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id: transmotion-1081
author: Stirrup, David
title: Editorial
date: 2022-06-01
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summary:
  On this occasion, we particularly welcome our new Creative Editor, Steven Sexton of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and reviews assistant Bethany Webster-Parmentier of Europa-Universität Flensburg. --- As a reminder to our readers, Transmotion is open access, thanks to the generous sponsorship of the University of Kent: all content is fully available on the open internet with no paywall or institutional access required, and it always will be. Microsoft Word - editorial.docx Transmotion Vol 8, No 1 (2022) i Editorial It brings us great pleasure to welcome you to this second in our guest-edited double issue of Transmotion on Indigeneity and the Anthropocene.


id: transmotion-1051
author: Stirrup, David
title: Editorial
date: 2021-12-19
pages: 1
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summary:
  As ever, our team of review editors have put together a fantastic selection of reviews, and we are grateful as ever to all those who work with us behind the scenes to put the journal together and make it a valuable contribution to the field. --- As a reminder to our readers, Transmotion is open access, thanks to the generous sponsorship of the University of Kent: all content is fully available on the open internet with no paywall or institutional access required, and it always will be. It brings us great pleasure to welcome you to this guest-edited issue of Transmotion on Indigeneity and the Anthropocene.


id: transmotion-167
author: -, -
title: Author Biographies
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 1
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summary:
  He is a regular contributor to The Journal of Beckett Studies and Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui. Before joining the UMD faculty Joseph earned his PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, enjoyed one year at the University of Illinois as a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in American Indian Studies, and enjoyed two years at UCLA with concurrent appointments as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the program for the study of Cultures in Transnational Perspective and as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English.


id: transmotion-158
author: Johnson, Leigh C.
title: Singing at the Gates: Selected Poems (Jimmy Santiago Baca)
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 2
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summary:
  From his early prison poetry to longer lyric poems to accompany art exhibitions, the collection solidifies the major themes in Baca’s poetic oeuvre. Microsoft Word - Johnson.docx Transmotion Vol 1, No 1 (2015)   118   Baca, Jimmy Santiago.


id: transmotion-201
author: Madsen, Deborah
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 2
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title:
  Those Who Belong: Identity, Family, Blood and Citizenship among the White Earth Anishinaabeg (Jill Doerfler)

summary:
  These traditional practices form the core of Doerfler's argument that the rejection of blood quantum in favor of tribal citizenship by lineal descent is a powerful act of survivance, which she defines as “a reimagining of sovereignty that brings control to tribal nations and encompasses political status, resistance, cultural values, and traditions” (xxxii). The work is a finely researched study that brings into relation the historical and legal contexts for debates concerning the regulation of citizenship at White Earth, though this close focus on one tribal group has valuable implications for the broader issue of tribal citizenship.


id: transmotion-144
author: Lee, A Robert
title: From the Extinct Volcano, A Bird of Paradise (Carter Revard)
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 2
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summary:
  How else to designate this New and Selected with its span of Osage and other tribal creation stories, the community role of song, evolutionary biology (especially dinosaurs), astrophysics and the cosmos, hummingbirds, Oklahoma dust and history, Wall Street, the Iraq War, and not least a run of haiku? http://mongrelempire.org/catalog/poetry/from-extinct-volcano.html One thing you can be sure of with the authorship of Carter Revard: it never fails to offer a full menu, what the French call une bonne bouche.


id: transmotion-1004
author: Pyle, Kai
title: Gijigijigaaneshiinh Gikendaan/What the Chickadee Knows (Margaret Noodin)
date: 2021-08-11
pages: 4
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summary:
  Nitami-waawiindamaagewining ikido Giiwedinoodin, “The first section of the book illustrates the way Anishinaabemowin blends philosophy, science, and psychology while the second half traces less commonly known histories or provides a less common view of well-known events” (ix). Dibishkoo a’aw Chi-Anishinaabekwe gaa- ozhibii’iged Bemwewegiizhigookwe, Giiwedinoodin gidadibaajimotaagonaan Anishinaabewakiing.


id: transmotion-149
author: Bryant, Rachel
title: Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England (Ed. Siobhan Senier)
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 2
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summary:
  It would be misguided, she compellingly argues here, for a non-Native editor to act as an intellectual invader of Indigenous cultural territory—to perpetuate an academic doctrine of discovery in which Indigenous writers, however well known among Native peoples or within tribal communities, are supposedly “found” by outside scholars and then counted for “credit” within Western institutional value structures. Joan Tavares Avant (Granny Squannit) introduces writings by the Mashpee Wampanoag and the Wampanoag of Gay Head, providing brief histories for each tribe before emphasizing the crucial role that writing can play in communicating the oft-neglected perspectives of tribal peoples.


id: transmotion-154
author: Lalonde, Chris
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 2
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title:
  The Gift of the Face: Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian (Shamoon Zamir) and The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927 (Jace Weaver)

summary:
  In short, and here there is a connection with The Gift of the Face, The Red Atlantic wants us to look again at Atlantic studies in order to see the role played by indigenes, all too often either erased or marginalized and without agency by works in the field. He would have us think hard about the composition of many Curtis images.


id: transmotion-186
author: Glancy, Diane
title: Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823 (Catharine Brown)
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 3
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summary:
  Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818- 1823. As I read Cherokee Sister, I longed for what didn’t exist— a narrative in Cherokee of the collision.


id: transmotion-1046
author: Craft, Aimée
title: The Ghost Road: Anishinaabe Responses to Indian Hating (Matthew L.M. Fletcher)
date: 2021-12-15
pages: 3
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summary:
  Respect that Anishinaabe stories have levels of complexity. Let me tell you that it is: Fletcher paints a compelling picture about historic hate as being largely based in theories of superiority, with an underlying objective of acquiring land, displacing Indian people from their territories (this is the kinder version of what might be called genocide), and exploiting the land, water, and everything on, in, and over it.


id: transmotion-195
author: Gross, Lawrence
title: Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature (Margaret Noodin)
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 3
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summary:
  Although I would highly recommend the book be assigned for any variety of college courses dealing with Anishinaabe culture and literature, it needs to be acknowledged that the clear spotlight Noodin shines on Anishinaabe language, culture, thought, and worldview is so radically different from Western approaches, it might be extremely difficult for individuals not versed in the culture to fully understand and appreciate the gift Noodin is offering to the world. One important aspect of Noodin’s book is that, while not explicitly citing my work, it takes the sentiment informing that observation and demonstrates how it functions in the writings of Anishinaabe authors, most especially in terms of the often sexual nature of the their works.


id: transmotion-1037
author: Da', Laura
title: Altar for Broken Things: Poems (Deborah Miranda)
date: 2021-12-16
pages: 4
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summary:
  Altar for Broken Things: Poems. The connection between land and self underpins the deep empathy of these poems.


