tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41575210543864615862024-03-18T23:53:21.546-04:00Bad NDNSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4157521054386461586.post-92002560702558454462022-11-12T23:27:00.010-05:002022-11-13T10:30:01.253-05:00Lane County Farmer's Market<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Lane County Farmer’s Market</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We’re two weeks into November, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">the air sharp as a blade of ice. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You buy a jar of blackberry honey </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">at a stall that conjures radiance. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I rest our bags on the ground; </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">sleek leeks, onions in crackly skins, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">heavy carrots and potatoes. All around us, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">people with baskets on their arms </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">touch, taste, weigh, praise. Exult.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Is it my imagination, or is everyone </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">light-hearted, happy, damn near giddy </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">with relief? “It’s going to be an amazing meal,” </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">a woman promises her companion. Their arms </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">cradle smooth-skinned butternut squash </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and bulbous stalks of Brussel sprouts. I stand </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">beside a sapling that still bears green leaves, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">scalloped edges gleaming gold. Right there, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">in air almost cold enough to snow, my heart unfurls </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">like a fiddlehead fern—completely out of season. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My heart thinks its spring: the world opening up </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">after darkness, sun returning, seedlings emerging </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">like little emissaries from a country </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">called hope. Silly heart. It falls in love </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">with every person who strolls past. Reverently, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">you tuck the amber jar into one of our bags. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As we walk, you name the soups in our future: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">potato leek, carrot ginger, French onion. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Our bellies know we teeter on the edge </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">of the long darkness. But today, the word </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">November is just a series of black marks </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">on the calendar. Not our souls.</span></div><div><br /></div></div></div><br /><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4157521054386461586.post-88036592680570528562021-11-04T07:59:00.007-04:002021-11-04T11:57:38.763-04:00San Carlos Day Mass, 142 Years Ago Today<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhbYktFnBmSV0MlT7MdacY-sdDNUOYldiz0Xb736_4kDnRLdS24ACt4CELZIK-byuulWiWhb5n7SEzGT0uICPXocBvAJk3q1yCluTxuGWjd1u6tGIzYFE-AorD8A_lnbGmYOelwMSZUoY/s602/San+Carlos+Day+Mass.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="602" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhbYktFnBmSV0MlT7MdacY-sdDNUOYldiz0Xb736_4kDnRLdS24ACt4CELZIK-byuulWiWhb5n7SEzGT0uICPXocBvAJk3q1yCluTxuGWjd1u6tGIzYFE-AorD8A_lnbGmYOelwMSZUoY/w640-h520/San+Carlos+Day+Mass.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">One hundred and forty-two years ago today, on San Carlos Day, November 4 1879, Rev. Angelo Casanova led a small group of local Catholics from Monterey to the ruins of San Carlos mission to celebrate a mass on the occasion of St. Carlos de Borromeo’s name day. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Both author Robert Louis Stevenson and his son-in-law, artist Joseph Strong, attended. Later, each man recorded the event in their own genre. Stevenson describes the elderly Indian man leading the service as “An Indian, stone-blind and about eighty years of age, [who] conducts the singing” and adds that he and the other Indians, “…have the Gregorian music at their finger-ends, and pronounce the Latin so correctly that I could follow the meaning as they sang.” </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Strong made a sketch of the mass (above); at the center is an elderly Indian man. Barefoot, legs spread, knees slightly bent, a shock of white hair streaming past his shoulders, the man stands just off-center and just behind Fr. Casanova. He claims space in tattered coat and pants. With one hand, he plants a long cane on the flagstones; with the other, he holds the hand of a young Indian boy—perhaps a guide, an altar boy, or perhaps leading the child to baptism, as suggested in some records.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Steven Hackel, in his book Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis, asserts that “little is known” about the elderly Indian beyond his name: “Old Ventura”; Sydney and Margerite Temple note:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPiaSXQl_Ge-eLZzxZWs79lv5ABORmrFi8lhalaK7j-bi7o-gTgVH_VXhc0fspP0tQAAVT7jT9mRvk2w5HJdNjKeemIDTTbk35vP16FN3ytUu1gEwCPO8v6MfEP5jADBLmtFzTQ1Ih_mU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="618" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPiaSXQl_Ge-eLZzxZWs79lv5ABORmrFi8lhalaK7j-bi7o-gTgVH_VXhc0fspP0tQAAVT7jT9mRvk2w5HJdNjKeemIDTTbk35vP16FN3ytUu1gEwCPO8v6MfEP5jADBLmtFzTQ1Ih_mU/w442-h169/image.png" width="442" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">while James Sandos writes,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTI4Jf34iMYTxsBmuCqHLBHC1BNKAD82mZcLlse327yrTBXSx-EgzgukDjly4gyLI1yEJg6XSBOmPzed2BYeL8CwFoLmYrgyHlOtmIfy9j8erdz1yRRK2Uz70p3kyfmecytUg_EVx878w/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="170" data-original-width="940" height="121" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTI4Jf34iMYTxsBmuCqHLBHC1BNKAD82mZcLlse327yrTBXSx-EgzgukDjly4gyLI1yEJg6XSBOmPzed2BYeL8CwFoLmYrgyHlOtmIfy9j8erdz1yRRK2Uz70p3kyfmecytUg_EVx878w/w665-h121/image.png" width="665" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">However, based on oral and written records of that time, I am certain that “Old Ventura” is my great-great-great-great uncle, Ventura Cantua/Soto (he used both surnames, at different times in his life), who was trained as a Cantor at San Carlos (Carmel) Mission.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ventura's story emerges from the oral narratives of Isabel Meadows, supplemented with historical documents and ethnographic materials. At a time when the life expectancy of a child born into the missions was 7-9 years, Ventura lives from 1816-1883 -- not the "eighty years" Stevenson imagined, but still a startling sixty-seven years. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Spanning the Spanish Mission, Mexican Rancho and American Eras, Ventura’s long life gives us an intimate look at the brutal treatment of Indigenous masculinity throughout all three invasions and the violent imposition of hegemonic masculinity, particularly the patriarchal teachings of the colonizing Catholic Church. Much of what we think of as Historical Trauma comes to us today through these mostly unknown experiences of Indigenous men at a time when, as Anthony Correale writes, “…both cultural identity and masculine identity are repressed and warped by imperialism.”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I'm thinking about you today, Ventura.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I'm thinking about the ways Indigenous men’s suffering and identity fragmentation became a part of who we are today, a remnant of missionization that, like many other scars, we cannot – and perhaps should not – erase. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“I want to suggest that we can rethink our relation to scars, including emotional and physical scars," Sara Ahmed writes. She reminds us that we have normalized what a "good" scar is; it is one that is hard to see, preferably invisible; after all, isn't that the goal of a good surgeon? Yet this kind of "good" scar "does not remind us of the wounding." Ahmed says this as if being reminded of the wounding were a good thing. As if it were a kind of writing, a teaching, that we must pay attention to. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It's true, we’ve been taught that if we can erase our scars, make them invisible to ourselves and everyone else, that would be "healing." That would be the end of shame, fear and despair.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And yet, Ahmed continues, "A good scar is one that sticks out, a lumpy sign on the skin. It’s not that the wound is exposed or that the skin is bleeding. But the scar is a sign of the injury: a good scar allows healing, it even covers over, but the covering always exposes the injury, reminding us of how it shapes the body ….”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">How multi-faceted scars are! To simultaneously heal, cover, expose, remind; aren’t these the actions of a teacher?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“This kind of good scar reminds us that recovering from injustice cannot be about covering over injuries, which are effects of that injustice, signs of an unjust contact between our bodies and others," Ahmed insists. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I am drawn to that phrase, “unjust contact” – contact we did not want or ask for; contact that is invasive, appropriative, criminal. Yes, scars do so much work: they remind us that even as we recover from those wounds of unjust contact, we must not forget what caused them, we must remember in order to protect ourselves and others against future wounding. We are holey beings, stitched together by our scars, by which I mean our experiences, our knowledges, a kind of testimony that is literally written on our bodies. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Ventura, at this distance of time and experience, maybe all I can do is excavate, expose, and witness your experience, your efforts to survive. Honor who you tried to be: son, father, grandfather, cantor, choirmaster, a <i>man,</i> who -- blind, aged, poor, traumatized -- was able to sing an entire Mass in Latin at the end of your life despite all the violence visited upon you, and despite all the violence that passed through you, and on into our family and community. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I'm trying to find the story you were meant to tell. I'm trying to read your scars, because they are the same scars written on our own bodies, today.</div><div><br /></div></div><br /></span></div><div><br /></div></div></div><p><br /><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4157521054386461586.post-43592216670866146642020-10-15T11:37:00.001-04:002020-10-15T11:37:26.236-04:00Sunrise<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><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;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPJ6018uk5Gk2HvVETBrIPyseixP1koG1WGCdNrCaENQKufo2JuJmHHPm2PGDuJnQdKaocY46IiCCMHw1m7SjU8lSAgfZK2QSa1RUZEK9pquuMpD5QSXr1SScfo4lTmMn8rbQZgpnccXA/s690/Screen+Shot+2020-10-15+at+11.34.08+AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="424" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPJ6018uk5Gk2HvVETBrIPyseixP1koG1WGCdNrCaENQKufo2JuJmHHPm2PGDuJnQdKaocY46IiCCMHw1m7SjU8lSAgfZK2QSa1RUZEK9pquuMpD5QSXr1SScfo4lTmMn8rbQZgpnccXA/w394-h640/Screen+Shot+2020-10-15+at+11.34.08+AM.png" width="394" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">photo by Deborah Miranda</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><b><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Sunrise</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br />Every day <br /><span> </span><span> </span>is a little resurrection. <br />Every day <br /><span> </span><span> </span>is a newborn phoenix. <br />We awaken in the ashes <br /><span> </span><span> </span>of the previous day’s dream<br />or grief. A morning ritual – <br /><span> </span><span> </span>face and hands washed<br />with prayer – clarifies boundaries.<br /><span> </span><span> </span>Open your heart.<br />Release yesterday’s bones.<br /><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Offer each day<br />an armful of wild roses,<br /><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the prick of thorns.<br /> All you need carry forward<br /><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>is the memory of petals,<br />the feral tracks of wonder<br /><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>on your skin.</span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span> </span><span> - Deborah A. Miranda</span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4157521054386461586.post-47783171438138425452020-10-12T10:04:00.004-04:002020-10-13T10:19:24.963-04:00PROCLAMATION<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcopwr5Up1NXgcouzBaHpww3MUFBLrwCu3vY-K0oRZifFhXeoNBQr8LCBENzIrIqpF62XB1rz3kXlmMYkOREY9weiz-g3NjtAg_11H2h3Xqz_OUyAb2Vl6y7FZu4-jdlWI82lKkkUspLo/s1016/Screen+Shot+2020-10-12+at+9.55.26+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="1016" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcopwr5Up1NXgcouzBaHpww3MUFBLrwCu3vY-K0oRZifFhXeoNBQr8LCBENzIrIqpF62XB1rz3kXlmMYkOREY9weiz-g3NjtAg_11H2h3Xqz_OUyAb2Vl6y7FZu4-jdlWI82lKkkUspLo/w640-h456/Screen+Shot+2020-10-12+at+9.55.26+AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Proclamation <span style="color: #cccccc;">on Columbus Day, 2020</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: medium;">Issued on: October 9, 2020</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">More than 500 years ago, Christopher Columbus’s intrepid voyage to </span>the New World<span style="color: #cccccc;"> ushered in a new era of exploration and discovery. His travels led to European contact with </span>the Americas<span style="color: #cccccc;"> and, a century later, the first settlements </span>on the shores<span> of</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> the modern day United States. </span><span>Today,</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span>we celebrate<span style="color: #cccccc;"> Columbus Day to commemorate </span>the<span style="color: #cccccc;"> great Italian who opened a new chapter in world history and to appreciate his </span>enduring <span style="color: #cccccc;">significance to the Western Hemisphere.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">When Christopher Columbus and his crew sailed across the </span>Atlantic Ocean<span style="color: #cccccc;"> on the Niña, Pinta, and Santa María it marked the beginning of a new era in human history. For Italian Americans, Christopher Columbus represents one of the first of many </span>immeasurable<span style="color: #cccccc;"> contributions of Italy to American history. As a </span>native<span style="color: #cccccc;"> of Genoa, Columbus inspired early immigrants to carry forth their rich Italian heritage to the New World. Today, the United States benefits from the warmth and </span>generosity <span style="color: #cccccc;">of nearly 17 million Italian Americans, whose </span>love of family and <span style="color: #cccccc;">country strengthen the fabric of our </span>Nation<span style="color: #cccccc;">. For </span>our beautiful<span style="color: #cccccc;"> Italian American communities — and Americans of every background –Columbus remains a legendary figure.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Sadly, in recent years, radical activists have sought to undermine Christopher Columbus’s </span>legacy<span style="color: #cccccc;">. These extremists seek to replace discussion of his </span>vast <span style="color: #cccccc;">contributions with talk of failings, his discoveries with atrocities, and his achievements with transgressions. Rather than learn from our history, this radical ideology and its adherents seek to revise it, deprive it of any </span>splendor<span style="color: #cccccc;">, and</span> mark it as inherently<span style="color: #cccccc;"> sinister. They seek to squash any dissent from their orthodoxy. We must not give in to these tactics or consent to such a bleak view of our history. We must teach </span>future <span style="color: #cccccc;">generations about </span>our <span style="color: #cccccc;">storied </span>heritage<span style="color: #cccccc;">, starting with the protection of monuments to </span>our <span style="color: #cccccc;">intrepid heroes like Columbus. This June, I signed an Executive Order to ensure that any person or group destroying or vandalizing a Federal monument, memorial, or statue is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the </span>law<span style="color: #cccccc;">.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">I have also taken steps to ensure that </span>we preserve<span style="color: #cccccc;"> our Nation’s history and promote patriotic education. In July, I signed another Executive Order to build </span>and rebuild <span style="color: #cccccc;">monuments to iconic American figures in </span>a <span style="color: #cccccc;">National </span>Garden of<span style="color: #cccccc;"> American Heroes. In September, I announced the </span>creation<span style="color: #cccccc;"> of the 1776 Commission, which will encourage our educators to </span>teach our children about the miracle of <span style="color: #cccccc;">American history and </span>honor <span style="color: #cccccc;">our founding. In addition, last month I signed an Executive Order to root out the teaching of racially divisive concepts from the Federal workplace, many of which are </span>grounded <span style="color: #cccccc;">in the same type of revisionist history that is trying to erase Christopher Columbus from our national heritage. </span>Together<span style="color: #cccccc;">, we must safeguard our history and stop </span>this <span style="color: #cccccc;">new </span>wave <span style="color: #cccccc;">of iconoclasm by standing against those who spread hate and division.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">On this Columbus Day, </span>we embrace<span style="color: #cccccc;"> the same optimism that led Christopher Columbus to discover </span>the <span style="color: #cccccc;">New </span>World<span style="color: #cccccc;">. </span>We inherit <span style="color: #cccccc;">that optimism, along with </span>the <span style="color: #cccccc;">legacy of American heroes who </span>blazed<span style="color: #cccccc;"> the trails, settled a </span>continent<span style="color: #cccccc;">, tamed </span>the wilderness<span style="color: #cccccc;">, and built the single-greatest nation </span>the<span style="color: #cccccc;"> world has ever seen.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">In commemoration of Christopher Columbus’s historic </span>voyage<span style="color: #cccccc;">, the Congress, by joint resolution of April 30, 1934, </span>modified<span style="color: #cccccc;"> in 1968 (36 U.S.C. 107), has requested the President proclaim the second Monday of October of each year as “Columbus Day.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, </span>by virtue<span style="color: #cccccc;"> of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 12, 2020, as Columbus Day. I </span>call upon the people<span style="color: #cccccc;"> of the United States to observe this day </span>with <span style="color: #cccccc;">appropriate </span>ceremonies <span style="color: #cccccc;">and activities. I also direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all public buildings on the appointed day </span>in honor of our diverse <span style="color: #cccccc;">history and all who have contributed to shaping this </span>Nation<span style="color: #cccccc;">.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">IN WITNESS WHEREOF<span style="color: #cccccc;">, I have hereunto set </span>my hand<span style="color: #cccccc;"> this ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty, and of the Independence of the United States of </span>America<span style="color: #cccccc;"> the two hundred and forty-fifth.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><><</span><span style="color: #cccccc;">><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Proclamation</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">the New World</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">the Americas</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">on the shores </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">of Today, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">we celebrate </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">the enduring</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Atlantic Ocean—</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">immeasurable</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">native </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">generosity, love of family</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">and nation—</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">our beautiful</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">legacy,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">vast splendor</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">mark it as inherently</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">future,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">our heritage</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">our law</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">we preserve</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">and rebuild</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">a Garden of</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">creation, teach our children</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">about the miracle of honor,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">grounded together,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">this wave:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">we embrace</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">the World; we inherit the </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">blazed continent, the wilderness,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">the voyage</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">modified</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">by virtue</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">call upon the people</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">with ceremonies</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">in honor of our diverse</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Nation</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">IN WITNESS WHEREOF </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">my hand,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">America.</span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXTd5g4fGFgfRJVI4OaLvIYbfnt02dTeHWMsSCd7OW3yJoJbrp3VhtuqeQR6dA8ch0oRY8Fo034fq88-o-xh_RSwDZjHbxbeWehbtWOi7VtBJ4AqVOBGtrDrDXUjHb7l8vhNBz3Eag0Cg/s740/Screen+Shot+2020-10-12+at+10.02.26+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="740" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXTd5g4fGFgfRJVI4OaLvIYbfnt02dTeHWMsSCd7OW3yJoJbrp3VhtuqeQR6dA8ch0oRY8Fo034fq88-o-xh_RSwDZjHbxbeWehbtWOi7VtBJ4AqVOBGtrDrDXUjHb7l8vhNBz3Eag0Cg/w640-h381/Screen+Shot+2020-10-12+at+10.02.26+AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p>erasure poem, poem, and artwork </p><p>by Deborah A. Miranda</p><p>October 12, 2020</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4157521054386461586.post-48787995949567935732020-10-05T08:20:00.000-04:002020-10-05T08:20:00.018-04:00In the Thick of It<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQUZ7_xWSyMEbpX4CeVj996011W0IEWqlmJOBYzWZljxdHr-70OAawR2a9w5dhqUHPe6-ErMkpXMq0LaBviiud_8xjAWUm4X2WBxafSEz2xT01ZIt6_o_zm4ITc4U5fLdk-9s9pI3yqHA/s515/Screen+Shot+2020-10-05+at+8.01.06+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="515" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQUZ7_xWSyMEbpX4CeVj996011W0IEWqlmJOBYzWZljxdHr-70OAawR2a9w5dhqUHPe6-ErMkpXMq0LaBviiud_8xjAWUm4X2WBxafSEz2xT01ZIt6_o_zm4ITc4U5fLdk-9s9pI3yqHA/w640-h360/Screen+Shot+2020-10-05+at+8.01.06+AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Fogged in here this morning:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Our little world invisible </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">in the visible. An invasion </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">of moisture hangs in the air; </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">water vapor needs </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">particles of dust to attach itself </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">to in order to be seen – </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">this year we've been trapped </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">in a fog made of the smoke</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> from burning redwoods and oaks, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> Indigenous bodies, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Black bodies. