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Award winning journalist and multi-genre Indigenous author Trace L. Hentz offers critical concise and insightful examination of current events, historical and headline news, and delves into the esoteric in her powerful new creative non-fiction “WHAT JUST HAPPENED,” the second in a series “It’s a Miracle We’ve Survived This Far.” As she explores in the book how the system isn’t broken, it was built this way, she expands on what is missing from today’s media coverage. “Our attention span is getting shorter so full-length books don’t translate and work for most people, so this book is 200 pages with intense yet brief analysis from some of the best minds, living or dead.”  Hentz expands her interviews with the late Santee Sioux poet prophet musician John Trudell in the fourth section.   Formatted in a similar fashion to her book MENTAL MIDGETS | Musqonocihte, WHAT JUST HAPPENED? has new prose, poetry and her photography. How readers experience a book can be brutal intense uplifting or

Publishing ... and Other Forms of Insanity: Self-Published Book Gets Movie Deal ... Without an... : This is an eye-opening article about a writer who could not get his book published and ended up with a movie deal.   Not a single agent was interested ... Want To See Your Book Become A Movie? It’ll Take Perseverance And Patience. By D. Eric Maikranz -April 6, 2021:  Book Baby Blog From Hollywood to Nepal, this story of how a self-published novel became a major motion picture started with an author’s crazy idea of turning readers into agents. Crazy… until it worked! My debut novel, The Reincarnationist Papers , is being re-released in print, eBook, and audiobook by Blackstone Publishing this year, the same year that the movie Infinite , a Paramount Pictures adaptation of my novel starring Mark Wahlberg and Dylan O’Brien, will hit theaters globally. This has been a dream come true for me, but only a few people know what it took to get here. It’s been a long journey of ups and downs

Christine M. DeLucia, Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018). Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as King Philip’s War, providing an alternative to Pilgrim-centric narratives that have conventionally dominated the histories of colonial New England. DeLucia grounds her study of one of the most devastating conflicts between Native Americans and European settlers in early America in five specific places that were directly affected by the crisis, spanning the Northeast as well as the Atlantic world. She examines the war’s effects on the everyday lives and collective mentalities of the region’s diverse Native and Euro-American communities over the course of several centuries, focusing on persistent struggles over land and water, sovereignty, resistance, cultural memory, and

  Return of the Trickster is a novel by Eden Robinson. (Knopf Canada, Red Works Photography) Return of the Trickster is the third book in celebrated writer Eden Robinson's Trickster trilogy, after Son of a Trickster and Trickster Drift . In Return of the Trickster , Jared is coming to terms with his trickster powers — and with the havoc they create for him and everyone he loves. His mom, Maggie, is coming to terms with them as well. But when his power-hungry Aunt Georgina comes to town, it's the beginning of a magical war — with Jared in the middle of it all. When you can read it: March 2, 2021 Why it took Eden Robinson eight years to write Son of a Trickster Robinson is an award-winning writer from Kitamaat, B.C. She is also the author of the novels Monkey Beach , Son of a Trickster and Trickster Drift . Return of the Trickster completes the Trickster trilogy. Son of a Trickster was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was championed on Canada

How about a book that makes you barge into your boss's office to read a page of poetry from? That you dream of? That every movie, song, book, moment that follows continues to evoke in some way? The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core) . The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. Eric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking.  About the Author Eric Gansworth, S˙ha-weñ na-saeˀ, is an enrolled Onondaga writer and visual artist, raised at the Tuscarora Nation. H

About the Author Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-nêhiyaw, Two-Spirit member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of the poetry collection  full-metal indigiqueer and the novel  Jonny Appleseed .   Jonny Appleseed  won the Lambda Literary Award for gay fiction. Jonny Appleseed ,  was longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction and the the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. His forthcoming work, Making Love With the Land , is set to be published in 2021. READ THIS INTERVIEW   Joshua also contributed to the anthology STOLEN GENERATIONS, published by Blue Hand Books!   Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction Edited by Joshua Whitehead As I was reading Love after the End , I was reminded just how colonialist SFF often is as a genre, whether it’s about “conquering new worlds” and literally establishing colonies,