id: transmotion-1062
author: Anderson, Zachary
title: Our Bearings (Molly McGlennen)
date: 2022-06-01
pages: 4
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summary:
  McGlennen’s counter-cartography of Minneapolis offers a compelling model for engaging with urban space where the mnemonic pegs are how to recall the medicine of story encircle the node which is to say mode of learning observation (36) Zachary Anderson, University of Georgia Works Cited Zachary Anderson Review of Our Bearings 221 Chtcheglov, Ivan. Through its attention to the overlapping strata of time and human presence beneath the surface of the city’s grids, Our Bearings seeks to expose the ideologies inscribed in the concept of public space, since “[g]eography only illuminates for some” (25).


id: transmotion-164
author: Andrews, Scott
title: Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance (Mark Rifkin)
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 3
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summary:
  However, Rifkin describes the ways New York City in the 19th century “depends upon the continued displacement of Native peoples” (172) and is dependent upon the continued domination of the region’s native people, making this “queer urban liberation… a form of settler fantasy” (172). There he states that his project is different from Vizenor’s in Manifest Manners: Narratives in Postindian Survivance, but that his “discussion of tropes of Indianness owe a debt to [Vizenor’s] theorization of the ways figuration of Indianness substitute for (rather than point to) engagements with Native peoples and ‘the tribal real’” (198).


id: transmotion-1008
author: Gemmell, Kylie Nicole
title: nîtisânak (Jas M. Morgan)
date: 2021-08-11
pages: 4
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summary:
  While Indigenous communities historically did not have binary understandings of gender, they did not necessarily have what we know as trans bodies today. okay when your girlfriend gets violent when she’s drunk—mainly because I know that intimate partner violence somehow gets normalized within queer communities” (158).


id: transmotion-1109
author: Chabitnoy, Abigail
title: Creeland (Dallas Hunt)
date: 2023-01-29
pages: 5
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summary:
  That is, the relationships called and made manifest in poems. And at times Hunt’s poems are pointed, as when a poem of thanksgiving ends with the admonishment to “be clear that / trying is / not the/ same as / doing” (15) without breaking the persistent, percussive cadence by which poet and poems continue to beat.


id: transmotion-1000
author: Cunningham, Paul
title: Feed (Tommy Pico)
date: 2021-08-11
pages: 5
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summary:
  These lines were written by poet Tommy Pico long before January 6, 2021, the day former President Donald Trump incited violence during a so-called “Save America” rally by encouraging his supporters to “take back” their country and join him on a march to the Capitol. Microsoft Word - Paul Cunningham.docx Transmotion Vol 7, No 1 (2021) 252 Tommy Pico.


id: transmotion-189
author: Warburton, Theresa
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 4
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title:
  Howling for Justice: New Perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead (Rebecca Tillett, ed.)

summary:
  Clearly grounded in an exploration of how both critical and scholarly responses to Almanac have differed from Ceremony, Silko’s most widely-read and acclaimed work, this collection succeeds at diving head-first into some of the most controversial aspects of Silko’s text. As editor Rebecca Tillett notes in the introductory chapter, “given the gentle lyrical beauty of Silko’s first novel Ceremony (1977), which fed the expectations of readers and critics alike, Almanac unsurprisingly generated not only confusion but also a series of passionate and heated responses” (5).


id: transmotion-1072
author: Calcaterra, Angela
title: Firekeeper's Daughter (Angeline Boulley)
date: 2022-06-01
pages: 5
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summary:
  https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250766571/firekeepersdaughter Toward the end of Angeline Boulley’s riveting YA novel Firekeeper’s Daughter, Perry, the young cousin of protagonist Daunis Firekeeper, worries about her “auntie” Daunis going off to college. Though Daunis Firekeeper is Firekeeper’s Daughter’s unforgettable protagonist, I begin this review with her young relative’s capacity for power in relation to language and community because Daunis’s force as a character accumulates by way of relationality.


id: transmotion-182
author: Carlson, David
title: That Guy Wolf Dancing (Elizabeth Cook Lynn)
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 4
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summary:
  Philip repeatedly comments on “this college town a mere couple of hundred miles from the Crow Creek Reservation” (1), “this little college town not too far from the Rez” (14), or “this river town [the Vermillion River] with its state college” (34). Philip reinforces this sense of resistance explicitly in the book, both by referencing the Yankton Sioux Indians’ possession of land “for, some say, thousands of years” and by offering only the most limited cooperation with authorities investigating the death of the socialite (euthanized by her husband in the hospital) based on his understanding of Yankton treaty-rights.


id: transmotion-1102
author: Andrews, Tarren
date: 2023-01-29
pages: 5
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title:
  Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations Under Settler Siege (Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien)

summary:
  Editors Justice and O’Brien introduce the volume by pointing to the evergreen timeliness and urgency of conversations about Indigenous land dispossession, citing, in this moment, the immediacy of the McGirt decision (2020) in the United States, devastating fires in the Amazon, and the ongoing “settler siege” of the Wet’suwet’en and Sipekne’katik First Nations in occupied Canada (xii). The concise introduction summarizes settler attitudes that figure Indigenous land relations as “antiquated, primitive, antimodern, [and] impoverishing” (xiv) in ways that helpfully orient readers who are new to the topic of allotment and Indigenous dispossession.


id: transmotion-1018
author: Pyle, Kai; Jobin, Danne
title: Transgender, Two-Spirit and Nonbinary Indigenous Literatures
date: 2021-08-09
pages: 9
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summary:
  The interplay between Kai Minosh Pyle & Danne Jobin Introduction 8 trans-specificity and broader Indigenous contexts is one area that we might suggest as a fruitful starting point for future investigations of trans Indigenous literatures. While the scholarly origins of the current field of queer Indigenous studies are often dated to the 2011 publication of the anthology Queer Indigenous Studies and the 2010 special issue of GLQ titled Sexuality, Nationality, and Indigeneity, several years earlier in 2008 there had been a prior special issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures focusing on queer figures in Indigenous literature.


id: transmotion-206
author: Shuck, Kim
title: Going Home
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 13
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summary:
  Microsoft Word - Going Home (final).docx Transmotion Vol 1, No 2 (2015)       72 Going Home 2015 KIM SHUCK From above the ponds and Creeks and Rivers have gone Feral and hold hands I always forget how humid Oklahoma is, how, in the heat, the Tulsa airport is the tropics with wild aggressive plant smells. I write to silly people Transmotion Vol 1, No 2 (2015)       84 and to angry people and to willfully ignorant people.