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sea fog forms around tiny crystals of salt</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">in our tears. Ashes to salt, salt to dust,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">dust to fog, fog to air, and here we are: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">we can’t see, we can’t navigate, we can’t </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">bury our dead. We stay inside our houses, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">or walk cautiously down our neighborhood streets </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">in search of an open grocery store, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">or drive slowly, cautious, afraid we might </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">have to speak with another unmasked </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">human being. This year of reckoning, we struggle </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">in our national miasma. How thick the air, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">how hard it is to breathe inside </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">a foundation made of fog.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Deborah A. Miranda</span></div><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4157521054386461586.post-5762501523247199042020-08-16T03:16:00.004-04:002020-08-16T12:53:41.569-04:00Toppling Mission Monuments and Mythologies<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC9XBGfAX-jz3D6BsHZluog?fbclid=IwAR27T8I_xnbrrH9KDx3uWlA-3rM_yIDjlcqyXZBL_2V6PR4dWHhhsMZfCxQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="870" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq3IZPKjIbzrFGO7oukALrMmxdog3-JZy9fQV9le0HlIzYnNrJqKjchiG6DxgZvsUmh9_ONg6mOnVu_oFohmMTZp2jybrE_NfrVH1JaMU77XhzzWVKxXjqvGQrW9A4Gn8L8DNu2hf_72I/s640/Screen+Shot+2020-08-14+at+7.28.52+AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Serra’s Paternalism as a Form of Violence: Why the Statues Must Come Down</span></p><p style="text-align: center;">by Deborah A. Miranda</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Delivered at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC9XBGfAX-jz3D6BsHZluog?fbclid=IwAR27T8I_xnbrrH9KDx3uWlA-3rM_yIDjlcqyXZBL_2V6PR4dWHhhsMZfCxQ" target="_blank">Toppling Mission Mythologies Conference, July 15 2020</a>, sponsored by the <a href="https://criticalmissionstudies.ucsd.edu/" target="_blank">Critical Mission Studies Project.</a> The Conference Roundtable Response from Jalane Schmidt and Amy Lonetree is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47EGNL0fNOk&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3BwOGJG7XKVgiZbBl7iNuo46zZwZ9IpbRMNyVeZyrmH0ng7wZQpG4pnuU" target="_blank">posted separately here. </a></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Saleki Atsa, Haku. Thank you everyone, especially to our organizers and to the participants and our audience. This is a huge occasion and I’m really, really honored to be part of it. I come to you from a place currently called Lexington, Virginia. I also sometimes, in my more bitter moments, call it Confederatlandia, but we’re taking care of that. I want to give acknowledgement to the land I’m on right now, which is Monacan land here in Virginia.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">This conference, in a lot of ways, is about voices that haven’t been heard – as the Assemblyman was just telling us. In <i>Bad Indians</i>, I tried to create a space for those voices, and pull those voices out of the archives. This is one voice, and I thought it was appropriate for today’s topic. It’s from a section called “My Very Late 4th Grade Mission Project: Glossary definition: Padre.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></b></p><blockquote><p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">PADRE.</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>“The neophyte community was like one great family, at the head of which stood the padre . . . To him the Indians looked for everything concerning their bodies as well as their souls. He was their guide and their protector …” (Zephyrin Englehardt). </i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Padre baptized us, gave us names and godparents; he taught us our catechism, officiated at our first communion, posted our marriage banns, he performed our weddings, baptized our babies, administered last rites, listened to our confessions; he punished us when we prayed to the wrong god or tired of our wives or husbands. He taught us to sing (our own songs were ugly), he taught us to speak (our own languages were nonsensical), he made us wear clothes (our bodies were shameful), he gave us wheat and the plow (our seeds and acorns fit only for animals).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Yes, that Padre, he was everything to us Indians. At the giving end of a whip, he taught us to care for and kill the cattle whose hides were called “mission dollars,” worked us in the fields of wheat and corn and barley, instructed us in the building of adobe to make the Church, the monjerio, storerooms – promised it all to us if we would just grow up, pray hard enough, forget enough. <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>But it all went to Spain, to Rome, to Mexico, into the pockets of merchants, smugglers, priests, dishonest administrators and finally the cruel Americans. Nothing left for the children the Padre had worked so hard to civilize, poor savages pulled from the fires of certain Hell. He was our shepherd, we were his beloved and abused flock; now the fields are eaten down to the earth, we claw the earth yet even the roots are withered, and the shepherd has gone away. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>But we are pagans no more! Now we are Christian vaqueros, Christian housekeepers, Christian blacksmiths and shoemakers and laundry women and wet nurses and handymen – none of us paid with more than a meal or a shirt or a pair of discarded boots – but Christians, poor Christians, drunken Christians, meek targets for 49’ers crazed by goldlust or ranchers hungry for land. We are homeless Christians, starving Christians, diseased and landless Christians; we are Christian slaves bought and sold in newspapers, on the auction blocks, San Francisco, Los Angeles, one hundred dollars for a likely young girl, fifty dollars for an able-bodied young boy, free to whoever bails the old men out of jail: every one of us baptized by the Padre, our primitive souls snatched from this Hell our bodies cannot escape, we are Christian, we are Catholic, we are saved by the Padres and for that, Jesus Christ, we must be grateful.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large; white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://heydaybooks.com/bad-indians/" target="_blank">(Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir. Heyday 2013)</a></p></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I chose that piece to read because we are told that Junipero Serra brought Christianity to California Indigenous peoples – with the implication being, we Indians lived in a deficit of spirituality, of self-governance, and of an understanding of relationship with higher powers. If Serra had brought us the choice of Christianity – with no punishment for choosing to remain faithful to our own religions and ways of knowing the world – perhaps that would have been different. But Serra did not just “bring” us Christianity; he imposed it, he forced it, he violated us with it, giving us no choice in the matter. About this, Serra famously wrote that he was doing no more than a father would do with his children. Paternalism, as he used it, is a term that comes with overtones of wise fatherly responsibility and guidance. But the paternalism that Serra claimed as his right to impose was much more sinister; under any label, the paternalism practiced during the missionization of California was a form of violence – particularly when those being subsumed already live in cultures rich with religion, languages, literatures, governance, family structures, and social traditions that have served them well for thousands of years. We were living in a <i>wealth</i> of spirituality – not a deficit.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Missionization, for California Indians, was more like indoctrination in an abusive cult than spiritual grace. Natives who resisted or refused conversion were beaten, imprisoned, starved, exiled from their homelands – usually by soldiers, at the behest of priests. Religion was the stealth weapon of Spanish colonization; a “moral” reason for conquest, to protect lands Spain wanted for itself. In addition to Catholicism, the Spaniards brought disease, including their own special brand of syphilis that not only sterilized Native women but caused birth defects, blindness and death. We lost 90% of our population in missionized territories, in 70 years. In other historical contexts, this is called genocide, a crime against humanity. Violently enforced religion is not missionization, it is terrorism.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">The missionaries’ efforts directly caused generations of trauma to California Indians from which we are still recovering. But we are recovering. As Athabascan scholar Dian Million writes, “We are not our trauma. We can work at healing without being victims. We can be damaged and still be sovereign.” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Why, then, should Indigenous peoples – and anyone aware of or interested in actual history – welcome the monuments to Serra that are everywhere in California? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Serra, many argue, was simply "a man of his times." In other words, colonization happens, and we should not blame those caught up in it. But that has a flip side to it: if Serra was, in fact, “a man of his times” in 1769 when he founded the first California mission in San Diego, he should have known better: Bartolome de las Casas knew better in 1552 when he published "A Brief History of the Destruction of the Indies," and spent his entire life working for the freedom of Indians and return of their lands (a wealthy man, a priest, and former Indian slave-holder); a document Serra and all priests in training would have read and debated. Padre Antonio Horra knew better in 1799 when he protested soldiers' rapes and beatings of Indian converts at his California mission. The Church officials in California and Mexico sent poor Padre Horra home saying he had gone insane from the stress of missionization and his inability to deal with the hardships of The New World. Horra, however, told a different story: “The treatment shown to the Indians is the most cruel … For the slightest things they receive heavy floggings, are shackled, and put in the stocks, and treated with so much cruelty that they are kept whole days without a drink of water.” Horra added that charges of insanity were false and brought against him because of his serious charges of cruelty by priests and soldiers, and mismanagement of Church resources (Bancroft 587). In closing, Horra asked to be sent back to Spain because he feared for his life – not because of savage Indians, but due to his own Franciscan brethren.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Many many other letters, diaries and records of others traveling in California during Serra’s tenure and afterwards left behind testimonies of the brutality brought on by the missions. In 1786, French explorer Jean-François de la Pérouse observed that during his visit to Mission Carmel a mere three years after Serra’s death, “Everything reminded us of a habitation in Saint Domingo, or any other West Indian slave colony. The men and women are assembled by the sound of the bell, one of the religious conducts them to their work, to church, and to all other exercises. We mention it with pain, the resemblance to a slave colony is so perfect, that we saw men and women loaded with irons, others in the stocks; and at length the noise of the strokes of a whip struck our ears.” Other visitors in the same era noted that Indians were even beaten with a whip or cane when they did not “attend [to] a worship ceremony.” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">These people saw through “the eyes of their time” and what they saw disturbed them deeply. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I feel strongly that as one of the few descendants of the Indians who survived the missions, I have a responsibility to my Ancestors and to my own descendants to speak up and try to create a clearer understand about why Junipero Serra’s statues and monuments are another historical flogging of California Indians; these honorings of Serra work to erase, silence, and discredit California Indian lives and histories just as much as the original missions. No, Serra was not the only one involved. Yes, he was part of an intricate machine run by the Spanish Crown’s political desires, the Spanish military’s might, and the Vatican’s multiple ambitions to convert and acquire both souls and wealth. But Serra was also a man who, like many before him, was faced with a choice: go along with the program, achieve his own personal goals, and ignore the larger crimes – or take a stand against inherently inhumane and unChristian acts against a people who were obviously vulnerable to diseases and technologies far different from his own.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Serra made his choice. It was a choice that we California Indian peoples have suffered for. Economic, psychological and intergenerational trauma continue. But that choice does not make him a saint, or worthy of a statue valorizing him as a leader of any kind. Those of us alive now have a choice, as well; in fact, we have the same choice: do we remain silent, frozen with old fears and mythologies, or speak out, take action, finally assert that other, more complete histories that we know, histories that reveals the Indigenous figure is not kneeling, and the missionary has no halo?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’d like to finish up with a very short poem.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></b></p><blockquote><p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Teheyapami Achiska</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Giving Honor</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large; white-space: pre;"> </span><i>for my sister Louise, and The Breath of Life Language Conference</i></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Eni micha elpa mishmaxanano </span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I feel you in my blood,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">nishiyano nishiti’anaxno, nishahurno.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">in my bones, my gut, my teeth.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Name sikosura niche a’kxi, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">You rise all around, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">kolopisik xulin opa.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">return like a lover.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Nishkuuh, niche lahake.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">my basket, carry me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">nishimila, niche lasapke.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">my ocean, bathe me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">eni namexumunipsha, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I am your hummingbird</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">name hi’iyatan neku masianehk.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">you are a flower of the heart. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Name cha’a nishkxatasaxno, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I feel you in my head, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">nishxushuno, nishkeleno.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">my hands, my feet. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Uxarat kai pire.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">We dance on the cliff of the world.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Name cha’a nishchawisaxno,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I feel you in my spine, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">nishxorksno, nishsixihano.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">my throat, my womb. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Namesanaxkak opa, eni inamkak opa.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">You are a river, I am the rain. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mantuxite, mantuxite,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">It is true, it is true,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">mantuxite, mantuxite.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">it is true, it is true. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Nishwelel, lexwelel:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">My language, our language: </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">maksiri maknoco.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">breath of life.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote><p><i><a href="https://heydaybooks.com/bad-indians/" target="_blank">(Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir. Heyday 2013)</a></i></p><p></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Nimasianexelpasaleki. Thank you.</span></p><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4157521054386461586.post-61458199630331119692020-02-29T12:23:00.002-05:002020-02-29T12:36:23.892-05:00Transplant<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="9kt6r" data-offset-key="8h5vm-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In Washington State, where I relocated from Los Angeles with my mother and new step-father in 1965, I was always a transplant - either enchanted or despicable, depending on perspective. “I wish I had a year-round tan like yours,” a teenaged step-cousin told me; I think it was her attempt to be nice. “Mexican turd,” hissed another step-cousin, a boy my age with small blue eyes and skin the color of lawn mushrooms. Looking at photographs of Wickersham Elementary School in Buckley, Washington, where I went to 2nd and half of 3rd grade, I remember one of the places this transplant was given temporary sanctuary. In a third-grade classroom on the ground floor, an elderly woman named Mrs. Freeman taught; she wove her silver hair into a crown every day, and her role as a teacher was second only to her role as a healer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was Mrs. Freeman to whom I entrusted my first painstakingly handwritten story, “How the John Rabbit Family Lived in the Tall Grass,” with its tale of bunny love found, family formed, babies born, the awful hunting season that laid waste to it all – and the strange resilience of Mr. Rabbit to start again, with a new family, only to face the same threat. Perhaps it was the happy ending I tacked on; a little girl saves the rabbits by taking them in as pets. Perhaps Mrs. Freeman knew a writer trembled before her, too shy to speak in class but crying out for an audience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Whatever her reasoning, Mrs. Freeman gathered our small class around her chair, and read my story out loud. A rare ray of sun streamed in the narrow window beside us, dust motes alive on that solar highway. A soft braided rug beneath us held the circle of suspense as she read each page with a storyteller’s skill. I was as entranced as my classmates at this presentation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Somehow, having this beloved woman read my words out loud gave them authority, enchantment, power. I was seven years old. I had already been raped. I had told no one. We still lived in the same trailer park as the predator stalking me and other girls my age. Did I say this classroom was a sanctuary? It was nothing less than salvation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wickersham Elementary was an ancient dark red brick mammoth of a building, leftover from the Buckley's logging heyday; the worn stone plaque by the massive double wooden doors was engraved with the date “1914.” Inside, the interior was haunted by those long-gone pines cut and stained dark, shaped into polished wood floors, a sweeping staircase with curved bannister to the upper floors, heavy doors with wavy glass windows for each classroom, tall wainscoting, solid pine trim and window casings. This building had educated generations of children whose fathers were loggers, pioneers, business entrepreneurs. I was often lost in that building, and when I wasn’t, I was afraid of getting lost. In Mrs. Freeman’s room, though, I was safe. I was seen. I was - along with all of my classmates - loved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wickersham Elementary was built 58 years after, and six miles west of, "the decisive battle of the Indian War fought at Connell's Prairie," according to historical records. I was the only Indigenous student there in 1967-68. Torn down in 1973, about 4 years after I left, the building stood for 59 years on stolen land bloodied by murder, constructed of massacred trees hundreds of years old. Old historical society photos show logs bigger than the trucks hauling; photos that break my heart in ways even my Indigenized English can't speak. But look. There is a tiny seedling in that classroom. A little girl who has been transplanted again and again and again, whose roots keep being pulled up and set down in earth far from her homelands. That seedling is loved in that building. She holds onto her story. That story is the root that can never be severed. That story takes root in the woods and fields of Western Washington. I'm still telling that story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">On the occasion of planning to do a land acknowledgement for Mapuche poet Liliana Ancalao's reading, I thought back to the ongoing debate over the value of this effort. Why a land acknowledgment? Does it
really accomplish anything? Isn’t it just another meaningless, empty gesture
that makes non-native folks feel as if they have checked a box that ensures their
comfort? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I was reminded of the video short <a href="https://www.facebook.com/baronessvonsketchshow/videos/1374822062672579/">“Land
Acknowledgment” by Baroness von Sketch Show,</a> in which a white woman
attempts to do a “recite and run” gesture toward Indigenous presence before a
live show. Though she thanks the local Indigenous peoples by name, and even
pronounces their tribal names without stumbling, she clearly views the
statement as required cover-your-ass, trendy but not actionable boilerplate. A
woman in the audience stands, however, and asks, “Isn't there something we
should do? Should we leave, if we’re on someone else’s land? Or are part of the
tickets sales or refreshments going to support Indigenous nations?” In short,
the audience member takes the land acknowledgment as serious and important
information that requires a thoughtful response, and some kind of action or
reparation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">And in the video, that’s hilarious. Who takes a land acknowledgment seriously?!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This video story tells us that a land acknowledgment, in and of
itself, is not enough. It is not enough to simply <i>give</i> it, and it is not
enough to simply <i>listen</i> to it. To make a land acknowledgement truly
powerful requires that we internalize the story to which it alludes: a story
about sovereignty, colonization, decolonization, and truth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Human beings are made of stories. Laguna pueblo writer Leslie
Marmon Silko says, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They aren't just for entertainment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Don't be fooled</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">They are all we have, you see,</span></span></div>
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if you don't have the stories.</div>
