Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts

Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and ArtsA necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant futurity by centering Native voices. Typically represented as unsolved mysteries or ruins of a tragic past, Indigenous mounds have long been marginalized and misunderstood. In Earthworks Rising, Chadwick Allen issues a compelling corrective, revealing a countertradition based in Indigenous worldviews. Alongside twentieth and twenty first century Native

Even as the dispossession and policies of assimilation have threatened Ojibwe peoplehood and have targeted the traditions and the elders who embody it

pre-professional women ethnologists would claim Indians as a special political cause

make some quick cash off his father's old Harley

This whimsical retelling of a pan-Arctic traditional story features lively

Sylvester Yellow Calf is a former reservation basketball star

this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew

Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete are fifth-generation weavers who grew up at the fabled Two Grey Hills trading post

Goodnight frogs croaking in the night

covered most of the year under snow and ice

among others—to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands

Josh experiences a yearning for something he cannot tame

he offers insights into how to read a room