id: transmotion-192
author: Van Alst, Theodore C
title: PoshRat? Whereto (Self) Publishing?
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 8
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summary:
  If you have some time to spend, go ahead and wiki that question for yourself; the leads you’ll get are fascinating.4 Quotes to note, though, include this one from a January 2011 Amazon press release: “Amazon.com is now selling more Kindle books than paperback books,”5 and (sad trombone) this one: The Big Six publishers became the Big Five on July 1, 2013, when the Penguin Random House merger was completed. 30. Frequently Asked Questions Regarding E-books and U.S. Libraries.


id: transmotion-198
author: Semple, Angela
title: REVIEW ESSAY: On Idle No More
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 8
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summary:
  As the events spread through cities, small towns, and Indigenous communities, it was clear that Indigenous peoples and our allies had simply been waiting for a spark to start the forest fire that became Idle No More. I choose to open this review by positioning myself as an “insider” when it comes to Indigenous people in Canada: an important starting point, as it has become well- accepted practice within Indigenous studies to acknowledge our positionality as writers, activists, scholars, and community members.


id: transmotion-161
author: Moore, David L
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 7
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title:
  REVIEW ESSAY: The Next Wave of Native American Writing? Off the Path: An Anthology of 21st Century Montana American Indian Writers (Adrian L. Jawort, ed.)

summary:
  Editor, publisher, and writer Adrian L. Jawort launched this series, Off the Path, with Vol. 1 as An Anthology of 21st Century Montana American Indian Writers. Going off the Path with Adrian Jawort.


id: transmotion-1058
author: Stoecklein, Mary
title: Winter Counts (David Heska Wanbli Weiden)
date: 2022-06-01
pages: 4
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summary:
  The only minor critique I have of Winter Counts revolves around some of the characterizations, like those of Virgil. Furthermore, the unanimous praise that Winter Counts has received suggests that this novel is a much bigger story than simply an entertaining read about Virgil investigating a supposed heroin ring on the reservation.


id: transmotion-1005
author: Grant, Deanne
title: Carry: A Memoir of Stolen Land (Toni Jensen)
date: 2021-12-15
pages: 3
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summary:
  Jensen engages the misleading simplicity of US violence through her love of language. The intended audience would be interested in making sense of the fundamental presence of violence across the US through the life story of a Métis woman who possesses a knack for drawing out meaning in the mundane normalcy and regularity of US violence.


id: transmotion-146
author: LeBlanc, Michael
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 2
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title:
  Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories: Truths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies (Adam Fortunate Eagle)

summary:
  Through the telling of stories, Fortunate Eagle shares the story of his life journey—in bits and pieces. Fortunate Eagle highlights the importance of family and kinship while he demonstrates the power of stories to entertain and teach.


id: transmotion-143
author: Vizenor, Gerald
title: The Unmissable: Transmotion in Native Stories and Literature
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 13
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summary:
  Yet the erudite taxonomies and literary practices of commercial literature weigh the obvious sense of natural motion, and empire names and doctrines become at times more significant than the irony and tropes of literary natural motion. Herman Melville is a master of the tropes of motion, and he creates an essential sense of visionary motion, or transmotion in almost every scene of Moby-Dick, but his mastery and perceptions of natural motion are more direct and descriptive in the chapter The Tail.


id: transmotion-150
author: Killelea, Patricia
title: Peace in Duress (Janet Rogers)
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 2
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summary:
  For these reasons, it is no wonder that Janet Rogers identifies as a spoken-word artist and maintains an active Soundcloud page devoted to experimental vocal-musical performances (Rogers, Janet Marie Rogers Stream on Soundcloud). Here, Rogers is a poet-warrior writing from the trenches, bearing witness to the epidemic of disappeared First Nations women in Move a Mountain (Walk a Mile in Her Shoes), which picks up the discourse of the Walking with Our Sisters activist campaign as the speaker darkly narrates, If we could really walk in her shoes/ [We’d be] running for our lives.


id: transmotion-165
author: Mackay, James
title: Halfling Spring: An internet romance (Joanne Arnott)
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 2
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summary:
  Possibly Arnott’s most successfully intertwined work yet, this collection delicately yet firmly brings First Nations poetry into a digital age, insisting on a continuing transmotion into a new (un)colonised space that nonetheless can be inscribed with traditional imagery. Not, thank goodness, the foul-mouthed Scottish politico, but rather a distinguished historian and anthropologist who has carried out extensive work for First Nations organisations including the Assembly of First Nations and the government of Nunavut.


id: transmotion-1048
author: Pehl, Emerson Parker
title: it was never going to be okay (jaye simpson)
date: 2021-12-15
pages: 5
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summary:
  simpson’s incredible ability to foster resonating feelings throughout this entire collection creates remarkable opportunities, particularly for queer Native foster children: to recognize themselves and their experiences as well to feel validated and in relation with other (queer) It is seemingly their decentering of self throughout their collection that provides an opportunity for queer Native foster children to recognize themselves through simpson’s poetry.


id: transmotion-136
author: Mackay, James; Carlson, David J.; Stirrup, David; Weaver, Laura Adams
title: Editorial
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 2
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summary:
  Microsoft Word - editorial.docx Transmotion       Vol  1,  No  1  (2015)         i   Editorial Gerald Vizenor has for over forty years been the voice of innovation in native literatures. We hope that, if nothing else, the founding of this journal will allow for new critical perspectives to complicate the reading of Native literatures.


id: transmotion-156
author: Glancy, Diane
title: A Flowing Stream: review essay for A Favor of Crows (Gerald Vizenor)
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 3
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summary:
  But haiku is sturdy enough in Vizenor’s hands to handle the hardness of the Texas terrain. The vibrancy of haiku lives in Vizenor’s new collection.


id: transmotion-1001
author: Williams, Alexander
title: Crooked Hallelujah (Kelli Jo Ford)
date: 2021-08-11
pages: 3
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summary:
  Ford’s text is a literary engagement with trauma’s elusive duality: the twisted darkness Justine’s family harbours is what both binds them together and keeps them hopelessly imprisoned. In the early parts of Ford’s novel, we are introduced to a young Justine entrenched in conflict; while navigating the oppressive nature of her community’s religion, she must reconcile being the victim of sexual violence and the shame following this trauma.


id: transmotion-196
author: Brown Spiers, Miriam
title: Tribal Television (Dustin Tahmahkera)
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 3
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summary:
  Relying on these sources to demonstrate both the positive and negative influences of television in general and sitcoms in particular, Tahmahkera contends that Native peoples can not only “critique popular culture’s contributions to colonialism,” It would be easy enough to distinguish between “good” and “bad” representations of Native people: on one side of the line would be episodes of I Love Lucy and The Flintstones that feature characters trying to defend themselves against “savages,” and on the other would be Mixed Blessings, the Aboriginal People’s Television Network (APTN) sitcom featuring Indigenous producers, writers, and actors.