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[The destroyers’] evil is mighty</div>
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but it can't stand up to our stories.</div>
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So they try to destroy the stories</div>
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let the stories be confused or forgotten –</div>
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They would like that.</div>
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They would be happy.</div>
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Because we would be defenseless then.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">What happens when we forget the stories of Indigenous peoples?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">What happens to Indigenous peoples when the dominant culture
erases their stories? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">What happens when United States citizens do not learn the story
that Indigenous peoples had long existed here on these lands prior to contact
with Europeans for many, many thousands of years –20,000 according to Western
science, since time immemorial in Indigenous traditions? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">What happens to the settler-colonial story of “civilizing” the
wilderness when we remember that pre-contact Indigenous people possessed all
the so-called hallmarks of civilization (language, religion, science, governance,
the arts, cities and villages)? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Or when we forget the story that Indigenous peoples gave aid to
early European travelers in need on all of our shores – east coast, west coast,
Gulf coast, the interior - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>preventing those
travelers from succumbing to the elements for which they arrived unprepared,
because to us, every life was sacred and hospitality was one of the
responsibilities of being human? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">What happens when we bury the story that the majority of those
same travelers murdered Indigenous peoples in waves of increasing violence, forced
(rather than offered) a new religion on us; what happens when no one hears the
story that we fought back and resisted across every inch of this continent and
were cheated, lied to, stolen from, massacred by U.S. military troops?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">What happens when we silence the story that education came to
Indigenous peoples not as a path to freedom, but because some government
official did the math and discovered it was cheaper to educate an Indian child
than to kill her? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">What happens when we don’t know that Indigenous peoples in this
country have gone from 100% of the population to one percent of the total
population, yet we have the highest rates of suicide, substance abuse,
incarceration, violent assaults and sexual assaults by the dominant culture? the
lowest rates of high school graduation? the lowest enrollment in higher ed? the
lowest economic status? the lowest life expectancy? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">“This is the country where children learn names like
Wyatt Earp, Davy Crockett, and Annie Oakley. This is the place where the
pilgrims landed at Plymouth and where Texas patriots made their last stand at
the Alamo. The American nation was carved out of the vast frontier by the
toughest, strongest, fiercest, and most determined men and women ever to walk
the face of the Earth. Our ancestors braved the unknown, tamed the wilderness,
and sett<span class="textexposedshow">led the Wild West.” – President Donald
Trump, State of the Union address, February 2020.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">But this is <i>not</i> the story of the Americas. It
is a story of intentional amnesia, of greed, of the need to erase Indigenous
peoples, enslaved Africans and African Americans, Chinese, Mexican, and other
immigrants, whose exploited labor and suffering either physically performed or
enabled the vast majority of <i>clearing, carving, fighting, taming and settling.</i>
It is a story that claims all of the bravery and determination of one side, and
none of the bravery and determination of another. It is a story that has been
weaponized, yet, like a boomerang thrown by one who doesn't understand the power of that instrument, will ultimately circle back and attack the unwary
hand that set it into motion. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This is a story that aspires to epic, and yet, only by
telling the more complicated, full story, would truly <i>be </i>heroic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this all matters because, as Audre Lorde
and Joy Harjo remind us, we were never meant to survive –<i> and we did.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">For all of these reasons, then, a land
acknowledgment serves as a mnemonic device for listeners: a reminder of what colonization (and missionization) have done to damage the very alive Indigenous human beings still struggling with the after-effects of what was an invasion of Indigenous homelands for the purposes of seizing land and the natural resources of that land. Inserting reminders into the land acknowledgment of past and current struggles - for example, citing Wounded Knee as well as Standing Rock or Mauna Kea - and suggesting ways to self-educate and/or work as an ally, enliven the land acknowledgment. When the land acknowledgement has become part of an institution's protocol (which has not happened at my university), those examples should be changed up frequently - to avoid oversaturation, and to keep the campus community updated on Indigenous issues.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Today we acknowledge the Monacan Nation, traditional caretakers
whose cultures and customs have nurtured, and continue to nurture, this land,
since time immemorial. We honor the presence of Indigenous Ancestors whose work
enables us to live here today, and benefit from the harvests, waters, and
beauty all around us. We acknowledge the responsibilities we bear to care for
our Mother, whose Spirit is creation and sustenance, memory and story, in all
her many forms, in all her acts of transformation. </i>We honor our Indigenous relatives currently working to protect our planet's water, sacred spaces such as Mauna Kea, and environmental justice for all.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Nimasianexelpasaleki </i>to Liliana for her visit here
this week. I give these words to you with
love from your sisters and brothers on Turtle Island. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lauren's work has been awarded many honors, most recently, the Phillip Freund
Alumni Prize for Excellence in Publishing from Cornell University
(2017), the Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press (2017), the Split
This Rock Poetry Prize (2016), the Picador Guest Professorship in
Literature at the University of Leipzig, Germany (2015), and an Iowa
Arts Council Fellowship (2014). In 2015, the journal <em>IthacaLit</em> named its annual prize the <a href="http://ithacalit.com/guidelines.html#.VieOcBC" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Lauren K. Alleyne/Difficult Fruit Poetry Prize</a>.</span></span><br />
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currently resides in Virginia, USA, where she is an Associate Professor
of English at James Madison University, Assistant Director of the
Furious Flower Poetry Center and Editor-in-Chief of <a href="https://fightandfiddle.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Fight & The Fiddle</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of my favorite poems from Lauren's reading last night was "<a href="https://poets.org/poem/variations-blue" target="_blank">Variations in Blue</a><i><a href="https://poets.org/poem/variations-blue" target="_blank">,"</a> </i>- a poem about a kind of freedom or privilege we don't think about very often. <i> </i> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">3. Now think of a memory or story of yours that is <i>unrelated </i>to that place.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">4. Ask a question to the you (or subject or object) from the 1st place you thought of.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Up in the Tehachapi Mountains</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the dry earth is home</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">to ants, gophers, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">gila monsters. Once,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">at my Aunt Sally's </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">house, I sat down</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">beside a black widow,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">her geometric warning</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">bright as a glass bead.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What is it about the color red</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">that looks so pretty</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">to a four-year-old-child</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">who hasn't seen her parents</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">in a year? Perhaps the memory</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">of her mother's favorite</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">lipstick, skillfully applied -</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">a ruby promise left behind </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">on her cheek.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Deborah A. Miranda </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">THANK YOU, LAUREN!</span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4157521054386461586.post-11807053491167593742019-10-12T10:42:00.000-04:002019-10-12T13:24:41.953-04:00"Living Poets Society" Drops!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last weekend I walked into my favorite writing café, Pronto, to find two of my students seated at a
table across from one another, earphones on, intent on their screens. They’re both excellent scholars and poets,
and I had a brief moment of compassion that they were spending their weekend
sweating over some assignment. But hey, at least they were here at Pronto,
studying in solidarity.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Professor Miranda!” Joëlle and makayla called me over to their table, faces illuminated with joy. No, it
wasn’t because they saw me – it was what they were working on. “We’re editing
our first podcast!! It’s called <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-922975013/e1-lps-debut" target="_blank"><i>Living Poets Society</i></a> and we’re having <i>too
much fun</i>.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I didn’t know it was possible, but these two just went up
several <i>more</i> notches on my respect meter. A podcast?! When did they have
<i>time</i>? One woman is a single mom of a 2-year-old (at a university where that’s
rarer than hen’s teeth), and both are seriously engaged in senior projects and
full-time classes and trying to get by. Both have taken several classes with
me, and are in my current advanced poetry workshop.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We talked a little, and I asked for the link when the podcast
dropped. I’d just mentioned to someone else about how the time for listening to
podcasts has faded now that I live so close to work that my commute is a 10-minute
walk or a 5-minute drive. But <i>this</i> podcast? This one, I’d make time for.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was not disappointed. The link appeared in my inbox
yesterday. I waited until this morning to listen. What. A. Treat. to eavesdrop
on the thoughts and talents of Joëlle and makayla! This conversation is
everything: manifesto, vulnerability, motherhood, sexual joy, ars poetica,
black hair, eyebrows, softboys, and love. I mean, who talks about love anymore
and means companionship, tenderness, sexual compatibility? These two women do.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ya’ll should take a listen to <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-922975013/e1-lps-debut" target="_blank"><i>Living Poets Society</i></a>. You might learn something you didn't know. You
will <i>definitely</i> learn something about being alive, 20-something, black, woman, poet,
in a small private PWI in the un-fucking-believable year that is 2019. [p.s. the <a href="https://automatareview.com/why-i-write-stephen-graham-jones" target="_blank">"Why I Write"</a> piece that makayla refers to hearing in class is from Stephen Graham Jones. Sadly, a video of Jones reading this manifesto with a delightfully manic, feral, delicious gleam in his eye has since been removed from the internet. We can only hope it returns one day.]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can't wait for the next episode.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Excerpt from <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-922975013/e1-lps-debut" target="_blank"><i>Living Poets Society:</i></a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“…What is your favorite hair style? <i>Black.</i> Black
hairstyle.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Black. Cuz we’re black, black, blackity black black black unashamedly
black unapologetically black, we don’t care, k?”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Black and multi-faceted.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Yes...We contain multitudes.” [whispered]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“WE CONTAIN MULTITUDES.” [chanted]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dr. Karenne Wood, Monacan poet and scholar, walked on not long ago, taking with her a large piece of my heart. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I arrived in Virginia 16 years ago, Karenne welcomed me to her homeland, offering her hospitality with open hands. Over the years we knew one another, Karenne Wood became a necessary and cherished part of my life. She visited my Native American Literature classes at Washington and Lee University (and gave readings) multiple times, was always available to confer with about Indigenous poetry and politics, invited me to read with her (and accepted invitations to read with me at conferences or community gatherings), celebrated our writing accomplishments, and commiserated over our frustrations with academia. We exchanged poem drafts and teaching strategies, dog stories, kid stories, and encouragment for the long haul. Karenne befriended my wife, Margo Solod, and always asked after her when we checked in over email or messaging. Karenne's own health - a 20 year battle against various kinds of cancer - was something she was more reluctant to discuss, but which she took very seriously. She knew how quickly everything could change; how luscious each and every day was, and therefore, how to celebrate life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When renowned poet (and now Poet Laureate of the United States) Joy Harjo came to read at my university in February of 2019, of course I asked Karenne to come welcome Joy to Monacan land. Karenne replied that she had been working on a land acknowledgment protocol with U of Virginia, and that "I am happy that people want to hear our language and acknowledge our presence. If you want me to do the prayer before Joy’s talk, I am willing. It’s brief. As for a gift, I thought of a honeysuckle basket with a lid, made by our tribal elder Bertie Branham." I didn't realize until the day of the event that Karenne would be coming from Charlottesville after another radiation treatment, or that speaking was difficult for her. That night, she shone. Her love for Joy Harjo, and a natural gracious, generous energy carried Karenne through the reading, and dinner afterwards. That was Karenne - always a giver.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In short, Karenne was a beautiful human being whose joyful presence in my life eased some of the loneliness I experience as the only Indigenous professor at my university, and taught me much about living in the moment. I will miss her deeply. At her Celebration of Life service, over 200 people came to hear stories about her life from her two daughters, tribal members, and friends. I guarantee you, Karenne was beloved by every single one of them, and many many more who could not attend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I know I am not alone in my grief, or in feeling blessed by knowing Karenne Wood. In that spirit, I offer this poem, which came to me early this morning.</span><br />
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hold each year –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Deborah A. Miranda</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Karenne's obituary from the <a href="https://poets.org/poet/karenne-wood" target="_blank">Academy of America Poets,</a> where some of her poetry is posted:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">1960–2019</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Karenne Wood was born on May 31, 1960. She received an MFA from George Mason University and a PhD in linguistic anthropology from the University of Virginia.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She was the author of the poetry collections <i>Weaving the Boundary</i> (University of Arizona Press, 2016) and <i>Markings on Earth</i> (University of Arizona Press, 2001), winner of the Diane Decorah Award for Poetry from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Of her work, the poet Heid E. Erdrich writes, “These poems move us through indigenous history to reveal our presence today—in an act of resistance and revelation and faith.” An enrolled member of the Monacan Indian Nation, Wood directed the Virginia Indian Programs at the Virginia Center for the Humanities. She formerly served as a repatriation director for the Association on American Indian Affairs, the chair of the Virginia Council on Indians, and a member of the National Congress of American Indians’ Repatriation Commission.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2002 Wood was named the Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year, and in 2015 she was named one of Virginia’s Women in History by the Library of Virginia. She also received the 2009 Schwartz Prize from the Federation of State Humanities Programs. Wood died on July 21, 2019.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some of my favorite pictures with Karenne, at readings or gatherings... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After Joy Harjo's reading and talk at Washington & Lee University, this past February.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With Mojave poet Natalie Diaz at Washington & Lee University.</span></div>
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Omelas. Do you know the story? The story of a magical, beautiful society in
which everything the people have that is good depends on keeping an innocent
child caged, abused, neglected? Ursula K. Le Guin writes,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">"In a basement
under one of the beautiful public buildings of Omelas, or perhaps in the cellar
of one of its spacious private homes, there is a room. It has one locked door,
and no window. A little light seeps in dustily between cracks in the boards,
secondhand from a cobwebbed window somewhere across the cellar…The floor is
dirt, a little damp to the touch, as cellar dirt usually is. The room is about
three paces long and two wide: a mere broom closet or disused tool room.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">Le Guin calls it “a
room,” but we soon learn that this is a cage. An enclosure to keep a living
thing from obtaining their freedom; an indictment from one in power about the intrinsic
value of one lacking empowerment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">“In the room,” she
continues, “a child is sitting. It could be a boy or a girl. It looks about
six, but actually is nearly ten ... it sits hunched in the corner … and the
door is locked; and nobody will come. The door is always locked; and nobody
ever comes, except that sometimes—the child has no understanding of time or
interval—sometimes the door rattles terribly and opens, and a person, or
several people, are there. One of them may come in and kick the child to make
it stand up. The others never come close, but peer in at it with frightened,
disgusted eyes.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who are these people, the ones who come to
glance furtively, guiltily, with such repulsion? They are the people of
Omelas, who by custom or law, must witness the child’s conditions with their
own eyes at least once in their lifetime. Admirable, in its own way, this act –
at least citizens are fully informed, required to have knowledge of the horror
beneath the surface. Le Guin notes that without exception, these witnesses –
usually young people – are horrified, and want to rescue the child. Of course, Le
Guin says, “</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">… that would be a good thing, indeed; but if it were done,
in that day and hour all the prosperity and beauty and delight of Omelas would
wither and be destroyed. Those are the terms. To exchange all the goodness and
grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away
the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one … The terms
are strict and absolute; there may not even be a kind word spoken to the child.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">Yes: Omelas is a utopia
built on top of the question <i>why</i>, which must never be asked.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">Le Guin does not
sugar-coat the realities of the caged child’s life. “The food bowl and the
water jug are hastily filled, the door is locked, the eyes disappear. The
people at the door never say anything, but the child, who has not always lived
in the tool room, and can remember sunlight and its mother's voice, sometimes
speaks. ‘I will be good,’ it says. ‘Please let me out. I will be good!’ They
never answer. The child … is so thin there are no calves to its legs; its belly
protrudes; it lives on a half-bowl of corn meal and grease a day. It is naked.
Its buttocks and thighs are a mass of festered sores, as it sits in its own
excrement continually." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">Ursula K. Le Guin died
just 18 months ago, in January 2018. I want to think she was somehow spared the
daily news of children's faces inside cages even within the boundaries of her
beloved California, verified reports such as this one from the New York Times: “Children
as young as 7 and 8, many of them wearing clothes caked with snot and tears,
are caring for infants they’ve just met, the lawyers said. Toddlers without
diapers are relieving themselves in their pants.” I <i>want</i> to think Le
Guin was spared these images and reports – but I understand that she saw this
story coming years ago, in all its different manifestations. Indeed – Omelas has
existed, exists, in so many places, in so many times, that we almost don’t know
anything else is possible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">Le Guin’s story reminds us that it is a
choice, you see. A choice to know the child in the cage suffers; a choice to
allow, by doing nothing, the child's suffering to continue. The child is
"it," not a person. That makes the knowing easier for the people of
Omelas. That makes it easier to be a citizen of a land dependent on the pain of
innocents. I can even imagine kind-hearted Omelasians traveling to other lands
on missions of mercy, as saviors for the poor children of other nations –
building hospitals and schools for children trapped in poverty, donating
clothing to victims of war or famine or natural disaster. That would be
allowed. That would not disrupt Omelas itself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">But sometimes … sometimes, Le Guin writes, a
person comes to see the child and cannot make peace with this truth. Those
people wrestle with their souls. They cannot make the choice to save the caged
child – thus shredding the entire fabric of their country - but they also
cannot continue to benefit from that child’s torture, either. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Those are the ones, Le Guin says, “who walk
away from Omelas.” Instead of going home to comfort, family, job and willed ignorance, “</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">…they walk ahead into the darkness,
and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less
imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at
all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they
are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">Even though Le Guin warns that what lies beyond Omelas is unimaginable, I’ve tried to imagine it.
