lectures are all great ideas for promoting a book.</span></p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Get creative and good luck!</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Use the contact form on this blog! Get in touch! Megwetch!</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0