id: transmotion-1063
author: Boxer, Majel
date: 2022-06-01
pages: 4
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title:
  Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century (Mathews and Snyder)

summary:
  For example, in the first theme of the text, “Scene Setting,” the reader is introduced to Osage ecology when Mathews writes, “The Osage is unique in its topography. Osage ecology is further explained in Mathews’ narrative #49, found in the second theme, Birds of the Osage, and titled “Hawk and Quail:


id: transmotion-183
author: Sayre, Gordon Mitchell
title: Histoire de la Nation Cherokee (Lionel Larré)
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
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words: 1383
sentence: 53
flesch: 48
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summary:
  It consists of thirteen expository chapters in French, interleaved with thirty-nine documents in English, excerpts from primary sources selected to illustrate Cherokee history. Francophone students will get an excellent education in Cherokee history from this book, and any reader of French can enjoy it as well.


id: transmotion-159
author: Bevacqua, Michael Lujan
title: REVIEW ESSAY: The Song Maps of Craig Santos Perez
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 5
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words: 2724
sentence: 125
flesch: 60
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summary:
  His use of “Guam Mentions” is particularly apt: instances, oftentimes ephemeral, momentary, or even slips Transmotion Vol 1, No 1 (2015)   86   of the tongue, where Guam is somehow, in some foreign context, invoked or mentioned. A common focus in his poetry is the commodifying aspects of Guam’s tourist economy and the dangerous realities of Guam being a strategically important base for the United States.


id: transmotion-187
author: Poremski, Karen M.
title: Wakpa Wanagi, Ghost River (Trevino Brings Plenty)
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1848
sentence: 71
flesch: 65
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summary:
  The book’s first section includes poems that feature the speaker’s past and childhood memories of the reservation, of his grandfather, and of learning the new geographies of post-Relocation life in the city—learning to eat fast food, staying in hotels. A number of poems in this fourth section of the book address questions of identity and blood quantum, perhaps suggesting that, as we turn to the future, these issues demand some sort of resolution, or at least acknowledgement.


id: transmotion-1105
author: Miranda, Jim V.
title: Sovereignty: The Biography of a Claim (Peter H. Russell)
date: 2023-01-29
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1667
sentence: 52
flesch: 36
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summary:
  This is especially evident in the fact that colonial practices predate European democratic reforms, which means Russell must return to the discursive justifications that denied Indigenous sovereignty, thus disrupting the historical trajectory established in the first four chapters. For Russell, this question spurred his investigation into European sovereignty and its dominance as a political instrument over Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.


id: transmotion-190
author: Alberts, Crystal K
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2223
sentence: 76
flesch: 53
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title:
  Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education and Report to the Department of the Interior: Poems (Diane Glancy)

summary:
  In the nearly ten years between that moment and the publication of Fort Marion, as she reveals in the three sections entitled “The Process of Writing” (and as is her general practice), Glancy Crystal K. Alberts Review of Fort Marion Prisoners and Report to the Department of the Interior 156 traveled the land—mostly by car and preferably alone—visiting the places where the prisoners had been held—Fort Sill, Fort Marion—absorbing the physical realities of those locations. In order to accomplish this, Glancy begins Fort Marion with an historical overview of the events, a partial list of prisoners, a stereograph of them in “native costume,” and a collective “they,” as the reader travels with the prisoners by train from Fort Sill to Fort Marion, stopping periodically to be paraded in front of the assembled crowds (Fort Marion 5).


id: transmotion-203
author: Weiden, David Heska Wanbli
title: Spork
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 8
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2820
sentence: 245
flesch: 90
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summary:
  Eugene froze. Eugene knew the Russians had dominated the field for years, but he’d always hoped to fly under their radar.


id: transmotion-1027
author: Low, Denise
title: DoveLion: A Fairy Tale for Our Times (Eileen R. Tabios)
date: 2023-01-29
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1132
sentence: 70
flesch: 57
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summary:
  She shows how the restoration of a continuous concept of time corrects the fallacy of linear time, where the past falls off the left-hand edge of the page and can be ignored (like nineteenth-century US treaties with Indigenous nations). Unspoken is the John Donne poem, “No man is an island,” but it is present nonetheless as all writings in all time exist simultaneously in Kapwa time.


id: transmotion-207
author: Stirrup, David
title: Author Biographies
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 465
sentence: 23
flesch: 55
cache: cache/transmotion-207.pdf
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summary:
  He is the author of Sovereign Selves: American Indian Autobiography and the Law (University of Illinois Press, 2006) and Imagining Sovereignty: The Discourse of Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature (forthcoming, University of Oklahoma Press, 2016). BILLY J. STRATTON (PhD, American Indian Studies—University of Arizona) is currently an assistant professor in the English department at the University of Denver.


id: transmotion-193
author: Viehmann, Martha L.
title: The Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Band (Frances Washburn)
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 752
sentence: 29
flesch: 61
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summary:
  Except for a few scenes during which the FBI agent speaks like a crime report and a few unnecessary details in the early chapters, the writing in Red Bird is both graceful and hilarious. We immediately want to know more about the kind of trouble in which the “gift or [...] curse” of “being a human wailing wall” entangles Sissy Roberts, and we want details about the death of Buffalo Ames (3-4).


id: transmotion-1014
author: Watchman, Renae
title: Review Essay: A Mind Spread Out on the Ground (Alicia Elliott)
date: 2021-08-11
pages: 9
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3463
sentence: 161
flesch: 52
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txt: txt/transmotion-1014.txt
summary:
  In grade two, Elliott realized her white skin could be weaponized against Indigeneity and she pretended not to be Native because of her New York classmates’ outright disdain for Indigenous peoples; 3) Catholicism vs. Long House teachings. Elliott captures the reality of generations of Indigenous people who, for a multitude of reasons, have had to leave their home communities for places that have deep Indigenous roots which are usually not well- known.


id: transmotion-1073
author: Diabo, Gage Karahkwiio
title: Review Essay: Little Books, Big Horror: Review of Night of Mannequins, Taaqtumi, and Anoka
date: 2023-01-29
pages: 8
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3400
sentence: 136
flesch: 60
cache: cache/transmotion-1073.pdf
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summary:
  In contrast with Taaqtumi¸ Cheyenne-Arapaho writer Shane Hawk’s inaugural collection of short stories, Anoka, is packed with supplementary material. Little Books, Big Horror 165 As preoccupied as it is with nostalgia and melancholy about the end of innocence, Mannequins ultimately shares less with King’s The Body or the aforementioned R.L. Stein series than it does with Jones’ own The Only Good Indians (2020).


