This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories

This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and StoriesThis Accident of Being Lost is the knife sharp new collection of stories and songs from award winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically acclaimed collection Islands of Decolonial Love. Provocateur and poet, she continually rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out of time and resists

Beginning with the story of White Buffalo Cow Woman's first visit to the Sioux to give them the sacred pip

immigrants

Dez is navigating a new relationship and coming into her identity as a Two-Spirit person

The Ojibwe life-world

Similar to the first volume

Steven Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape)

including government documents

and symbols that illustrate how intimately his people have known and honored the earth and its history for more than a hundred centuries

which signified the concept of mutual human respect

Told in eloquent layers that blend Native stories and metaphor with social and spiritual journeys

Keewaydinoquay was one of the very few Native American women who was steeped both in the ancient folkways of her people as well as erudite in the American university system

like the women gathered here