Even though she tells us each person goes alone, I’ve hoped for a kind of
solidarity between individuals who cannot accept the terms of this social
contract.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And even though she says the
ones who walk away never return to Omelas, I wonder. I wonder what would happen
if those who walk away from Omelas return to their country together, pooling all that they have learned on their journey, willing
to ask the ‘why’ of it all: Why must even the mere <i>chance </i>of one child’s
happiness cause the loss of an entire society’s privileges? Why is this gross
imbalance of power misrepresented as balance? Who made up that rule? Who
decides that change is destructive, rather than creative? And why does everyone
in Omelas believe this "fact," swallow this premise hook, line and
sinker? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">I imagine, in my
wildest dreams, citizens willing to face their darkest fears, willing to accept
that change might not result in catastrophe, but something even more valuable:
self-respect. Humanity. I imagine citizens willing to pay the price for such a prize.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">I imagine that returning
to Omelas <i>would</i> destroy Omelas as it currently exists; Omelas would no longer <i>be</i> Omelas. It
would be something else. Not utopian, not idyllic. Not the Omelasian Dream. I
don’t know what we would name it. I don’t know if it has ever truly existed before - though I must say a few groups, both "civilized" and "primitive" - have made the attempt. I
don’t know if Le Guin’s narrative ends on a hopeful or doomed note. Must we
invent an entirely new world? Is nothing in this one salvageable? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">Yes, I struggle with questions about
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at the age of “57” (actually, 59), Estefana Real married a man named Ricardo Preciado, who is listed on the marriage record as 30 years old. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had married a man named Mendoza, and had many children with him (and some by other men). Next she is married to Juan Acedo, with whom she had the <a href="https://www.academia.edu/33994446/Extermination_of_the_Joyas_Gendercide_in_Spanish_California" target="_blank">“joto”Victor Acedo</a>. At some point, she married Joaquin Gutierrez, a Chileño, perhaps
in hopes that marriage to a “European” would help her hold onto El
Potrero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I find she married Preciado
late in life; although divorce was practically unheard of, and certainly not available to the poor, serial bigamy was common in California in the early days – not just
between Indians, but Euro-Americans as well, many of whom found the lack of
organized record-keeping convenient. Despite the Roman Catholic Church’s extensive
written marriage records, still another RC priest presided over Estefana’s third
(and last?) bigamist event – Father Michael Rocca. Ironically, this kind of easy
marriage/remarriage, common in pre-contact tribes of the area, was one of the key factors the missionaries cited as evidence
that Indians needed civilization lessons; it "proved" that colonization
and missionization were not just necessary for Indians, but an ethical imperative for Euro-Americans!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of Estefana’s life (he’s already an interesting marker of her resilience,
perseverance, and ingenuity), I searched for him in the archives. He seems to
have registered to vote in Monterey, but the dates are wide there – 1867-1898.
He has a mark next to his name that translates to “[naturalized] by treaty with
Mexico,” so perhaps Estefana was not a citizenship marriage. I mention the possibility because it's difficult to imagine what benefit a <i>legal</i> marriage would give either party in a time and place where common-law relationships were quite widespread, and which Estefana, at least, had already experienced.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Like most Indian women of this time period, I’m certain
Estefana married for reasons of survival rather than romance; romance was for
the very young, and a brief, if that, privilege. Once a woman had a child, she
was at the mercy of any man who would help her support that child; as an older
woman, at nearly 60 years old, Estefana was past child-bearing age, and had
shed her many children (some of them were raised by other women, relatives or families
who took a child in as a servant – such was Victor Acedo’s case). But while she
was finished raising a family, now she had to look after her own, elderly,
self. What did she have to offer a 30-year-old man from Mexico? Perhaps
citizenship in exchange for a cash payment, or bartered items? Perhaps she’d
hung onto some money left over from her time at <a href="http://whenturtlesfly.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-land-was-lost-el-potrero.html?spref=bl" target="_blank">El Potrero</a>? Shared housing? </span><br />
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Preciado. This seems to imply that Preciado was not a significant relationship
for Estefana; although it’s true that Isabel was only 28 at the time of Estefana’s
marriage to Preciado, Isabel had much knowledge about Estefana’s other, earlier
partnerships. Why didn’t Isabel remember this one?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the only record he left behind. Even his death is hard to locate. This <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">could</i> be him – it’s in the general geographical
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those sad mysteries: a human being whose life came and went, without leaving
more than a name on an odd marriage record, voting registration of an indeterminate year, and a “maybe” death record. He was born in Mexico, around
1838, but there are no baptismal records that I can find; he came from nowhere, and went nowhere. All I know is that he married my 4x great-aunt, who was twice his age. Was he kind? Was he cruel? Did he leave behind loved ones in Mexico? What state was he from? Did he speak English, Spanish, an Indigenous language? Who loved him? Whom did he love? <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What happened to him?</i> </span></div>
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part of the crumbling past now, his flesh fed on by darkness and roots, time
and the many-legged creatures of the earth’s remaking. A small blessing on your
soul, Ricardo. I don’t know you well enough to remember you, or memorialize you, but I see
you. I see you.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, due to a combination of cross-country travel, memory issues and various other little gremlins, I not only missed the AWP panel for anthology authors, but also the reading later in the afternoon. There are no words for the horror that I felt when I realized this mistake. A month later, I'm still feeling it. 😱</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Still, we live in a time when people can be in two places at the same time, right? We have Skype and Face Time and all the other fun things give us powers we never would have dreamed of just a ten or twenty years ago. So I've decided to do a bit of time-traveling, and go back to do the job right.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I know. It's not quite the same thing. There's something very special about the energy created when writers and an audience come together to share literature. Energy is generated, too, by the encounter. But I also want to give something back to the organizers of the AWP events, to the co-panelists and readers who were left in the lurch, and to the anthology itself, which deserves more PR.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Along with my video, I'd like to throw out a challenge to other <i>Native Voices </i>authors - post a video of yourself reading from the book! Maybe we can even get a Youtube channel dedicated to a collection of such videos??</b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A word about the book's focus: this is not only a collection of Indigenous poetry, but a conversation about <i>craft.</i> Specifically, each participant was given the task of identifying another author - Native or non-Native - whose own work had influenced our own. We each chose one poem from that author, along with a few of our own that seemed to resonate with that inspiration, and then wrote an accompanying essay, a kind of conversation with that poet and their work, and our work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Native Voices</i> is really the first of its kind of Native writers, and the results are stunning. Reading each author's section is like having that writer all to yourself for a stimulating discussion of Native writing, our perspectives, what we love, who our heroes are, why we write, how we strive to be better, and most of all, the generosity of other writers in our lives.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Want to whet your appetite? Just browse this <a href="https://www.spdbooks.org/Content/Site106/FilesSamples/9781946482181.pdf" target="_blank">table of contents!</a> Folks, it's <i>seven. pages. long. </i>The book blurb lists just a few: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is a massive undertaking, and editors CMarie Fuhrman and Dean Rader have created a text that raises the bar on anthologies in general, let alone anthologies that provide context and craft behind Indigenous literatures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Okay. Without any more ado, here is my contribution (click video link below the photo at the end of this blog). I didn't read all my poems (leaving something for readers to find) but I did talk a little about my essay describing my encounter with Wendy Rose's poem, "Excavation at Santa Barbara Mission," -- an encounter that I still carry with me (thank you, Wendy! 💕). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hope you enjoy my apology, and this anthology.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dear journalists phoning and emailing for comments: Please consider this my official statement on Nathan Phillips and the Covington Catholic High School male students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’m sorry, I teach all day and don’t have time
for a live interview.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can say, however, that after careful viewing
of all the videos currently online that show the encounter between Phillips,
the Black Israelites, and the mostly-white Catholic high school students there for a "Pro-Life March" (if you need my thoughts on <i>that, </i>please read <a href="https://www.readingistherapy.com/ursula-le-guin-on-abortion/" target="_blank">Ursula K. Le Guin's brilliant essay</a>), this
is what I’m thinking: the only adult human in those videos is Nathan Phillips. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A friend once told me, when a situation is
chaotic, and language is confusing, look at the basics: actions. Who is doing
what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Looking at those videos, I see four Black
Israelites insulting both what appears to be about 30 Catholic students and the
small group of 3-5 Indigenous people/allies. Then I see the Catholic students crowding
around an elderly Indian man in street clothes and glasses, who is beating a
hand drum and vocalizing song or his own language (both, probably). I see the
Catholic students jumping up and down, some doing the Tomahawk-Chop from a pro
football team, one boy stripping off his shirt and doing some kind of dance
(later I heard these are school spirit chants), others “singing along” without
knowing what they were singing, while doing the Tomahawk-chop, clapping to the
beat of the drum, asking each other “what is going on?” and making a lot of
loud noises that are obnoxious, rather than afraid (shouts, screams, chants).
At one point, I see two blond women also dancing and chopping with the students –
since this is a boy’s group, and the women are older, it seems likely that they are parent chaperones or teachers. Another video shows a glimpse of a man with a priest’s collar
in the back, observing. I see that the young man in the MAGA hat who engages
Phillips with his gaze has plenty of room to move back or sideways. I see that
Phillips could turn and walk away. I see that he has a handful of supporters –
maybe four.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What I don’t see? I don’t see any frightened
children. I don’t see any children crying, running away, shielding themselves
from threats, or acting fearful for their well-being. Instead, they appear to
be crowding closer to Phillips – curious yet clueless. I see the beginning of a
mob. What I see is a juvenile version of a Donald Trump rally in which
protestors or even allies of a different color are heckled or kicked out of the
auditorium.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is how it always starts. This is why Native Americans are concerned about being told, "You started it."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here is what I also see: that the children in
these videos have absolutely <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no true
representations of Native Americans in their heads to prepare them in any way
for this moment</i>. They possess no point of reference for what an Indian
person is, other than howling stereotypes from Westerns, Indian sports mascots,
bloody video games, and outdated novels or textbooks. They probably have never met
an Indigenous person, let along spoken to one, or heard Indigenous music or
prayers sung.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps to these students,
“Indian” means mascot, casino, vanishing, savage. Their “responses” strike me
as that of very young, confused children -- but minus any respect a child
typically gives adults. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Strangely, I am reminded of the ways Europeans
responded to Indigenous peoples at first contact – unable to image the Other as
a human being with language, religion, feelings, intentions, or dignity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so, like early Catholics in the “New
World,” the school children impose their own standards on Phillips, and in
their wild gesticulations, find the Indian man to be laughable, suitable for
mocking. This is certainly the framework with which Spanish Catholic explorers,
priests and soldiers responded to meeting my ancestors, the Esselen and Chumash
peoples who were missionized in Southern California from 1769-1835. The
Spaniards were absolutely certain that their worldview and belief systems were
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">only way</i> with which to live in
the world, and left no room left for negotiation or conversation. What followed
was a brutal attempt to literally beat “bad” Indians into good Catholic
laborers and servants, and a drop in Indigenous population in what we currently
call California – from over one million people at first contact in 1769 to less
than 20,000 people by 1900. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In short, I see a group of children who have
been failed by their educators, their parents, and their role models. Because
unlike the original “First Encounters” in North America, these children – in
2019 – don’t have the (questionable) excuse of ignorance. Evidently, their
parents and teachers were never educated in the history of Indigenous peoples,
on whose land they stood, either. Evidently, they too never learned the
etiquette of engaging with someone whose looks, language, religion, or
worldview are different than theirs – let alone consider that these differences
may actually be just as valuable as their own. I say “evidently,” because the
evidence in these videos – all of them – should cause the parents and educators
of these children to wince in shame. Instead, I see the young man who locked
gazes with Phillips release a statement saying, “<span style="background: white; color: #333333;">perhaps a group of adults was trying to provoke
a group of teenagers into a larger conflict." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That
student is a young male, white, a member of the dominant culture in this
country (and a culture that has long been dominant, a culture which has
historically enslaved some, appropriated the land of others, and required laws
passed in order to extend human rights) and goes to a private school with a
steep tuition. Phillips is male, Indian in a country where the dominant culture
has historically mistreated Indians – please look up Indian Boarding Schools –
elderly, and physically frail. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If
that student felt threatened, we all need to ask ourselves why that delusion
seems to be stuck in his head – and in the heads of the so-called adults
raising him. Because it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is </i>a delusion.