id: transmotion-142
author: Glancy, Diane
title: Kansas
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 405
sentence: 69
flesch: 90
cache: cache/transmotion-142.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-142.txt
summary:
  In the early days, we traveled from Kansas City to my grandparent’s farm near Fulton. My moving life continued moving when my father’s transfers continued— 5. Kansas City, 6.


id: transmotion-162
author: Viehmann, Martha
title: The Road Back to Sweetgrass: a Novel (Linda LeGarde Grover)
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 986
sentence: 43
flesch: 63
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summary:
  Grover also tells stories about and from the perspective of others with ties to Mozhay Point, all of whom are essential “ingredients” in Margie’s life (11). It is a coming-into-maturity novel rather than a coming of age story.


id: transmotion-1061
author: Williams, Alexander
title: Brothers on Three (Abe Streep)
date: 2022-06-01
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1060
sentence: 38
flesch: 53
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summary:
  I could not write this review without listing the names of the “boys from Arlee” (53) who made Streep’s book possible: Alex Moran, Billy Fisher, Chase Gardner, Cody Tanner, Darshan Bolen, David “Tapit” Haynes, Greg Whitesell, Isaac Fisher, Ivory Brien, Lane Johnson, Lane Schall, Nate Coulson, Phil Malatare, Tyler Tanner, and Will Mesteth, Jr. After reading the number of times these boys ran seventeens until they puked, played games fresh off IV drips, and shouldered an entire reservation’s expectations on their backs, I feel an ethical responsibility to list these names in honor of the sacrifice they made in order to give their community hope. Brothers on Three’s dialectic purpose can best be described by a meditation Streep came to after speaking with John Malatare, father of Arlee star Phil Malatare: Over the coming years, when I got lost, when any concrete sense of time eluded me, or when I wondered what I was doing here, I came back to that: it was about Alexander Williams Review of Brothers on Three 236 these boys from Arlee.


id: transmotion-124
author: McGlennen, Molly S.
title: By My Heart: Gerald Vizenor's Almost Ashore and Bear Island: The War at Sugar Point
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 25
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 8107
sentence: 318
flesch: 44
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summary:
  It is within this setting that our conversation about how we view home (Minneapolis) and what that place means more broadly for Anishinaabe peoples began and continues. Ben has helped me think more critically about how Anishinaabe people unsettle and complicate urban and off-reservation life through various ways and practices, whether through ceremony, physical activity, creative Molly McGlennen “By My Heart”     2 expression, or alliance building.


id: transmotion-197
author: Castillo, Susan
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 684
sentence: 29
flesch: 39
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txt: txt/transmotion-197.txt
title:
  Indigenous Perspectives of North America (Eniko Sepsi, Judit Nagy, Miklos Vassanyi and Janos Kenyeres, eds)

summary:
  http://www.cambridgescholars.com/indigenous-perspectives-of-north-america On opening Indigenous Perspectives of North America, I had hoped to encounter essays written by indigenous scholars describing their perspectives on North American history, art and culture, as the title would seem to indicate. In the following section of the book, other essays stand out, such as Katalin Kurtosi’s nicely interdisciplinary “Indians and their Art: Emily Carr’s Imagery in Painting and in Writing,” and Emma Sanchez Montanes’s excellent study of representations of Susan Castillo Review of Indigenous Perspectives of North America   129   indigenous people in the accounts of the Malespina expedition at the end of the eighteenth century.


id: transmotion-147
author: Carlson, David J.
title: Imagining Geronimo: An Apache Icon in Popular Culture (William Clements)
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1224
sentence: 44
flesch: 39
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summary:
  This corpus of Geronimo stories identified by Clements thus comes across as one rich with potential for further analysis. It should be noted that, because of the nature of Clements’ project, there is a certain amount of unavoidable unevenness in Imagining Geronimo.


id: transmotion-151
author: Semple, Angela
title: Legacy (Waubgeshig Rice)
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1069
sentence: 36
flesch: 48
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summary:
  Rice courageously gives us an honest picture of Indigenous life in Ontario, from alcoholism, violence, racism, and tragedy, to the uplifting connections with language and land, honouring important Anishinaabe teachings by sharing them with his reader. For non-Indigenous readers, Rice allows a window into Indigenous life that resists stereotypes by actively acknowledging the inescapable truths of colonialism.


id: transmotion-1049
author: Howe, LeAnne
title: From Turtle Island to Gaza (David Groulx)
date: 2021-12-16
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1115
sentence: 58
flesch: 72
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summary:
  It is through this lens of bordering colonizers, war and reprisals, and the broken bodies of men and bird wings that David Groulx (Ojibwe Indian and French Canadian) drew inspiration from in his collection of 54 poems, From Turtle Island to Gaza. The Philistines occupied Gaza territories until she was captured by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE.


id: transmotion-1076
author: Perdieu, Zachary
date: 2023-01-27
pages: 35
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 8597
sentence: 323
flesch: 52
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title:
  A Bridge through Time: The Epistolary Form and Nonlinear Temporality in Stephen Graham Jones’s Ledfeather

summary:
  As a result of this fracturing, the “I-you” relationship falls away in this section and Dalimpere is dislodged from the “pivotal present tense” of the epistolary form, and instead navigates the textual space of this section as Saxon does—an evolution of epistolary narrative time which I will cover in greater depth shortly. As the novel progresses, however, the barriers between the two primary narrative timelines of Saxon and Dalimpere began to wane.


id: transmotion-1002
author: Gersie, Jenna
title: A History of My Brief Body (Billy-Ray Belcourt)
date: 2021-08-11
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 992
sentence: 36
flesch: 60
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summary:
  “An NDN Boyhood” shares family history; “Gay: 8 Scenes” traces Belcourt’s life from a closeted teen to falling in love for the first time to experiences on and after dating apps; “Fragments from a Half-Existence” offers pieces of novels that Belcourt has tried to write; “Robert” takes readers through a year of moments and messages. Yet as Belcourt notes, creative writing “traffics in ugly” (41)—and those moments that threaten the possibility of utopia are here too: communicating needs to an unsympathetic doctor after a nonconsensual experience, being followed by a straight white couple after Jenna Gersie Review of A History of My Brief Body 239 being spotted holding hands with a boyfriend, the heartbreak of falling in and out of love.


id: transmotion-188
author: Andrews, Jennifer
title: Indigenous Poetics in Canada (Neal McLeod, ed.)
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1283
sentence: 44
flesch: 38
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summary:
  Indigenous Poetics in Canada. http://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Catalog/mcleod-n.shtml There is poetic justice, to use a clichéd phrase, in the fact that just as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was beginning its closing events in Ottawa, blocks away on the campus of the University of Ottawa, Indigenous Poetics in Canada, edited by Neal McLeod, was awarded the 2014 ACQL Gabrielle Roy Prize for excellence in English language Canadian criticism.