Tommy Teebs Pico was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow, a 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry, and has poems in BOMB, Guernica, and the Offing. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Brooklyn and with Morgan Parker co-curates the reading series Poets With Attitude (PWA).  Image: Interview Magazine 2019 - Tommy Pico is author of the books IRL, Nature Poem, Junk , and Feed . Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now splits his time between Los Angeles and Brooklyn. He co-curates the reading series “Poets with Attitude,” co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot , and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub . Tags: Writing , Process , Beginnings , Adversity , Success , Identity As told to Ruby Brunton ON BOOKSHOP   Interview On not wasting any time Writer Tommy Pico on moving from poetry into screenwriting, and what it means to shake off imposter syndrome

Shawnee artist Michael Daugherty shares stories, rants, and personal thoughts about who he is and what it means to be an artist and Shawnee. Podcast  read his poem Only Indians can Talk to Animals SUPPORT HIS WORK! He's Wonderful!  VISIT HIS SHOP Michael Daugherty is an enrolled member of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, one of three federally recognized Shawnee Tribes. As an aspiring Shawnee artist, Michael also dreams of becoming a writer, filmmaker, and comic book creator. He loves creating new and meaningful art and he wants his art to reflect who he is as a Shawnee.   In December of 2016, Michael self-published his first children’s book on lulu.com called The Snake Hunter , about a little Shawnee boy named Eli Tecumseh who dreams of being a brave water protector like his dad, who is away fighting the “black snakes” that are destroying Mother Earth.   His second children’s book, Koko’s Secret Treasure , followed a few month

  From Indigenous feminism to the real story of Thanksgiving to a de-colonialist take on Star Trek, these podcasts show how the issues facing Native people affect all Americans. The Cuts With Sterlin Harjo Filmmaker Sterlin Harjo’s podcast, in which he conducts comfortable, intimate conversations with guests including Academy Award–winning director Taika Waititi and U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, was one of Matika Wilbur’s inspirations for starting All My Relations. “[ The Cuts ] was the first Native podcast I ever found,” Wilbur said. “I would play the episodes on repeat because sometimes as I was traveling for Project 562 , I’d be alone in spaces like an airport or on a long road where I’d feel like I was the only Native person in the room, and it just brought me so much comfort.” Listen: “ Shan Goshorn: The Only and Only ” Support The Cuts With Sterlin Harjo (Indian and Cowboy Media Network)   GREAT READ: Seven Essential Listens From the Indigenous Podcasting Boom | Vanity

                                            https://bookshop.org/a/17780/9780977918386 Learn about the life events and aspirations that shaped the voices of ten influential Native writers, whose novels, short stories and plays encompass the soul of Native life. Learn how these writers draw from personal experience to create situations and characters that are entertaining and poignant.  Featured writers include: Sherman Alexie (Spokane/Coeur d'Alene)  Marilyn Dumont (Cree/Métis) Joseph Boyden (Cree/Métis)  Louise Erdrich (Ojibwa) Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)  Tomson Highway (Cree) Maria Campbell (Métis)  N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa/Cherokee) Nicola Campbell (Interior Salish of Nle7kepmx) Tim Tingle (Choctaw) [Thompson] and Nsilx [Okanagan]/Métis)  Many individuals portrayed in the Native Trailblazers series surmounted adversity and humble beginnings in their journey for personal success. The Trailblazer books feature positive role models for Native students while providing non-

 REZ TALE debut reading! Blog: roninredshade “A Rez Tale” is the debut novel from Northern Arapaho filmmaker, artist, writer, and media educator Ernest M Whiteman III. It is a tale of two friends on the Wind River Indian Reservation, whose friendship changes through the years, leading up to an event that both changes their lives, and sets them on opposite trajectories in life. Join Ernest on December 5, 2020 at 5:00pm (CST) as he reads the first few chapters of his novel. This is his first self-published novel and it will go one sale on Smashwords on that same day. The first 10 ticket holders will get a coupon code to SmashWords for a free digital copy. Get tickets BY CLICKING HERE . We hope to see you there! Ernest M Whiteman III (Northern Arapaho) Redshade Productions Redshade Productions on YouTube Redshade Productions Official Site