It <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> inexcusably ignorant. And I
will give the young man’s school and parents that much credit – he is far too smart
not to know that.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Date(s)</strong>: Thursday, February 21, 2019, 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></strong>Location: </strong>Piper Writers House, 450 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281 (<a href="http://piper.asu.edu/conference/travel" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(163, 0, 70); box-sizing: border-box; color: #a30046; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out 0s;">view map</a>)<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Type(s): </strong>Advanced Workshop, Generative Workshop, Workshop<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Genre and Form(s): </strong>Poetry<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tags: </strong>Revision, Beauty, Grief, Climate Change, Politics, Healing</div>
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How do we summon creative power in the face of our personal and/or global demons? How can we speak of beauty when our world seems full of loss, grief, climate change, and political turmoil? Thich Nhat Hanh says that the work of meditation is to transform “compost into flowers”; that is also the work of poetry. This generative workshop will help you to re-see your demons as a form of poetic compost. Writing poetry is a way for us to name, explore and re-shape our demons and use them to grow something beautiful, powerful, and healing. Through in-class writing exercises, reading and discussing sample poems, as well as the plain old blood, sweat and tears of revision, this workshop is structured to inspire as well as provide you with new tools to continue the work on your own afterwards. Please bring your favorite writing materials.</div>
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This session will demonstrate ways to create richly layered memoir via multiple genres and visual storytelling. Our lives and those of our ancestors leave traces in the human archive that include much more than photographs. Documents like immigration records, religious institutions, letters, newspaper clippings, government forms, song lyrics, even fingerprints, prison records, school assignments, local histories or ethnographic notes—can all be “mined” for creative inspiration, expanding and enriching the narrative of your family.</div>
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Deborah A. Miranda is an enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen. Her mixed-genre book<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir</em>, received the PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, a Gold Medal from the Independent Publishers Association, and was short-listed for the William Saroyan Literary Award. Her most recent poetry collection is <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Raised by Humans</em>; previous collections include <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Zen of La Llorona</em> and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Indian Cartography</em>. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Altar for Broken Things</em>, a new poetry collection, will be published in 2019 from BkMk Press. Miranda is Professor of English at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia where she teaches literature and creative writing.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><a href="https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/traumatic-history-of-isolated-tribe-who-killed-american-missionary/news-story/75120b92130bcea44642156bffd60059?fbclid=IwAR31sL7jl2mfGZH5UL433OPV7AeJ28KDZpoZpplzxa1gUSqE7aNzq3ZMHLo" target="_blank">THIS article</a> by Julia Corderoy gives us the real story: not the 'murder' of a 'missionary,' but the anger and self-defensive actions by a traumatized indigenous people he refused to respect. I'm talking about John Chau, a 27-year old United Statesian who basically committed suicide-by-Indigenous people just before Thanksgiving. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">As the article states, </span><span style="color: #262626;">Chau was killed "by the islanders [on North Sentinel Island, in the Bay of Bengal], after he illegally paid fishermen to take him there in a bizarre plan to convert them to Christianity."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #262626;">The Sentinelese (not their own name for themselves) live on this island protected by the country of India; no contact by outsiders is allowed, with boat and air patrols enforcing a 5-mile distance from land. This sovereignty has been enforced in large part after early contact in the late 1890s resulted in the kidnapping of islanders by a curious British naval officer named Maurice Vidal Portman. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #262626;">As Corderoy writes, Portman "took the islanders to a British-run prison on a larger island where he watched the adults grow sick and die." At that point, Portman returned the children to the island - creating who knows what kind of contamination from western illnesses, as well as a handful of traumatized children with a story that must have been of an incomprehensible terror. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #262626;">Corderoy suggests that this incident set the scene for the islander's deep suspicion of outsiders, and it's not hard for me to imagine that initial encounter becoming part of an oral tradition chronicling absolute terror. Eventually, India passed a law protecting the tribespeople, allowing them to continue their way of life as they desired.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #262626;">Chau knew he was breaking that law, but felt he was obeying a higher law -- something missionaries have long claimed to excuse their legal and ethical law-breaking. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">Another sad part of the story is that this man was mixed-race (in <a href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/last-days-john-chau-journal-excerpts-man-desperate-meet-sentinelese-92133" target="_blank">another article</a>, a diary excerpt by Chau claimed he was "an American citizen, part Irish, part Native American and part African and part Chinese and South East Asian"). In other words, Chau came </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">from a family with histories that include earlier colonization by Christian missionaries - the Irish, Native American and African strands, certainly; by adulthood, he was thoroughly indoctrinated in evangelical proselytizing from a childhood and adolescence steeped in an ideology that dictates the inferiority of indigenous spiritual beliefs. He graduated from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a well-known conservative private institution whose vision statement reads in part, "founded in the fires of evangelism and upon the unchanging precepts of the Bible." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">I feel deep pity for a boy whose spiritual leaders not only led him astray and to his death, but who did not, in the least, prepare him for the realities of the world, or human beings from other cultures. Chau wrote in his journal that he attempted to speak to the tribespeople using a few words of Xhosa (an African language) that he'd picked up. The tribespeople laughed at him, he reported with dismay.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">What kind of magical thinking made Chau believe that ANY indigenous language would magically work on ANY indigenous people? For that matter, why did he feel compelled to bring safety pins and scissors as "gifts," or think that yelling "My name is John, I love you and Jesus loves you!" was somehow going to be magically translated into a language the islanders could understand?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">What kind of magical thinking turns the invasion of someone else's land and world as "love"? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">Magical thinking called evangelical Christianity. And by that, I mean every missionizing form of Christianity; I'm hard-core here. As the descendant of peoples who were genocided by Catholicism as well as greed, I don't cut missionization a lot of slack. It sure didn't cut us any.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, those same organizations are calling Chau a Christian martyr. Maybe he is - but not the way they mean it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To me, John Chau is an example of what the trauma of colonization and missionization can do to people, and how that trauma can create spiritual and psychological damage so devastating that, sometimes, we then turn around and do the same to others. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">... which is not to say that I am not enraged by Chau's actions. I'm just enraged for <i>multiply layered </i>reasons. Some of his diary entries reveal such a simplified, narrow worldview that he actually sounds like a brainwashed cult member meeting up with the real world for the first time ever, with no authority figure to filter it for him or protect him from the truth. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“What makes them become this defensive and hostile?” </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">“I felt some fear but mainly was disappointed. They didn’t accept me right away.” </span> </span></blockquote>
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is this island Satan's last stronghold </span><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626;">where none
have heard or even had the chance </span><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626;">to hear your
name?" </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">These comments reveal the shock of someone dealing, for the first time, with autonomous, sovereign, uncolonized human beings. These are the thoughts of an immature, narcissistic person. We often call that privilege. In this case, since it cost him his life, maybe not so much.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">...on the other hand, privilege means being able to live without having to acknowledge other people's equal humanity. I'm not sure Chau figured out that these are people with a rich, complete, traumatized, fiercely beloved culture of their own, even at the very end, when they killed him for his ignorance and worse, his lack of respect for their world, their bodies, and their spirits. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">I'm thinking of the Spanish Franciscan missionaries killed in California during the missionization era. Theirs, too, was a mindset I can only describe as brainwashed. Intelligent men, determined to the point of obsession, who drank the Kool Aid. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That was a choice. That was their choice. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">But the decision to force others to drink that Kool Aid against their wishes?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">For some reason, we call that missionization. Proselytizing. Spreading the Good News. Christians have done it by bribery, coercion, force, violence, deception, on the pretence of 'helping' a culture laid low by colonial violence, and/or psychological and physical torture. And yet, missionaries are still surprised when their intended-neophytes strike back. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">A tragedy in all directions.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(after viewing the painting, “Jesuit Martyr-Saints of North America”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Jesuits do not want to go gentle into their good night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Those wise men stand firm, let the tomahawk take a bite,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">but they’d rather not go gentle into God’s goodnight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pierced with Indian arrows still full feathered in flight,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">they hold up crucifixes to show they’re still in the right<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">See, already they ascend into heaven, a glorious sight<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">already it’s worth it, going so gently into good night.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Brave men far from home, faith your only might <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Let go, let God, above all let baptismal waters flow!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hold up your crucifixes of gold to show you’re in the right <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Forgive us, we’re savages made simply, from clay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">We refused to go into colonization’s good night. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">It's been Pride week on our campus all week - lots of activities, and small rainbow flags planted along the walkways in various places. On Thursday I noticed that a bunch of them had been torn up and thrown onto the ground, some of them into bushes, and the "poles" (plastic straws) ground into the bricks and splintered. Angry, I wrote a short blog about it, and online, challenged faculty and students to repair the damage. The good news? A few people did.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">And a Black man, a Black woman, shot outside a grocery store while a white man is given a pass.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Friday, the KKK came onto our campus and dropped a bunch of their fun flyers, this time including graphics of exactly who is human and who isn't, along with a recruitment offer and contact info for anyone interested.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Today, Pittsburgh. Shabbat services, a baby boy's bris (circumcision), and 11 dead by a hate-filled man with way too much firepower. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">All week I've been coming home wiped out from some bug I've had, and sleeping a lot. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Today I alternated doing laundry, errands, cleaning out closets. I felt like I had to keep moving. Finally I lay down with Margo and we napped. I'd been awake till 3 a.m. the night before, wondering (among other things) how long it would be before we get targeted, personally. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Tomorrow evening there will be a gathering at W&L in support of, well, everyone. I'll go. I'll go for the students who are hurting, and because I know it will do me good to be with other people. But at the same time, the University always does this - a vigil, a gathering, and then - continues the same bizarre traditions that encourage all kinds of bias and violence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">I've never felt safe holding Margo's hand in town, but since we returned from Provincetown this summer, where we reveled in that luxury, we've tried to keep it up whenever we walk together. As lesbians, as a Jew and an Indigenous woman, I've always felt like we have targets on our backs. I'm thinking about whether or not we'll continue trying that, and find myself shaking my head. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Here's the really creepy thing I haven't told anyone. I think I saw those guys, the KKK guys, on campus on Friday. I was walking back from my morning class to Payne Hall, and I saw two men holding plastic baggies with paper inside, walking around Payne. They saw me, and just kept looking up at the roofline and eaves, as if they were studying architecture. I thought maybe they were contractors, there to do some work. Maybe they were. Maybe they had just found the flyers and were trying to figure out where they came from. The flyers (inside ziploc bags with birdseed, to keep them from blowing away), were distributed during the day, during classes. I didn't hear about it until I'd been home a few hours.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Nothing comes without a fight. I know that. Jews, Indians, lgbtq, immigrants. We don't get to quit just because it's hard. We can't not be who we are -- although the stress has driven many to pass as Christian, white, straight. That path comes with its own burdens. I know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">My Literature of Poverty course spent this week reading Stephen Graham Jones' book <i>Mongrels.</i> Jones is Blackfeet, and his genre is horror. <i>Mongrels </i>is an allegorical story about contemporary werewolves, who are Indians, of course. My students are fascinated. They love peeling away the layers of allegory, explaining "this means this, this stands for that." Some of it, you'd have to be Indian to understand; some is clear. My Black and Asian students smile when I explain the scene in which the school janitor looks up, gives the narrator and his aunt "the nod." </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Then my students get to the one unmovable fact that they think cannot be unpacked: the fact that the werewolves can pass as human most of the time, but have the ability - sometimes the <i>need - </i>to transform into something inhuman, something hungry, something untamable. Something with super powers of strength, speed, and the power to slash. The students don't know what to do with that information. They are on the werewolves' side, you see. They are Team Werewolf. But they can't abide or come to terms with this core part of werewolf identity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Most of the time, SGJ's contemporary werewolves only kill humans in self-defence, or because they are starving. Flat-out hunting humans for meat is one of those things they can't do like they did in the old days, the grandpa says. So they hold minimum wage jobs, work under the table, steal social security numbers, live in trailers or their cars, hunt deer and small animals, buy a lot of cheap meat. They move around a lot, because invariably, something goes wrong and they have to flee. Sometimes there are clashes with law enforcement that don't end well for the officer. Sometimes, a werewolf ends up roadkill on a freeway, or just another naked drifter's remains found in a ditch. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">The narrator, a young werewolf boy who has not yet had his first "transformation," says wouldn't it be easier if people just hung a live chicken from their mailbox once a week, so the werewolves could simply scoop them up and be off, rather than having to hunt down domesticated animals, or people? Help us out, he thinks, and then we could be who we are without resorting to stealing and violence in the name of self-defense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">"It's like the world <i>wants </i>us to be monsters," he thinks at one point, "like it won't let us live the way normal citizens do."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">It's that core identity that can't be changed. We cannot <i>not</i> be who we are: Werewolves. Indians. Queers. Jews. And to be clear, who we are is not a curse. The curse is those who hunt us, fear us, see us as zombies, monsters, the manifestation of whatever is actually threatening their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">We must keep repeating that to ourselves. <i>I am not the curse.</i> I have been trying to believe that for a long time. The pressure of self-loathing becomes real when that is what surrounds us day after day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">What do you do when the thing about yourself that you cannot change is the very thing that the world around you hates?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Go mad, I think. For many people, madness; or else a permanent state of rage (and that rage is different from righteous anger, the kind "loaded with information and energy" which Audre Lorde highlights as one of our strengths). Or self-hatred.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">I send my love to all who hurt tonight, all who mourn, all who feel unsafe, frightened, pushed into that corner. Who you are is not wrong. Who you are is not a mistake. We are not monsters. </span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">only light can do that</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">. Hate cannot </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">drive out hate</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">; </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">only love can</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr.</span></b></div>
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anonymous I would look, but I couldn’t find it and I couldn’t find it and I
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</style>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4157521054386461586.post-46693073745099894392018-09-08T20:48:00.001-04:002018-09-09T07:22:58.507-04:00The Archive, Memory and Identity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you know me, you know that I spend a lot of time with my nose in some archive or other, dusty reality or pixelly digital. I am fascinated with the stories found there, the stories NOT found there, and everything in between. While researching and writing <i>Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, </i>I came under the spell of the archive as a potent source of material, story, and justice. I've never been the same.</span><br />
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Yesterday I spent the entire day at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville. I was lucky enough to attend </span><br />
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<a href="https://rarebookschool.org/all-programs/events/amis/" target="_blank">Archives, Memory & Identity: A Public Symposium</a></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">held in the auditorium at the Rare Books School there. My colleague Julie Phillips Brown, an English professor at VMI, has alerted me to this opportunity earlier in the summer, and I could not sign up fast enough. After all, archives/memory/identity are what I DO. And this year, I'm also teaching with the archives in various ways in my creative writing memoir workshop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Suffice it to say, the event was pretty much everything Julie and I could have dreamed of, and more. The lineup of individuals creating and/or using archival materials of every imaginable kind was brilliant. Of course, I have favorite presentations, and the best part of having my own blog is that I get to claim them: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://plateauportal.libraries.wsu.edu/" target="_blank">“The Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal: A Model for Ethical Access to Cultural Heritage” </a><span style="color: #444444;">– </span><span style="color: #444444;">Trevor James Bond (Co-Director, Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation and Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries). This material, and the respectful, thoughtful collaboration between white scholars and Indigenous peoples from the tribes in an area of Washington, Idaho and Oregon who are linked by their relationship with the Columbia River. Because time is tight as the term gets started, I'll cheat and paste in the info from their beautiful website, with some crucial information in bold:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Plateau Peoples' Web Portal is a collaboration between the Spokane Tribe of Indians, the Confederated Tribes Of The Colville Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Coeur d'Alene Tribe of Indians, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, the Nez Perce Tribe, the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation and Native American Programs at Washington State University. This Portal is a gateway to Plateau peoples' cultural materials held in multiple repositories including WSU's Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections, the Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, the National Anthropological Archives and the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution. T<b>he materials in the Portal have been chosen and curated by tribal representatives. Each item has one or more records associated with it as well as added traditional knowledge and cultural narratives to enhance and enrich understanding to many audiences.</b></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found myself profoundly moved by both Trevor Bond's presentation of the project details, and by the voices, faces, and objects found on the website. I rarely cry over an academic presentation, but this was so much more than that: this was a rare, and painstakingly respectful illumination of an archive filled with Indigenous peoples' culture and spirit <i>by those Indigenous peoples, for those Indigenous peoples.</i> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even the home page photograph was chosen by the 8 tribes whose cultures are housed here; they said the photograph of the Columbia River was representative of how that river put them into relationship with one another, and with it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Within this archive, certain materials are not available to the general public (a password protects them; family materials can also be uploaded to the archive but viewed </span><i>only </i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by family)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, while great care is taken to preserve protocols about gender, season, religion and so on.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> An immense collection provides resources for language research, maintenance and education; the mix of historic materials with contemporary Indigenous commentary and critique is a crucial addition that helps erase the old trope of the vanished Indian. Just browsing the site today, I found such a wonderful mix: baskets, videos of elders discussing the Northwest "Fishing Wars," and historical trauma; written documents from government and BIA and church sources; photographs; natural resources, old and new; arts -- and all of this catalogued, searchable, and well-organized. Trevor played <a href="https://plateauportal.libraries.wsu.edu/digital-heritage/root-gathering-bag-6" target="_blank">one video</a> in which a group of Indigenous women talked about an archival basket in their language, only switching to English at the very end; one woman holds, pats, and examines the basket with respectful hands, and observant eyes throughout. This scene brought tears to my eyes; as a whole, Indigenous peoples are separated from the works of our ancestors, and to hold a basket like that, to speak to it like a person, is a moment to be cherished.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPtcFVPSuB_qVVGQ4T3DN5sq9-628wfI82WPZGwu8QInBrO-RVnE1scnD48rsyJCqIcKaiZ0DVVSH68D_HPHCXM_iH2l2jFjqu-BaMoKKDnHfQgFTOB8p5np3M6dwj05bS5kJtItNTlxo/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-09-08+at+8.28.55+PM.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPtcFVPSuB_qVVGQ4T3DN5sq9-628wfI82WPZGwu8QInBrO-RVnE1scnD48rsyJCqIcKaiZ0DVVSH68D_HPHCXM_iH2l2jFjqu-BaMoKKDnHfQgFTOB8p5np3M6dwj05bS5kJtItNTlxo/s640/Screen+Shot+2018-09-08+at+8.28.55+PM.png" width="640" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Perhaps the most important work this portal does is what it UN-does: the voices are those of Indigenous people; the materials are chosen not by white curators and scholars and scientists, but by contemporary Indigenous individuals and communities whose expertise is both acknowledged and implicitly behind every aspect of the archive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please take the time to explore this archive, and guide any young students you might know to it, as well. You will come away inspired by the meticulous archival cooperation and Indigenous presence. In particular, Indigenous protocols and traditional knowledges are present and respected, right down to a privileging of the Native description of a basket over long-held social science descriptions. A small piece of the long, painful history of having our Indigenous sacred objects, or ancestral materials, stolen and withheld from us, and still another dismissive history of being told we can't have them back because "you don't know how to take care of them," are both dismissed with this project. The sovereignty and agency and <i>dignity </i>within this project is palpable, and joyful.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That was just session 1. In Session 2, my favorite was:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Moving Memorials” – María Verónica San Martín (Artist, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program; Booklyn, Inc.)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.mveronicasanmartin.com/" target="_blank">Maria Veronica San Martin </a>is a book artist, a social justice activist, and a visionary. Her bio reads: "<span style="background-color: white;">The subject matter of her work derives from the violence in dictatorship Chile (1973–1990) vis-à-vis the United States and Nazism’s involvement in that violence, addressing memory as a pivotal factor for the understanding of the neoliberal, globalized present." But it is also true that Maria portrays the love, compassion, and determination surrounding the <i>memory </i>of those "</span><span style="background-color: white;">desaparecidos" -- not just by their families, but in the Chilean national historical identity.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are a few photographs of the work she shared with us in a half-hour performance; afterwards we were encouraged to come forward to touch, move, and experience the books ourselves. Maria stated that she feels strongly that the act of remembering is also a physical, tactile act which creates connections between body and mind, thus diversifying and strengthening memory, and making it no long just her memory, or a Chilean national memory, but <i>our </i>memory. As members of a nation that enabled and helped create massacre and torture of innocent people half a world away, our complicity -- as her United Statesian readers -- must be acknowledged, and <i>felt.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #545454;"><span style="background-color: white;">This next book is called "<i>Make the Economy Scream," <span style="color: #545454;">(</span></i></span></span><span style="background-color: white;">President Richard Nixon ordered the CIA to "make the economy scream" in Chile to "prevent Allende from coming to power or to unseat him,"</span><span style="background-color: white;"> paving the way for Pinochet's brutal military coup). The book is housed in a copper box (copper mining being an economic mainstay in Chile) with those words engraved on the lid (very difficult to photograph!). Inside, fragile prints on clear plastic show the faces of </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #545454;">desaparecidos, those "disappeared" and presumed killed by the military regime; these prints are stacked with sheets of vellum between them, and the whole deck is wrapped in a handkerchief printed with some of the phrases used about Chile in secret conversations between the President and then Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The book itself is almost a machine; there are times when Maria simply picked it up and let it fall into a shape of its own, and other times when it seemed to move, roll or collapse into a shape of its own design. The metal "pages" are cold, and lack the warmth or texture of her other books. In addition, the book makes an eerie sound when manipulated; a non-human clicking, clattering, metallic "ting" that is, honestly, creepy and yet fascinating. If you go to her website, linked above, you will see a later version, and be able to watch a video of Maria working with it. She said she came to this design in part because she had reached a point where she lacked the words for such mechanical brutality. The metal pages contain no words, and yet as she continues to manipulate it into shapes (like a swastika, a cross), the metal surface takes on scratches, dents, stains, and other markings. As a kind of puzzle, the pages are both intriguing, and repulsive. I could not bring myself to touch them, though others did. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">into the wet grass of the church: I forget that I’m in my
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. orcas are on the knife's edge of <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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due to a variety of factors: <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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boat strikes, and, most of <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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a depletion of Chinook salmon, <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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main food source.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">bigger than one small being.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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at the very top of the food <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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in the Salish Sea, and if they're <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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if their bodies are so <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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they have to be treated as <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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waste when they die, <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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really wrong with <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #3d3d3d; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">our
ecosystem.”</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her child's body</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">is her voice.</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">She wants us to see<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">what we’ve done.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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-- Deborah Miranda</span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4157521054386461586.post-48759247384183331542018-05-21T20:17:00.001-04:002018-05-21T20:17:53.505-04:00Fourteen Ways of Saying Goodbye<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L to R: Dean of the College Suzanne Parker Keen, Deborah Miranda, Margo Solod. <br />First Martin Luther King Jr. March in Lexington, Virginia. 1/15/2017.</td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Fourteen Ways of Saying Goodbye</span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Like a thunderstorm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">you take charge. Fearless,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">you speak your mind—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">unapologetic as April.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->You move through time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">and space like a magician,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">fountainpen for a wand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->You embrace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">your Inner Mama, flaunt love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">as if a child’s existence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">were some glorious accolade,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">an award made of blood and bone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Because he is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->You hone the art<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">of putting your name<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">right beside the face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">of a Royal, going Total<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Flaming Queen—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">with style and aplomb.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Your motto—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Don’t
Be Stupid!</i>—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">means follow your bliss,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">make it work, find a way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Use your brains to find<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">your heart’s desire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span>In a time when </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">the patriarchy </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"> gave women six weeks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"> from delivery to return</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"> to the classroom, not a day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"> more, you strode </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">into the University </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"> President’s office</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">like a legend, made him see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">the light. “By the way,” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">you footnoted your exit, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">stage right:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">“I’m still bleeding.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Everyone talks the talk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">But it’s you <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">at the first MLK March<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">in Lexington, Virginia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">In the cold. With TV cameras <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">and news reporters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">You walk the walk, decenter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">the discourse with love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">You bring balloons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">You don’t just believe <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">are
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">We’re all a little crispier, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">with expletives straight outta <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Bethlehem, Pennsylvania—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">arrows that pierce legal niceties,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">to a generosity of action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">to walk in the knowledge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">every day, like a spell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">to reach further<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">you re-invent reality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">You are a poet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Suzanne Parker Keen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">on the occasion of Dean Keen's departure to become Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty at Hamilton College. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I want to
dedicate this blog to <a href="http://www.terisasiagatonu.com/about-1/">Terisa
Siagatonu</a>, </span><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">a queer Samoan womyn poet and
activist who read at Split This Rock! on the last afternoon, and who was
the first person during the 2018 festival to acknowledge the Indigenous peoples
on whose land she spoke, and from whom that land was stolen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nimasianexelpasaleki, Terisa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Part I: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Dipped in a salty sea of poetry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Re-baptized in the glory of the poetic word.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">DAY ONE<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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On Thursday morning I went to a workshop titled <strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“Affirm, Ground & Heal, In that Order.” </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">The description read, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i></span></strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A tenet of intergenerational trauma is
silence. This workshop is a reflection on a project to collect and memorialize
cultural and familial history through the storytelling of narrative poetry. The
workshop leader will create and hold safe space for participants to: (1)
understand the impact of daily trauma on each participant; (2) use a fusion of
poetry, storytelling, oral history, and mindfulness to explore emotions such as
anger, abandonment, and violence against our bodies; and (3) reflect on what
the self needs. All of this draws from the tools that exist within and the
generations of black women’s resilience, vulnerability, and power. We will
leave with questions that elicit and transmit cultural and familial memory.