id: transmotion-199
author: Gamber, John
title: Mediating Indianness (Cathy Covell Waegner, ed.)
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2656
sentence: 95
flesch: 43
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summary:
  This essay examines a variety of historical records and documents to demonstrate the specific ways that the United States’ settler narratives wield the images of Native leaders to signify “not only the tragic, yet inevitable, vanquishing of native American peoples but also the broader conquest of the North American John Gamber Review of Mediating Indianness 107 wilderness” (3). LaLonde’s essay, which begins with and incorporates many references to Native film, including the work of Sterlin Harjo serves as a well-placed transition to a series of essays engaging other films: Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man as examined by Christine Plicht and Chris Eyre’s movies, by Ludmila Martanovschi—each a tangible addition to the scholarship of these works.


id: transmotion-1106
author: Lush, Rebecca
title: White Magic (Elissa Washuta)
date: 2023-01-29
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 970
sentence: 41
flesch: 49
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summary:
  Another notable topic in the book is Washuta’s discussion of digital games Oregon Trail and Red Dead Redemption, which immerse the player in a narrative world to replay historical narratives (and traumas) from the nation’s past. Washuta may write about traumas, but she always resists narratives of victrimry and terminal creeds.


id: transmotion-160
author: Goeman, Mishuana
title: Creative Alliances: The Transnational Designs of Indigenous Women's Poetry (Molly McGlennen)
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1420
sentence: 49
flesch: 40
cache: cache/transmotion-160.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-160.txt
summary:
  This move to include Indigenous feminist scholars inside and outside of Native poets and literary scholarship would support her as she moves out into the specifics of how poetry upsets spatial and temporal logics in her next chapters. Best of all, she engages this task as a poet collaborating with the voices of other Indigenous women poets and is deliberate in her choice to take on a “poet- critic lens” in order to “forward more inclusive analytical models so to stave off the anthropologization and ownership that has often framed the work of Indigenous writers” (23).


id: transmotion-166
author: Twenter, Brian J.
title: Pointing with Lips: A Week in the Life of a Rez Chick (Dana Lone Hill)
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1655
sentence: 84
flesch: 73
cache: cache/transmotion-166.pdf
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summary:
  Microsoft Word - Twenter.docx Transmotion Vol 1, No 1 (2015) 113 Lone Hill, Dana. Lone Hill uses laughter as a setting for growing up Oglala Lakota on Pine Ridge.


id: transmotion-113
author: Madsen, Deborah L.
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 25
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 10564
sentence: 476
flesch: 50
cache: cache/transmotion-113.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-113.txt
title:
  The Sovereignty of Transmotion in a State of Exception: Lessons from the Internment of 'Praying Indians' on Deer Island, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1675-1676

summary:
  The concept of Native sovereignty in Vizenor's writing is both complex and simple, connected inseparably to his notions of “survivance” and “transmotion.” This conception of Native sovereignty, as articulated by Vizenor, has always been in conflict with the claims to sovereignty made by settler-colonial authorities: not only the federal US government but, much earlier, those colonial governments and the European Crowns they served that initiated the symbolic economy of “Indianness” that Jodi Byrd addresses.


id: transmotion-184
author: Martínez-Falquina, Silvia
title: Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain (Nancy E. van Deusen)
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2093
sentence: 62
flesch: 41
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summary:
  Evoking Arjun Appadurai’s neologism ethnoscape, van Deusen coins the term indioscape, which refers Silvia Martínez-Falquina Review of Global Indios 115 to the high mobility of indios and their lack of connection to a given place in order “to argue that indio identities were no longer spatially bound or culturally homogeneous, but rather transimperially present in the imaginations of those slaves and masters whose own ‘local’ experiences […] were mirrored against the experiences of other slaves and masters” (12). As part of the massive inter-American forced migration in the period—at least 650,000 indigenous people were victims of the lucrative transatlantic indigenous slave trade that started in the 1490s—van Deusen discovers that more than two thousand indios reached the Spanish kingdom of Castile.


id: transmotion-191
author: Gamily, Nanette
title: The Faster Redder Road (Stephen Graham Jones)
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1067
sentence: 51
flesch: 61
cache: cache/transmotion-191.pdf
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summary:
  The Faster Redder Road: the Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones. Microsoft Word - Gamily.docx Transmotion Vol 1, No 2 (2015) 166 Stephen Graham Jones; ed.


id: transmotion-1031
author: Stirrup, David
title: Editorial
date: 2021-08-14
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 516
sentence: 22
flesch: 60
cache: cache/transmotion-1031.pdf
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summary:
  David Stirrup August 2021 David Carlson Theodore C. Van Alst James Mackay Bryn Skibo-Birney --- As a reminder to our readers, Transmotion is open access, thanks to the generous sponsorship of the University of Kent: all content is fully available on the open internet with no paywall or institutional access required, and it always will be.


id: transmotion-208
author: Stirrup, David; Mackay, James; Carlson, David J.; Weaver, Laura Adams
title: Editorial
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 915
sentence: 26
flesch: 40
cache: cache/transmotion-208.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-208.txt
summary:
  Nevertheless, they fold Canterbury, Gravesend, and Kent more generally, into the multiply storied world of Vizenor’s fiction—part of a transnational landscape that threads connections between the lakes and woodlands of the Midwestern USA, France, China, Japan, and more. The War at Sugar Point,’ Molly McGlennen takes specific starting points in linguistic, historical, and geographic locations to analyze the conceptions of nationhood Vizenor’s recent poetry constructs that, while forging a distinct—and distinctly Anishinaabe—sense of nationhood, resists the hierarchical and dichotomous archetypes that term connotes.


id: transmotion-157
author: Brown, Kirby
title: Progressive Traditions: Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture (Joshua B. Nelson)
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2578
sentence: 58
flesch: 9
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txt: txt/transmotion-157.txt
summary:
  That it ties this project to an ethical mandate ultimately designed to extricate Cherokee communities from settler-logics of elimination by drawing our attention to the multiple forms and strategies of association practiced throughout Cherokee history situates Progressive Traditions alongside some of the more exciting, innovative, and provocative work currently taking place in the field. Contextualized within a larger history of women finding agency and asserting political influence through educational and religious institutions, as well as a Cherokee communities openly soliciting religious missions as a strategy to establish educational infrastructure, Nelson convincingly argues that Brown’s “improvised” synthesis of Christian theology with Cherokee practices of dreaming, open air worship and prayer, fasting, and purification, evidences an explicitly gendered, distinctly Cherokee practice of Christianity.


id: transmotion-1064
author: Ami, Christine
date: 2022-05-31
pages: 9
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3078
sentence: 168
flesch: 64
cache: cache/transmotion-1064.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-1064.txt
title:
  Review Essay: The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature (Esther G. Belin, Jeff Berglund, Connie A. Jacobs, Anthony Webster, and Sherwin Bitsui, eds.)

summary:
  If The Diné Reader proposes to engross readers to and by way of Diné thought through creative writing, this would necessitate a change to their centering direction beyond the inclusion of excluded voices.” Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Thup I placed this tremendous exposition of Diné voices aside, removed the red material covering my loom, picked up my baton, and carefully opened pockets of rain.


id: transmotion-219
author: Johnson, Emily
title: Blackfish
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 936
sentence: 74
flesch: 96
cache: cache/transmotion-219.pdf
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summary:
  About their survival through the harshest conditions; laying in buckets in homes, away from the deep, cold habitat of river and mud. They exist to live in rivers, and buckets, and bellies.


id: transmotion-205
author: White, Robin
title: Métis: Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood (Chris Andersen)
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3098
sentence: 116
flesch: 42
cache: cache/transmotion-205.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-205.txt
summary:
  The ambiguity within government Census categorizations is a result of exclusively classifying Métis people as a race rather than as a Nation for the purposes of assimilation into Canadian nationalism, at the expense of the development of the Métis Nation. What is crucial in this judgement is the fact that the Court passed into law a definition of Métis peoples which was, in effect, based on a racialized colonial mandate; no real distinction was made between Métis from the historical Homelands and peoples of Indian/non-Indian descent.


id: transmotion-163
author: Arvin, Maile
title: Voices of Fire: Reweaving the Literary Lei of Pele and Hi'iaka (kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui)
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1516
sentence: 45
flesch: 41
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summary:
  In terms of coverage, for example, the book’s first chapter provides an extremely comprehensive but succinct overview of Kanaka Maoli history, which (unlike many conventional historical accounts of Hawaiʻi) highlights the continuous existence of Kanaka ʻŌiwi (synonymous with Kanaka Maoli, Native Hawaiian) resistance to colonization through to the present day. Thus, rather than seek one definitive version of the Pele and Hiʻiaka narrative, Voices of Fire masterfully shows that debates and divergences were honored by Kanaka Maoli authors.


id: transmotion-270
author: Carlson, David J.; Van Alst, Theodore C.; Mackay, James; Stirrup, David
title: Editorial
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 934
sentence: 30
flesch: 41
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summary:
  We are also pleased to be able to feature an increasingly broad range of literary scholarship and creative work. Miriam Brown Spiers’s essay, “Reimagining Resistance: Achieving Sovereignty in Indigenous Science Fiction,” employs a theoretically sophisticated approach to genre in unpacking what is rapidly becoming a canonical work of contemporary native fiction, Blake Hausman’s Riding the Trail of Tears.


id: transmotion-179
author: Ryan, Allan J.
title: Trickster Discourse in Narrative Chance: How Gerald Vizenor Helped Shape My Life in Academia
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 19
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summary:
  While annoyed, I agreed to the change, on the understanding that there would be no further tampering with the text.14 Again, without my knowledge, Gerald Vizenor brought The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art to the attention of the Before Columbus Foundation who recognized it with an American Book Award in 2000 for its contribution to multicultural literature.15 I was deeply honored by this award since Gerald’s novel, Griever: An American Monkey King in China, had received that same recognition in 1988. Gerald’s engaging presentation remains a high point in the history of the New Sun Conference.26 At the close of the conference, Gerald was invited back to the podium for a special presentation by Carleton’s Word Warrior Society, a group of Native and non-Native students whose name derives from a chapter title and uncited quotation from Gerald Vizenor in Dale Turner’s book, This Is Not A Peace Pipe:


id: transmotion-278
author: Grover, Linda LeGarde
title: Weweni
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 2
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sentence: 50
flesch: 59
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summary:
  the poems can be read in native language first and then in English language on the opposite page. In these poems Noodin shows skill in using a lyricism grounded in the fluidity of that concept: there are myriad meanings and complexities of Anishinaabe language.


id: transmotion-267
author: Carlson, Andrea
title: Curatorial
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 4
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sentence: 70
flesch: 65
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summary:
  Resistance is near the outer edge of some greater formation and resistance is the skin of our cause. Sometimes this practice is considered art making and it has value.


id: transmotion-1041
author: Premoli, Martin
title: Indigeneity and the Anthropocene
date: 2021-11-17
pages: 26
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sentence: 332
flesch: 38
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summary:
  His formulation of Indigenous climate change studies is supported by three basic tenets. The Yukon example thus illuminates the promising potential of Indigenous climate change studies, and it illustrates the central role that Indigenous self-determination must play in planning for climate change adaptation.


id: transmotion-200
author: Nason, Dory
title: My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Life and Labor on the Reservation (Brenda Child)
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
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words: 1817
sentence: 52
flesch: 43
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summary:
  Characteristic of Child’s ability to beautifully weave Naynaabeak’s story about her efforts to gain a fishing permit to fish where she always has into a larger narrative of both women and Ojibwe labor history, Child writes, “In Ojibwe culture, water was a gendered space where women possessed property rights, which they demonstrated through their long-standing practice of binding rice together . . For Child, she chooses to tell the story of the reservation after the storm as “the place where Ojibwe labor was reorganized and redefined” (3), a choice that brings into focus the determination, strength and tough decisions that Ojibwe families faced as their homeland was remade along with their relationships to it, to work and to each other.


id: transmotion-111
author: Bauerkemper, Joseph
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 22
extension: .pdf
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words: 8353
sentence: 521
flesch: 42
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title:
  The White Earth Constitution, Cosmopolitan Nationhood, and the Fruitful Ironies of Relational Sovereignty

summary:
  Through the variously diplomatic and exploitative relations shared by Native nations and the United States, both are currently compromised sovereigns. As we well know, Native nations in the United States have been severely curtailed and violated in their intertwined political, legal, cultural, economic, and ecological dimensions.


id: transmotion-213
author: Yazzie, Rhiana
title: An open letter about the premiere of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson in Minneapolis
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 7
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3003
sentence: 143
flesch: 66
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summary:
  Microsoft Word - Yazzie galley main.docx Transmotion Vol 2, Nos 1&2 (2016)   5   An open letter about the premiere of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson in Minneapolis from Rhiana Yazzie RHIANA YAZZIE EDITOR’S NOTE: Co-produced with the Hennepin Theatre Trust, Minneapolis Musical Theatre ran Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson from June 6 – June 29, 2014 at the New Century Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota. On June 6th, 2014, Minneapolis Musical Theatre opens Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, a co-production with the Hennepin Theatre Trust.