Through selected poems by Gwendolyn Brooks and Cheryl Clarke—as well as
original pieces—the workshop will explore the themes of anger, abandonment, and
violence that are prevalent with black women. This workshop aims to use
“storytelling as a regenerative gendered act of creation.”</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Unfortunately,
Sequoya Hayes, the presenter, had cancelled the workshop, but we didn’t know
that until the room was full.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, in
true Split This Rock! fashion, we proceeded to organize the session ourselves,
with a deep, intensely caring discussion of intergenerational trauma, silence,
and anger. A few quotes from participants:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I
don’t have PTSD. I’m not post-anything. It’s all still happening.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“We
need to talk about pain without it seeming formative. Pain is not all that we
are.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Does
speaking about pain <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not </i>work for some
people? Is it possible that there could be another way to process trauma?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Trauma
is sometimes what’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> happening to
you. Neglect. Touch. Trauma can be the absences in your life.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Because
my family has known so much trauma, a heavy addition to my burden is caring for
family members who are not as self-aware about their own wounds.”</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<em><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">During our free-write, I wrote*:</span><o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Split This Rock
#1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The workshop
promises to teach us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">how to move
through trauma, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">from
affirmation all the long ragged <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">way to healing.
Our bodies come here <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">from Russia,
California, New York, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">from African
and Middle Eastern skies, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">from
colonization and the uncivilized <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">terrain of
European fears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">By the time we
find out <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">that the group
leader has cancelled, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">it’s too late:
we have shared <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">our names with
one another, started <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">stories about
mothers, grandmothers, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">war, rape,
hope, joy. Now we want <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to hear what
comes next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Storytellers,
we gravitate <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">toward the
medicine <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">we need to go
on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(*Throughout this blog, I will use the term 'freewrites' for the work I produced at STR. These were originally hand-written material that have now been revised at least once since that time. I've included them because this writing was an important part of how I experienced STR, and a small measure of the tremendous creativity flowing through the air straight into our bodies.)</span></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From
this workshop, I went on to a panel titled <strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Sister Love: Celebrating
the Letters between Pat Parker and Audre Lorde.<o:p></o:p></span></i></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Presenters Cheryl Clarke, Alexis De Veaux, JP
Howard, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, along with organizer Julie Enszer, taught me
more about Lorde and Parker, and taught it more eloquently, than I learned in any
of my grad school courses.<br />
Description: Pat Parker and Audre Lorde first met in 1969 when Lorde was on a
book tour on the West Coast. Wendy Cadden, a graphic artist and member of the
Women’s Press Collective, introduced the two women. Lorde was thirty-five years
old (born February 18, 1934), and Parker was twenty-five (born January 20,
1944). Recently published, </span></i><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal;">Sister Love: The
Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker, 1974-1989</span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, is the collection of the 26 letters of their extant
correspondence. The letters between Parker and Lorde began in 1974 after
Lorde’s second visit with Parker on the West Coast and continued until Parker’s
death from complications of cancer in 1989. Parker and Lorde write about the
business of poetry, the contours of their lives, cancer, lovers, and travel.
The letters cover the most productive years of their poetic and intellectual
production and provide insight into both poets’ interior worlds, as well as the
larger environment in which they produced their work. This panel will read
selections from the letters and discuss Parker and Lorde’s enduring legacies.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
could not wait to buy this book at the Book Fair on the last day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The discussion about the friendship between
Lorde and Parker was brilliant; I was captivated by the combination of excerpts
and commentary by the panelists. One point that came up over and over again in
this panel was the urgency of preserving, organizing, and digitalizing the
archives of our literary ancestors of color, especially queer ancestors of color.
“Give these amazing thinkers an after-life!” urged Julie Enszer, “Why are they
locked up in archives? Or maybe not even gathered into archives?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
took notes as if my life depended on it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After
a hasty but delicious lunch at nearby Nerds & Nibblers, we were back at the
conference, splitting up according to our interests<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Writing Climate Change:
Environmental Justice & the Power of Storytelling </span></i></strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br />
Presenter: Devi Lockwood<br />
Description: What is climate justice storytelling? What language can we use to
draw people into stories of climate change, rather than pushing them away?
While numerical data is important, it is only part of the story of climate
change. Women and people of color are disproportionately impacted by climate
change. We can use our voices to speak up—and speak out. Poetry can help to
elevate and express human stories that need to be told. In this workshop, we'll
cover basic techniques of deep listening. After a brief intro, we'll break into
pairs to practice listening to each other's stories of lived change. We'll be
creating two poems: one individual story of lived change, and one collaborative
climate change poem composed as a group. Our president might erase swaths of
climate data from government websites, but human stories can be even more
powerful. We'll end with a discussion of the principles of environmental
justice and ways to get involved with environmental activism in your community.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our
seminar room was built to hold about 20.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We packed 35 people in, around the edges of the table, then the edges of
the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no room left by the
time we started.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter how many
people kept coming in, Devi received them with pleasure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We made room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There was never a question of would we let stragglers in – it was more a
question of finding chairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Devi’s
packet of poems included <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH0hp-n9gG8" target="_blank">“Remember,” by Joy Harjo</a>, which I chose to read
aloud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something about the anaphora, the
simplicity (which is anything but simple) of her language in this poem, brings
Harjo’s voice right into my head. We went on, reading poems aloud, commenting
on the language, until Devi gave us this free-writing prompt: choose a writing
partner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tell your partner a story about
water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After you listen, write a few
words from your partner’s story down on index cards, drop them into the big
communal bag provided, and then draw one or two cards out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either write about the words on the cards you
drew, or about your partner’s story.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My
writing partner had told me something I’d never heard from anyone before: she
related the history of her life through the kinds of water she lived near, or
the absence of water in her life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
called it her “Water Journey.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d never
heard someone tell their life story this way before, as if water were the
central character in her life – as it is, actually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So when I began to freewrite, it was that
relationship with water, that personal, vital relationship, that came to the
surface.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">What is your
relationship with water?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Because, you
know, water is your relative,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">your blood,
your kin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has run through <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">your DNA faster
than any genome-mapping<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">geneticist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hell, water <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">created </i>you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Wasn’t she
there when you were born?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Wasn’t she
nearby, a river, a lake, a glacier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">looming like
memory over your mother’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">cries and
labors?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or was water an Ancestor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">already, riding
currents of air in search<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">of a cloud, a
thunderstorm, a gray mist<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">allowing her to
kiss the top of your head?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Tell me about
the ways you learned to love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">water in the
pond behind your family’s barn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">in August, when
heat drove you to strip <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">off your jeans
and t-shirt, dive down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">into the cool
hover of trout.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tell me <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">about the first
time water frightened you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">with her
weight, or her slick frozen surface.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Do you remember
when water schooled <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">you about
thirst, withheld herself <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">from your lips,
throat, your skin? Do you <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">remember that
red desert only the Hopi <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">could make
bloom, thousand-year-old songs <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">transforming
buckets of water and faith <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">into ears of
corn, tight kernels the color</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">of garnet,
sapphire, honey?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the last precious minutes, we composed our group poem from lines in our head, or from our own freewrites:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">That evening, we
arrived at the auditorium late, and ended up towards the back. The seating was fairly level, so it was hard
to see the readers (note: the Nat Geo auditorium, which was previously the venue, no longer rents to outside organizations - boo!). Luckily, as long as we
could hear their voices, lack of sight-line made no difference at all. We hung on every word from </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Camille
T. Dungy, Sharon Olds, Javier Zamora, and </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">2018 Sonia Sanchez-Langston Hughes Poetry Contest
Winner Jonathan Mendoza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jonathan’s
poem, <a href="http://www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-database/poem/osmosis">“Osmosis,”</a>
knocked us out of our seats even before his elders uttered a word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’d like to see and hear him read
“Osmosis,” check out this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RCSer_MUpI">video.</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">After a quick meal,
we went back to our hotel room in that odd, happy, buzzy state of exhaustion
and clarity: we couldn’t sleep, but we were beyond being able to go to the
evening’s open mike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, after
midnight, we drifted off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was already
excited about our plans for Friday.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">DAY
TWO<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
first panel I went to on Friday nearly blew my socks off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I seriously mean it when I say that I would
have paid the full festival fee just to attend an editing workshop <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this good.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Tools from the Editor's
Desk: A Revision-based Workshop for Poets and Poet-Editors.</span></i></strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br />
Presenters: Anna Lena Phillips Bell (Ecotone) and Sumita Chakraborty (AGNI) –
both also poets.<br />
Description: Editing is an act of love—an effort to help writers find their
work's best form and to help readers discover that work. Two editors who work
with poets for publication in national literary magazines will offer writers
fresh strategies for revising their own work and for offering practical
feedback on others' work. With both existing examples and poems written during
the workshop, we'll practice using tools from the craft of editing, including
the art of querying as well as considerations of syntax, rhetoric, grammar,
usage, and more. We'll explore strategies for providing feedback without furthering
oppression around class, race, gender, place of origin, and sexuality. We'll
discuss ways to engage compassionately, openly, and truthfully with both our
own identities and those of the writers we work with. We'll consider the
peculiar benefits and challenges of being a poet-editor, as well as ways to get
started as an editor for those who wish to explore the field. Writers will
leave the workshop with a packet of revision prompts and resources for editing.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By
this time, my colleague Julie Phillips Brown, a poet and scholar teaching at
Virginia Military Institute, had also joined us in D.C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She and I attended this workshop together,
and both came away feeling like we had been gifted a huge tool chest for
editing both the work of others, and our own; and, as teachers of poetry
workshops, some precision moves for responding to the work of students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both Anna Lena and Sumita spoke eloquently
and passionately about editing the poetry of others, emphasizing such
illuminating concepts as the inherent potential for resistance (nurturing a
poet to go to uncomfortable places), the compassion of close-reading/listening,
and stating that “good editing is something that wants to make a poem get
closer to its goal.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both women also
agreed that “if we are editing your piece, that means this piece is worthy of
our attention and time. It is also not sheer self-indulgence on our part; it is
necessary to make your work accessible, and readable; it leads to action and
resistance. It’s a way of empowering your piece, and your voice.” Once again, I
took copious notes.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Towards
the end of the session, Anna Lena and Sumita gave us a writing prompt:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>write about a mythological character; tell
her story in her persona.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Afterwards, we
picked a writing partner and practiced our new editing skills on one another’s
pieces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found myself writing in the
voice of an unnamed Chumash woman from the Santa Barbara Mission; she was a
very real person, not a legend, and documented in the letters and records of
the Spanish priests at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet
hers was the story that came to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
writing partner gave me powerful suggestions, some of which I’ve included
below, and some of which I have not yet had time to consider.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Split This Rock
#3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I don’t <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">remember my
names—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">not my tribal
name or baptismal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Spanish name—I
don’t <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">know my age or
the place<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I was born.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">All I know is
what I did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">What I said,
after <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I drank tea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">made of the
sacred root<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">hated by
missionaries. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">She</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> came to me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">pure white
blossom <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">of a goddess: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Chupa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She said, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">resist baptism.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">If they have splashed you<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">with their lies already,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">come to me at dawn <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">under indigo skies,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">be re-baptized <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">with Tears of the Sun.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Then your power <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">will belong to you <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">again. Tell everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">she said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The padre
ordered soldiers <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to take me out
back <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">of the women’s
quarters, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">beyond the
hearing of men. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Desnudarla, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the padre
whispered: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">flog<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">her. </span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I learned a whip <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">could tear
flesh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">like claws, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">that Spaniards
were not men, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">but a kind of monster<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">made by a
Creator<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">not our own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After that, I headed to a session with the
come-hither title, <strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">#RedStateWritersResist: Strategies for
Writing and Living in a Red State.</span></i></strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br />
Presenters: Jennifer Case, Meg Day, Miguel M. Morales, Wendy Oleson, Maria
Vasquez Boyd<br />
Description: With border walls, Muslim bans, and cuts in healthcare, education,
and environmental protection, what can writers do to resist? This diverse panel
of writers will discuss the challenges of writing and living in red states and
in red rural areas. These social and eco-justice-oriented writers live in
Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Washington,
and West Virginia. They strive to publish multi-genre work rooted in these
spaces, while giving voice to issues of women's health, reproductive rights,
and immigration and providing accurate representation of marginalized
communities, including disabled, queer, trans, and Latinx, among others.
Panelists will also facilitate the discussion by intermixing examples of their
work in the session. Panelists encourage participants who write and live in red
states and in red rural areas to contribute their own resistance and coping
strategies. In an effort to trump isolation, participants will also identify
resources and network across state lines in an effort we call
#RedStateWritersResist. In addition to using their voices and craft for
provocation and witness, panelists foster and engage their communities.
Examples include a radio program spotlighting creative marginalized voices,
migrant youth writers workshops, presentations in classrooms and other public
spaces, and forming community partnerships.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
loved this panel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was cathartic to
hear my own experience with living in a redstate – Virginia – validated (I
know, we went blue in the last election, but it was just barely blue, and more
in Northern Virginia than my own Southwestern, rural area) – not just in
discussion, but also in short excerpts or poems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">During
the Q&A portion, I asked, what do you do when your creativity is blocked or
tainted by the endless drain on your energies, the pressure that never lets up?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best answer I received came from Maria
Vasquez Boyd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She said, “When place and
circumstance block creativity, sit and think about who you are imagining as
your audience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you trying to placate
the community that is oppressing you, provoke activism and resistance from the
community you identify with, or are you panicked, stuck in between, unable to
pick a position or strategy because there is so much at stake?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take the time to resolve your audience, reaffirm
your intent, and I’m betting the creativity will loosen up.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes
we just need people to point out the obvious!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But this felt like a light going on in my head: that’s exactly what
happens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I worry about not being radical
enough for my own people, too radical for where I live and work, or simply
worry that I am ineffective and not up to the work. This is about doubt, about
the ways living in an occupied land, as a marginalized person whose choices are
often between accepting invisibility or some form of self-destruction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
felt something huge slide out of my path. I am so grateful.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From
there, I went to a panel I had been looking forward to for a long time: <strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Radical Traditions: tatiana de la
tierra and Gloria Anzaldúa's Poetry.</span></i></strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br />
Presenters: Sarah A. Chavez, Julie R. Enszer, Olga García Echeverría, Sara
Gregory, Dan Vera<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Description: Born in Colombia and raised in
Miami, FL, tatiana de la tierra was a bilingual and bicultural writer,
exploring issues of Latina identity, sexuality, and social activism. As an
editor and contributor, de la tierra founded the Latina lesbian
publications </span></i><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal;">esto no riene nombre</span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, </span></i><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal;">conmoción</span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, and l</span></i><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal;">a telaraña</span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">. In 2012, she passed away in Long Beach, CA. Gloria Anzaldúa is
now well recognized as a feminist, queer, and cultural theorist. Her
book, </span></i><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal;">Borderlands/La
Frontera: The New Mestiza</span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> (1987) and her essay,
“La Prieta,” are groundbreaking works. With Cherríe Moraga, Anzaldúa co-edited
the landmark anthology, </span></i><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal;">This Bridge Called My
Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color</span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> (1981).
Less recognized is Anzaldúa’s poetry. The new collection </span></i><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal;">Imaniman</span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, edited by ire’ne lara
silva and Dan Vera, begins new, intensive conversations about Anzaldúa’s
poetry. The reissue of tatiana de la tierra’s </span></i><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-style: normal;">Para Las Duras: Una Fenomenología Lesbiana/For the Hard Ones: A Lesbian
Phenomenology</span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> in the Sapphic
Classics series returns de la tierra to these conversations. Join us for
readings from these two books, discussions of the lives and legacies of
Anzaldúa and de la tierra, and reflections on publishing as part of radical
literary work.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dan
Vera began the session with a seemingly small ceremony: he explained that he
had recently made a trip to see Gloria Anzaldua’s gravesite, and visited a
small salt lake nearby (I think this might be La Sal del Rey).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Normally, he said, the lake was mostly a dry
lake bed, white with salt. But it had been raining heavily recently, and the
lake had filled up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He filled a small
bottle with some of the water and brought it home with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, he had a small squeeze bottle of the
salty water; he said, “I thought we could all share this, use it to bless
ourselves with this essence from Gloria’s homeland.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without discussing any details, we created
the ceremony on the spot: Dan put a drop in his hand, held out the bottle, and
put a drop into the hand of the woman beside him. She took the bottle, turned
to the man beside her, and put one drop into his hand, then passed him the
bottle. And so it went: we each received a drop of this water in one hand, and
gave a drop with the other. As for “blessing ourselves” – my instinct was to
put my two hands together as if in prayer, rub the water into my palms, then
“wash” my face with both hands, gently, from forehead to temples, over my eyes,
my cheekbones, my nose, cheeks, lips, chin, and neck.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
the ceremony was over, the panel continued as usual, but I felt as if the room
had gotten much more grounded, the clarity of words and thoughts heightened.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
happened over the next hour or so is hard to explain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I listened to the presenters, paid attention
to them carefully, but I also began to write. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Split This Rock #4<o:p></o:p></div>
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La Gloria<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bless these hands, my hands, my brown hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Bless the lifeline that runs from stem to stern<o:p></o:p></div>
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on the right, but breaks in two like a promise <o:p></o:p></div>
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halfway down on the left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bless the whorls <o:p></o:p></div>
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and swirls of my fingertips, the scars like stars <o:p></o:p></div>
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shooting across galaxies; bless these Indigenous <o:p></o:p></div>
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woman’s fingers which have transgressed for the sake<o:p></o:p></div>
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of pleasure, for the sake of another woman’s<o:p></o:p></div>
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pleasure, for the sake of connection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La Gloria,<o:p></o:p></div>
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bless these fingernails that have sung grief, ragged<o:p></o:p></div>
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and sharp with neglect, that have smoothed exultation<o:p></o:p></div>
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along the homeland of a lover’s hip. Bless these hands,<o:p></o:p></div>
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my hands, my brown hands, that they may protect<o:p></o:p></div>
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the past, sculpt a future, praise the luscious blossoms<o:p></o:p></div>
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of now; bless each knuckle, each dark teal vein; <o:p></o:p></div>
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La Gloria, I offer these hands up as tools for the work <o:p></o:p></div>
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you left behind, receptacles of your word, baskets <o:p></o:p></div>
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woven of clay, salt water, searing kiss of the sun.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2. <o:p></o:p></div>
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la tatiana<o:p></o:p></div>
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I find a deep oval pool in the woods, water <o:p></o:p></div>
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so clear I can see each strand of pale grass<o:p></o:p></div>
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pressed into its hollow shape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Floating inside:<o:p></o:p></div>
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dark tadpoles, fat fish with four legs curved <o:p></o:p></div>
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questions, flexed exquisitely webbed feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I strip off my clothes, step into the pool’s mirror,<o:p></o:p></div>
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lay down as if in my own bath at home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tadpoles<o:p></o:p></div>
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scatter to the edges, wary and displaced, but<o:p></o:p></div>
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I put my head back on the soft straw-colored<o:p></o:p></div>
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edge, spread my long black hair on the earth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I close my eyes, slow my breathing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I imagine that I’ve left the scarred skin<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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of a fifteen-year-old mestiza in a pile<o:p></o:p></div>
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on the forest floor, while my real body<o:p></o:p></div>
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stretches out in this honey’d water like a golden <o:p></o:p></div>
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carving from Pre-Columbian times. Soon, <o:p></o:p></div>
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the half-fish/half-frogs swim choppy<o:p></o:p></div>
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strokes around me, attracted to the warmth <o:p></o:p></div>
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of my thigh, rounded shelter of my small breasts. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Their webbed hands push off from my belly, <o:p></o:p></div>
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brush the hard humps of my knees, scrabble <o:p></o:p></div>
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between my toes like curious children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Am I <o:p></o:p></div>
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their golden goddess, a holy land, rolling hills <o:p></o:p></div>
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of their mythology?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
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to join their tribe, be recognized as one of them: <o:p></o:p></div>
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neither land-animal nor water-animal—<o:p></o:p></div>
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amphibian, twinned soul, creature born <o:p></o:p></div>
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of collision and wonder.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Near
the end of this session, we again turned toward the lack of an “afterlife” for
so many of our writerly Ancestors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
this case, we learned that only a small percentage of Anzaldua’s poetry has been
published, but that her papers at UT Austin hold many more poems, seen by few,
just begging to be collected, edited (that by itself is a daunting thought),
and given a publication home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Julie
Enszer asked once more, “How do we bring other marginalized authors of color
into conversation with their afterlives?” I asked Dan if he knew if anyone was
working on that – it seemed such a tasty, tempting project, I couldn’t imagine
that those poems weren’t already someone’s baby – but he said that AnaLouise
Keating, who has done the majority of work with Anzaldua’s papers, stated that
she has no interest in working with the poetry, as she’s not a poet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one else has stepped up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wished I could, but I have my own backlogged
materials. So I’m throwing this idea out there to the winds:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know you are out there, somewhere— that
perfect person who can take this project and bring it home!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
the evening, our tired minds and bodies were cleansed by the voices and worlds
of Elizabeth Acevedo, Sherwin Bitsui, Kwame Dawes, Solmaz Sharif. My responses
to these readers was, oddly enough, not something I could put into words at the
time, or even now. Their voices, their images and intentions, the doorways they
opened up inside of me, are reverberating, but I do not yet have the language
to talk/write about them, just yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
readings left me stunned, shot through with happiness. Just to know that this
kind of work <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">exists. </i>Just to know
that . . . is a joy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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THREE<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Saturday
morning, I headed for <strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Fantasy As Reality: Activism and
Catharsis Through Speculative Writing, </span></i></strong><strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">with presenters </span></i></strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rita Banerjee, Marlena Chertock, and Christina
M. Rau.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Description: This panel will demonstrate how
non-realist poems and prose can offer a space for political critique and
empowerment. We will ask audience members about their own speculative writing
and reading experiences and offer prompts to those who wish to work on similar
future writing. Speculative and science fiction are often stereotyped as
futuristic, extraterrestrial, and fantastical romps through universes using
space travel, time travel, and super-advanced technology centered on white cis
males. However, women, non-binary, and activist writers of speculative
literature are purposefully subverting this stereotype, diversifying and owning
the fantastical worlds that they imagine. Speculative literature, at its core,
is about giving voice to “The Other.” Speculative writing, in prose or poetry,
focuses on not only imagined realities of the future, past, and present but
also gives voice to bodies and individuals who are disabled, alien,
marginalized, menial workers, and other traditionally neglected voices. Sci-fi
and fantasy characters and voices can—and should—represent the underrepresented
to create a sense of community as well as to challenge injustices in our real
world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Confession:
I currently have <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">two</i> speculative
fiction stories going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both utilize
Indigenous protagonists and the after-effects of drastic climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have not attempted speculative poetry, although
I’m honestly not sure just where that particular line between genres actually
lies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But speculative/fantasy/sci-fi
writing interests me deeply, especially where it intersects with cli-fi
(Climate Change fiction, a term I learned, oh, about two days ago).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
this panel, Rita Banerjee gave a beautiful overview of early speculative
writing, including “Sultana’s Dream,” by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, published in
1905; basically, Hossain imagined a feminist utopia in which women run the
world, and men are secluded in purdah. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Moon-Mountain, </i>by B. Banjeree, appeared in 1937; later, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Indigo and other Stories </i>by Satyajit
Ray. Other titles that I caught: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Night
with Kali,” “Treevolution, </i>by Tara Campbell, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Ink,” “Crixa.” </i>I haven’t verified them yet; I was just trying to
write down what sounded interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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few panelist quotes that struck me: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“The
non-fiction question: we must <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">have </i>a
question in order to write, but an answer is not required,”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“There’s
a gorgeousness of writing you can experience when you are serving others” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and
“Ask ‘what if’ and ‘why not’?” (all from Rita).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Hope
is a way of serving,” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“When
writing, follow your heart and the activism will follow,” (both from Christina
Rau). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
was also at this panel that I learned about a service called “Sensitivity
Readers.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Panelist Marlena Chertock
noted that she had employed a Sensitivity Reader while writing in order to
avoid making offensive or inaccurate statements. “It’s wonderful for those
times when you are writing outside of your own cultural experience, have done
the majority of your own research, but understand that you can’t know
everything,” she said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She gave a couple
of solid examples from her own writing process to prove the point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually, this is a useful and important
service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I have to admit that I also
I thought to myself: Finally! when white people writing about Native Americans
contact me, asking if I’ll read their manuscripts and give them the Indigenous
Stamp of Approval, I can tell them <a href="http://writeinthemargins.org/sensitivity-readers/">where to go!</a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I also
learned that I have been ignorant of work by Rita Banerjee herself, and that is
a damn shame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the panelists read,
she blew me away (I bought her book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Echo
in Four Beats </i>on the spot); Rita also co-edited <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">CREDO: </i></span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">An Anthology of
Manifestos & Sourcebook for Creative Writing</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> that I can’t wait to get my hands
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Afterwards,
we took time to browse the Book Fair, which featured many small presses doing
the heavy lifting of publishing poets whose work is simply not considered marketable
or canonical enough to get through the gatekeepers of Big Publishing. Then,
too, there are many of us who prefer the love that small presses can give our
babies. In addition to looking at the books, I also loved being able to pick up
free past-issues of poetry journals from all over, fliers for contests and
calls for poetry, postcards for books I want to request that my institution’s
library order, and bits of bling – pens, post-its, pins, candy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Before, during and after the readings,
Busboys & Poets also ran a small booth with books of featured poets.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had some of the best conversations with
publishers there, was solicited for three journals, and marveled that I felt as
if I were being seen as a human being whose craft has value, rather than a
hungry fish trying to catch that dangling worm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
the afternoon, following lunch, I full intended to go to a panel celebrating <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Imaniman,</i> an anthology of poets writing
in Gloria Anzaldua’s borderlands, and in response to her beautiful work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By then, I had going full steam from morning
till late at night for two full days, and when I arrived at the building where
I had thought the panel would be held, I discovered that it was actually
happening in another building. The rush of emotional exhaustion that crashed
into me was telling: I really needed a break, and even though it could not have
come at a worse time, in terms of festival scheduling, I needed to take that
break.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I stayed where I was, bought a
cup of hot tea, sat down, and journaled for a couple of hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several acquaintances stopped by to chat,
then moved on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the time Margo arrived
for the 4:45 reading, I was revived. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Split This Rock #5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Translate me. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This </i>means <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Mostly. But sometimes not at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Translation is a kind of magic,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">a mixture of knowledge, intuition,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">and risk. Like a trio of voices,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">three elements take turns<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">at center stage or back-up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Translate me. Take measure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">of my body language, words,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">tone. Take my tears onto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">your shoulder, taste them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">by osmosis. Breathe in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">my scent: abandonment,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">shame, hope. Take buried<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">language of a buried child,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">turn it into narrative.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Use simple words. It’s okay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Help me build up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">my vocabulary. Stay<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">in present tense – the past<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">is too complicated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">No dictionary, no grammar:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">we’ll create it as we go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">A sleeping language,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">isolated and soaked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">in ancient idioms<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">no one uses anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Take your time. Take<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">notes. Take my tongue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">into wonder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On
Saturday afternoon and evening, the last few hours of the festival, I stretched
and stretched to embrace no fewer than six poets giving featured readings
(Kazim Ali, Ellen Bass, Terisa Siagatonu, Ilya Kaminsky, Sonia Sanchez, Paul
Tran). Fortunately, these readings were divided into two sessions, one just
before dinner, and one immediately afterwards.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
wish I could give each one of these readers their due.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something about Split This Rock! – the venue,
the purpose, the intensity of commitment to social justice, to love – brings out
the best in every single poet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And these
are already fantastic writers, to start with!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Let me just say that Terisa Siagatonu, Paul Tran, and Ilya Kaminsky gave
readings that shook me to my core – in good ways. Kazin Ali, a masterful
trickster. Ellen Bass, a living legend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sonia Sanchez, a powerful elder whose tears tore us down, then built us
back up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No
wonder I was tired: Split This Rock! is not just a place, nor just a literary
festival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a crucible, an
awakening, a cracking open of the heart that has been hardened by oppression,
grief, fear, exhaustion. Poetry is the hammer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My heart was the rock.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I found out
about STR in 2016, when Anishinabe poet Heid Erdrich organized a panel of
Native poets for the festival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unfortunately, it was not a good experience for any of us (the panel,
that is – the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">festival </i>was glorious).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were crammed into a tiny room, jammed with
sofas and folding chairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The walls were
translucent, movable screens that did nothing to block the very loud noise from
other panels and activities with booming mikes going on around us. We were told
that because one of us required tech, this was the only space available. But
given that planning for each STR begins two years in advance, and given the
respect for the poetry itself, shouldn’t tech and a decent space be a little
less hard to find? Our audience was also small; it seemed we did not have much
of a following or name recognition. Some of the people who came to our event
knew little to nothing about the history of Native Americans, other than some
vague and pitying concept of genocide and erasure. We had the usual share of
(white) people wanting to talk to us about their Indian ancestors or dreams or
previous-life-experiences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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other issues, but I won’t list them here. My main point is, as a venue for
black, Asian, Latinx, Filipina/o, persons with disabilities, and Queer writers,
STR totally <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rocks. </i>However, our small
group of Indigenous poets did not feel STR was a friendly place, or perhaps
more specifically, not a very accessible place, for a panel by Indigenous
peoples (I want to say that I am speaking here of North American Indigenous
peoples, as tribal folks from elsewhere are sometimes present).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By this I mean the festival has a lack in both
the inclusion of Indigenous poets as featured readers or on panels built around
Indigenous poetry, as well as in any basic acknowledgment by Split This Rock! that
it meets on the occupied land of Indigenous people whose claim to that land was
negated, brutally stolen, while they themselves were being starved, hunted
down, and murdered. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A metaphor
might be good just about now. In discussing whether or not the United States can
be decolonized without being destroyed (one of those Facebook conversations
that keep me coming back to FB as a networking, intellectual meeting place –
curate your FB communities, people!), I recently wrote, simply, “nope.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After more discussion, I felt moved to add:</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I have often used the
metaphor that if the U.S. is a house, then the foundation is built out of
genocide and slavery, which is fast and dirty, but also unstable. So build a
big rambling house on top of that, and then, years later, realize you have some
serious rehab to do. The foundation is completely unusable - at the very least,
you're gonna have to jack the house up and create an all-new foundation out of
material with integrity and long-lasting substance. And then ... you have to go
back and readjust the whole house: timbers, plumbing, wiring, etc - because it
all shifted as the foundation collapsed, and lots of critters have gotten into
the wood, walls, insulation. In essence, you are rebuilding the house, and
probably, you'll improve and update it as you go, because now you have all
kinds of ideas and new dreams, made possible by the stronger foundation. In the
end, if you can actually accomplish all of this, will it be the same house?
Nope. Creating a better foundation makes so much possible now that wasn't
before. The foundation can bear more weight. The house can reflect that power.”</span></span></blockquote>
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that 'U.S. Government is based on Indigenous principles’ – does that not leave
some base to build on? Just asking” – and I replied, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This discussion
is useful in thinking about where STR can go in the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me be clear: I adore and need<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>and <i>revel</i> in STR.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing else quite like it exists, it is
ground zero for training in community involvement and social justice, and a
true demonstration of all that poetry can do to alleviate suffering, repair a
damaged world, and empower oppressed human beings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Split This Rock!</span> is, in fact, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">actively working to rebuild the rotting foundations of this country. </i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Yet even as I walk
through the loving crowds and sit in the fabulous panels, I am just a little
bit lonely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though I was at the
festival all day, every day, for three long days, I saw only one other
Indigenous face this year – and it was Sherwin Bitsui, one of the featured
readers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Coya White Hat-Artichoker</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
Lakota, also attended as a panelist in a session that conflicted with what I
planned to attend, and unfortunately, I did not make contact with Coya at
STR.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">That said, if STR is doing the work of re-constructing the
foundations of this country – and I believe that it is – then the festival
needs to do more to include, nurture, and learn from, the Indigenous people on
whose land we all live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I understand
that this is going to require more Indigenous participation, and that’s also
problematic in some ways, as the Native poetry community is small, scattered,
and frankly, for many, even less financially and psychically well-situated than
the larger communities currently involved. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even so, if STR
invited Indigenous poets to read, to organize panels, and even provided
financial help for travel and lodging, would festival goers attend our
events?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a kind of
visibility-ceiling that we had difficulty with during the 2016 festival, and
which I, as a California Indian well-known on the west coast but almost unknown
on the East, have also had difficulty breaking through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the things I love so much about STR is
the way the festival discovers, provides a stage for, and “grows” young or
under-represented poets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It isn’t true that
no Indigenous poets have read at STR – Joy Harjo, Sherwin Bitsui, and Allison
Hedge Coke have been featured readers in the first six biennial festivals, Bitsui
twice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But think about this: what if, in six events each spaced two years apart, a festival of poets working against
oppression in the United States <i>only featured black poets three times?</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A lot more
needs to be said about this situation, but I can’t say it all here, and mine is
not the only voice that needs to be heard. Yes, I did speak briefly to Dan
Vera, a poet on the board of STR, who was deeply receptive, and is clearly
thinking about these issues. Because I did not even know about STR until 2016
(which is bizarre in and of itself – too busy surviving in Confederatlandia?!),
and plan on retiring to the west coast in the not-too-distant future, I’m not
sure what I can contribute as long as STR remains a D.C.-based entity. But here
I am, opening a conversation. Who wants to join in? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Caveat: this
blog post is simply and only my tiny view of Split This Rock!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So much else happens at this festival, I
can’t possibly begin to cover more than my own fraction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The creative energy generated in these three
days is phenomenal!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can view the
entire program for Split This Rock! 2018 <a href="http://www.splitthisrock.org/programs/festival-biennial/2018-festival/program-schedule/thursday-april-19-2018/">here.</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The program alone is a wonderful resource of
poets, topics, and events – more than enough to last you until 2020, when STR
will return for year #11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prepare
yourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s gonna be EPIC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Also, remember
that STR is more than the festival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Events, workshops, actions, open-mikes and more are on-going in the D.C.
area throughout the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Check everything
out at splitthisrock.org .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/donate.aspx?eventid=148678&langpref=en-CA&Referrer=direct%2fnone" target="_blank">Don’t forget to donate if you can.</a> Split This Rock! is growing the future heart and soul of
this country, but it also nurtures and sustains many poets in the present, and
provides space for us to honor our literary Ancestors. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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women.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This was my first thought when a Native woman contacted me
to ask about a prominent Native male writer’s history as a sexual harasser.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">My second thought was for the writer’s immediate family, his
wife, his children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">If there’s one thing I know, it’s how a father’s sins follow
his children like a storm cloud, waiting to burst when they least expect it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">My father was married three times, and during each marriage,
he went on alcoholic rampages, yelled and threatened and carried out those
threats. He beat his wives and children, belittled them, betrayed their love
for him. As a young first-time husband, an older husband in the marriage that
produced me, a middle-aged husband on a second try with my mother, and an
elderly husband with his last spouse: his age did not matter, or how far he had
come in terms of financial stability.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
his last marriage, he was so sick that he couldn’t even drink anymore, but his
frustration and rage over his physical disabilities – and whatever demons he
carried – still haunted him, his wife, his children and step-children. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I’ve written about my experience with my father when he
returned from San Quentin after serving an eight-year sentence (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir).</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I have not written about what it’s like
to be the “out” child of an abuser.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
it’s like when everybody knows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">A few years ago, a colleague asked me, “Why was your father
sent to prison?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Everything stopped. There was a hard, dead beat of silence.
My mind raced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could lie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could sugar-coat it. I could make a joke
out of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But could I just . . . <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">say it?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I’d written it down, published it even, but I had not said
it aloud, in casual conversation, to someone I barely knew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had only ever said it in private, in
confidence, in the safety of friendship or love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">“Rape.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The word came out of my mouth in an ugly gush of shame and
reluctance and rebellion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, I would
not keep this secret for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, I
would not make it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">my </i>secret.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, I would not bear the sins of my father
for him. But yes: it was an awful thing to admit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">“Wow,” my colleague said: “That must have been hard to say.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I shrugged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
what it is, I mumbled, or something like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I’ve spent most of my life unpacking what it means to be the
daughter of a man who has committed crimes against women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My father’s sentence was harsh, in part,
because he did not just rape a woman; he beat her, badly (he was also a very
dark Indigenous man with a Spanish surname; that didn’t help his cause).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw his fury first-hand; I knew the terror
of being caught out by it, trapped by it, made helpless and dehumanized by it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cannot imagine having it cut loose on me in
a dark parking lot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">As a child, I knew that my daddy was in prison.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was as much a part of my growing-up as
knowing where my dark hair, dark eyes and brown skin came from – my Dad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was incarcerated when I was three years
old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t see him again until I was
thirteen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the interim, he’d spent
eight years in a maximum-security prison (then lived in Los Angeles for a few
years before I saw him again).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every
once in a while, an envelope with intriguing, back-slanting handwriting showed
up in our mailbox, even though we moved almost every year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The return address corner of the envelope read
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Box No. A-93223, Tamal, California 94964</i>.
“A-93223” was my father’s inmate number.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I still have a few pieces of that correspondence. Some of
the envelopes are addressed to me, “Miss Deborah Ann Miranda” and others to my
mother, “Mrs Midgie E. Williamson.” Usually my father sent a cheap card, but
sometimes he wrote long rambling letters – front and back of a single piece of
unlined paper – in his odd, even hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In a 1968 letter he talked about sending out job applications, hoping
for parole, looking for a place to live: “Santa Monica or W.L.A. for me,
Midgie,” (it would be another two years before he actually made parole). My
name comes up a lot, though reading the letter now, I suspect not because my
father actually regretted missing out on eight years of my life; it was one way
my dad could be sure he and his “Midgie” were still connected – “How’s Debby
Ann making out? I sure have missed her very much, guess she has forgotten me by
now, que no?” – then right back into how bad he felt for angry things he’d said
in a previous letter “that hurt your feelings and your husband’s too.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">My dad asked for money, sent along a “Christmas package
authorization” form in bright red and green, checking off which of the approved
gifts he would prefer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The form lays out
rules: packages sent to San Quentin would be accepted no earlier than November
29, no later than December 20; no more than 15 pounds; must be composed only of
the approved items (‘NO HOMEMADE FRUITCAKE’).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Later, my dad wrote again to complain that he hadn’t even gotten a
Christmas card from us – “It sure hurt me not to receive any,” he wrote
reproachfully.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In 1968, the year my Dad sent that letter, I was seven years
old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lived with my mom and step-father
in the Cedar View Trailer Park in Buckley, Washington.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were broke most of the time, though not as
broke as we would be in a few more years when we’d drive from one store to the
next searching for the cheapest price for hamburger, and settle on a pack of
hotdogs instead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things happened to me
in that trailer park that I am still coming to terms with fifty years later,
things that left scars internally and externally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I needed my father; he was in prison.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I needed rescuing; he had abandoned me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What would I have told him, if I could have?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">An inmate’s children serve their time, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At times in my life, it seemed as if my
father’s inmate number was my permanent address. Aside from missing my father
in ways I did not even have language to articulate, there was always that
question: “where is your dad?” and then, “what did he do?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">My mother never did tell me about my father’s crime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(The fact that, after his sentencing, she
experienced a kind of breakdown, quite literally disappeared for a year into
alcohol and grief, speaks volumes about the depth of her wound.) Somehow, I
learned my father was imprisoned for rape, but of course, rape meant nothing to
me at that time – even though one of my mother’s boyfriends molested me that
same year my father wrote asking for money and Christmas presents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later, after he had moved back in with us
when I was thirteen, my Dad asked me, “Do you know what I went to prison for?”
and, saying he didn’t want me to hear it from anyone else, “It was rape.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He hastened to add that it wasn’t <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">really </i>rape, the girl had just lied to
him about her age, it was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">statutory rape,</i>
and she just didn’t want her brothers to think she “was that kind of girl.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The real reason my father wanted to be the one to tell me
was so he could craft the story his way; slant the truth backwards, like his
handwriting, so that it became <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">his </i>story
– not the story of the woman he’d attacked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The woman he had
attacked.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How much did it cost me to
write that, just now?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And to remember
the scent of my father, the rich darkness of his skin, soft as tanned deer hide
against my cheek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The joy of leaping
into his arms and knowing he was strong enough to carry me, lift me up, swing
me around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sound of his voice, like
flowing caramel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And to think: that same
strength meant he was too strong for the woman he attacked to fight off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She heard that same voice as he raped
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She felt that skin against her
skin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Having a father who hurts women changes a child; it colored
the way I saw the world as a little girl, before he left, and again as a
teenager, after his return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It helped
create a silent space inside my body where I learned to hide secrets – not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">my</i> secrets, but the secrets of men who
hurt me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like a foreign object, my body
formed a hard, rancid sack around that space, protected it from discovery,
while letting its poison seep out into my sense of self.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was ashamed to tell friends about my
father’s crime, thinking they would feel less loyalty to me; thinking they
would be afraid of him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, of the
small group of solid girlfriends I had in high school, only one of them ever
came to visit our trailer. I always went to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My home didn’t feel safe to me, either.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">It’s one
thing to know the statistics: </span><a href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/249736.pdf"><span style="background: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">More than 4 in 5 American Indian and Alaska
Native women have experienced violence, and more than 1 in 2 have experienced
sexual violence.</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black;"> We are told that most
of those assaults are from non-Indigenous men, but</span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">what is it like
knowing that your father, the Indian man you adore despite everything, preys on
women, wants to dominate them, use whatever power he has to hurt them, demean
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I’m fifty-six years old, and I’m still figuring out how my
father’s crimes affected my own identity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After years of therapy, I was still convinced that the mean,
self-critical voice in my head was mine, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">my
</i>self-flagellation, until one day my therapist asked me, “Whose voice is
that?” and without missing a beat I replied, “My father’s.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was stunned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">“I fought all my life to keep him out of my head,” I
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about that kernel of meanness in your own soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It means you question your ability to love, to support, the women in
your life – girlfriends, wives, daughters. If you are an Indigenous woman, it
can make you think that being Indian means nothing but pain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">If you<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>are an
Indigenous woman, it might mean believing that you must <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">deserve</i> pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It might mean
wrestling endlessly with your own daughter about her womanhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It might mean letting men walk all over you
because you have learned that is their right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">If you are a man, it means you have no clear path towards
forming relationships with the women you love that is not fraught with
second-guessing and fear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It might mean
excessive loneliness and longing for the very people you have been taught are
weak and undeserving.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">But most of all, knowing that your father hurts women means shame,
and anger, and guilt, and a tear down the middle of your soul; it means knowing
what you wish you didn’t know, and never being able to forget it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In my case, I often think of the horrific patriarchal
colonization that was my father’s tribal history in the missions of California:
a form of historical trauma that traces directly from Catholic priests teaching
Indigenous parents how, and when, to beat their own children as punishment; those
same Indigenous parents had never seen or used corporal punishment but were,
themselves, punished by the priests if they did <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not </i>beat their children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Follow that up with generation after generation of poverty, dehumanizing
treatment from Spaniards, Mexicans and Americans, erasure of almost everything
Indigenous, a culture of shame and pain in which all Indigenous people were
devalued and debased, but especially Indigenous women. The only real power many
Indigenous men could claim was over women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For some men, misogyny becomes the norm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Knowing that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">just because your father was hurt by people and events beyond his
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Knowing that what he did is also a part of who you are, who
you will be, who you will love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will
be part of your children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will change
the direction of your life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will
require you to be stronger than you think is fair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will present you with challenges you did
not ask for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will throw obstacles
down in front of you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will make you
want to tear your skin off because you inherited that skin from him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It will make you want to tear your heart out because you
can’t stop loving him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if you
convince yourself that you can stop, you can’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">As I write this tonight, a storm is brewing – on Twitter, on
Facebook, on blogs, and in mainstream news outlets. That major Native American
male writer being named one of the most relentless sexual harassers of Native
women writers, as well as women in the film industry, has been lauded and
celebrated for his (often uneven) work representing our under-represented
culture; he’s won all the big writing awards, movies have been made of his
works, and he is in demand as a speaker like no other Native writer, despite
his high speaking fee. Early on in his career, he was chosen as the darling of
reviewers and, with his charismatic, problematic, but always media-savvy
verbosity, to represent . . . well, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>And though it’s true that publishers seem
incapable of acknowledging more than one Indigenous writer at a time, a lot of this
writer’s success, both financially and as a writer, comes because the man knows
how to work a crowd. He is a performer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I lived in the Seattle area while this man was a rising
star. We met a few times at writing events, conferences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I knew he was volatile, unpredictable,
irreverent to the point of cruelty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back
in the old days when we were all on the only Native Lit listserv, he joined
under a pseudonym so he could see what we were saying about him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually, during a heated discussion about
mixed-blood writers, this man outed himself and told us all what he thought of
us – I don’t recall the details, except that he made it clear we were lesser
beings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do recall thinking, or rather <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">feeling, </i>that this was a man to keep
clear of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So when we saw one another in
person, I asked after his wife, his son, then (when another baby came along)
his sons; I steered our conversations toward traffic on I-5, grandparents,
sleep deprivation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was never inappropriate with
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also never reached out to me,
something most Indigenous writers do frequently with one another – do you have
a piece for this anthology I’m editing, nice job on that poem in such-and-such
journal, hey I heard somebody has a new reading series you’d be good for – but
then he was mind-blowingly famous; he was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">busy.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sure, he talked about anal sex during readings, blow jobs,
cursed up a storm. He went on long rants that were funny, at first, but
devolved into hatchet jobs for some poor target.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Significantly, he often said the things about white people, colonization, and anti-Indian sentiments rampant in U.S. culture that needed to be said, that many Indians longed to say but did not dare. We loved him for those moments. </span>His humor almost always pulled his fat out of the fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there are other
stories, too, that circulated on the down-low: he backed Indigenous women into corners, stalked them
by email, demanded sexual contact in exchange for not trashing their writing in
public. He rewarded women who adored him with invitations to readings, dinner,
book blurbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And just to complicate things,
he did all these things for other women and never made a pass, creating a kind
of cognitive dissonance when women compared stories. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I believe the women who are now naming Sherman Alexie as a
man who has bullied, threatened, and sexually harassed them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know these women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve known most of them as long as I’ve known
Alexie, and they are strong, honest, loving human beings who have supported me
throughout my career as a writer, as a professor, through my life as a mother
and grandmother. These are the women who didn’t bat an eyelash when I came out,
who sympathized over rough reviews of my writing, shared their own stories of
struggle with me; women who create spaces in the literary world for Indigenous
women’s voices to live when Indigenous women’s voices are routinely ignored,
silenced and maligned. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I believe the women, because they are my community, and have
been, before and after whatever small successes I have had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have little to gain, and everything to
lose, by telling their stories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I know how hard, how painful, it is for an Indigenous woman
to “tell” on a powerful Indigenous man who has accepted the privileges of
power. On a man who has elevated the literature of our people into mainstream news, classrooms, bookstores.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">And I know that, bad as this situation is for those women,
and for the field of Native American literature, these men create other
victims, too; ripples of violence and grief.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I know that when a father hurts women, his children and his
wife take a blow like nothing they’ve ever felt before. Though not guilty of
any crime, they’ll face a kind of sentencing anyway. Tonight, as the storm gets
ready to break, I am thinking of them, wincing at what is to come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish I could say something wise that would
make a difference. I wish I didn’t know how much hard work is in front of them.
I wish I could say:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Look, nobody gets to choose their parents. We <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">do </i>get to choose how <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">we </i>parent. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">My father abused women. I carry that knowledge with me. For a
long time, carrying such heavy knowledge made me sick, depressed; it made me
abuse myself. Sometimes, it still does – I won’t lie to you, this is a lifelong
process. But at least now I use what I’ve learned from that experience: watch
out for women and children. Raise a son who values the women in his life, and
the tender side of his own soul. If your daughter struggles, stand as a model
of strength but do not presume to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">be</i>
her strength. Never underestimate the destructive power of silence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I don’t know the whole story behind Alexie’s actions. I
might never know. <span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Yet it is part of the
pattern of an abuser to prevent those he abuses from sharing stories with one
another, through threats, pleading hard-luck, asking for another chance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Poverty, a shattering childhood of abuse, the shame of being Indian in a
white world, brain damage due to seizures, brain surgery—in many ways, </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">it
really does suck to be Sherman Alexie. And yet, life has sucked for many
of us in very similar ways, and we've managed to pull ourselves through life, write, and engage with
other Indigenous writers <i>without sexually or otherwise harassing those
weaker than us.</i></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Native women are finally speaking about the fear that
Sherman Alexie, a Native man, instilled in them through sexual harassment. That
prison of fear often seems impossible to escape. I know those walls, those
guards, those cells. My heart is with the women staging this break-out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I know that nothing can contain this story now. The women
are speaking. I’m listening. Are you?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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