id: transmotion-194
author: Wieser, Kimberly Gail
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 7
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3484
sentence: 133
flesch: 56
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title:
  REVIEW ESSAY: Reshaping American Indian Autobiography in Elissa Washuta’s My Body is a Book of Rules

summary:
  Despite this bravado, Washuta grapples, with cultural marginality and low Kimberly Wieser Review of My Body is a Book of Rules 94 blood quantum and tries to reconcile these with her federal recognized status as she comes to terms with her identity, taking control of her colonized Indian body as she takes control of her raped female body through language. Washuta has had enough narratives constructed by others attempt to control who she is or who she “should” be.


id: transmotion-238
author: Carlson, David
title: Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
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words: 1941
sentence: 75
flesch: 51
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summary:
  Anyone interested in broadening their understanding of California Indian poetry or in changing the nature of the critical narratives that we tell about indigenous California today will find Red Indian Road West to be a valuable source of inspiration and pleasure. Red Indian Road West:


id: transmotion-1077
author: Premoli, Martin
title: Introduction: Indigeneity, Survival, and the Colonial Anthropocene
date: 2022-05-10
pages: 9
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sentence: 116
flesch: 40
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summary:
  And through their engagement with Indigenous storytelling, these essays posit new, vital directions for imagining Indigenous climate justice in the Anthropocene. This entails calling upon Indigenous peoples to work as teachers and leaders within educational contexts, and urging non-Indigenous allies to educate Martin Premoli Introduction 8 themselves on how they might best ensure Indigenous resurgence, futurity, and “collective continuance.”


id: transmotion-241
author: Miller, Douglas
title: Burying the (Uncle) Tomahawk
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2652
sentence: 129
flesch: 49
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summary:
  Indian activism historiography, with few exceptions, has long privileged Dennis Banks, Russell Means, and Clyde Warrior, at the expense of a greater appreciation for Indian activists of a different stripe. Clyde Warrior: Tradition, Community, and Red Power.


id: transmotion-401
author: Mackay, James
title: Review of The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America
date: 2017-07-31
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1611
sentence: 59
flesch: 49
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summary:
  Violence is significantly more likely to play a part in the rape of Native American women, and, uniquely to American Indians, it is more likely to be perpetrated by someone of a different race to the perpetrator. She begins with the story of “a young, blind Coos woman” known as Amanda, who was forced by the US cavalry to undertake a nearly 100 mile walk barefoot as part of the ethnic cleansing of the territory now known as Oregon, then takes the reader through a fast-paced pocket history of commercial sexual exploitation of Native women in the past couple of centuries – in boarding schools, as means to Osage oil wealth, as exploitation of their control of commodities by reservation Indian Agents.


id: transmotion-388
author: Horton, Jessica
title: Review of Edgar Heap of Birds
date: 2017-07-31
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1904
sentence: 58
flesch: 32
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summary:
  Microsoft Word - Horton.docx Transmotion Vol 3, No 1 (2017)   190   Review of Bill Anthes, Edgar Heap of Birds, Duke University Press, 2015. Nonetheless, art historian Jane Blocker’s endorsement on the back of the book rings true: “So often we fail to look carefully at or describe the works of Native Jessica L. Horton Review of Edgar Heap of Birds   191   American artists in depth, but tend instead to look through them to some plane of political meaning to which they presumably grant passage.”


id: transmotion-439
author: Van Alst, Theodore C.; Carlson, David J.; Mackay, James; Stirrup, David
title: Editorial
date: 2017-12-06
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 655
sentence: 17
flesch: 39
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summary:
  Theodore C. Van Alst November 2017 David J. Carlson James Mackay David Stirrup Within a basket though, Brings Plenty reminds us is a weaving of links and DNA in other kinds of captivity, the ones no NAGPRA act can loosen.


id: transmotion-408
author: Groulx, David
title: Lockbolted Letters to Turbo
date: 2017-12-06
pages: 7
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words: 2142
sentence: 138
flesch: 91
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summary:
  And there are more White guys on the other dorms, although the entire jail is mostly Native, we got the least amount of White guys (I guess we haven’t met our quota). Mostly though I think it’s just respecting yourself and other inmates, privacy and property; making noise after lights out, snoring is another one that might get you punched out.


id: transmotion-1140
author: Stratton, Billy J.
date: 2023-01-29
pages: 13
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words: 3683
sentence: 226
flesch: 84
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title:
  A Conversation with Stephen Graham Jones: Horror, Weird Fiction and the Way of Slashers, with Sopapillas for Dessert.

summary:
  Stratton & Jones “A Conversation with Stephen Graham Jones” 156 Jones: If we look at The Fast Red Road, The Bird is Gone and Ledfeather as three books in a series, I do see the first two as more in the realm of weird fiction, but Ledfeather is where I was . . . Since 2016, all my book contracts have been for horror novels, which is fine with me as I love writing horror, but I wonder if I would’ve been in that corner in 2005 or 2006 and by 2015 I would’ve been trying to break out and push out of those walls.


id: transmotion-1007
author: Ziarkowska, Joanna
title: Cherishing the Impaired Land
date: 2022-05-10
pages: 24
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 7237
sentence: 387
flesch: 48
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summary:
  In this essay I am interested in the value that Gwen Westerman’s poetry ascribes to Indigenous Knowledge (IK) as a way to understand and react to environmental changes and preserve Dakota values in these new contexts. I believe that the most significant consequence of addressing the ecological state of the twenty-first-century world with Indigenous Knowledge is a disruption of the Anthropocene narratives which identify humankind as the sole agent of change, the sole author of its scientific explanation, and finally, the possible solution to the problem.


id: transmotion-262
author: Twenter, Brian J
title: Lakota Emergence
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3515
sentence: 150
flesch: 58
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summary:
  The on- line Lakota Emergence exhibit begins like any of the museum or travelling installations, with Tanyan Yahi, “welcome, I am glad you have arrived safely,” which briefly explains the creation of the exhibit and its various parts. In this way, Lakota Emergence, has become a part of the Lakota tiyospaye, “community.”


id: transmotion-1085
author: Gamber, John
date: 2023-01-27
pages: 33
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 11884
sentence: 615
flesch: 67
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title:
  W(h)ere There’s a Wolf, There’s a Way: Lupine Masculinities in Mongrels and Where the Dead Sit Talking

summary:
  And that telling, or not telling, of werewolf stories or secrets lies central to Jones’ novel. In short, there is a long-established precedent of the ways that Native stories carry both power and message, what we might teach in our literature classes as the “theme” of a work.


id: transmotion-448
title: Untitled Document
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mime: application/xhtml+xml
words: 109
sentence: 5
flesch: 60
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summary:
  Untitled Document Jordan Abel is a Nisga’a experimental poet whose work with techniques of cut-up, erasure and found text marks him out as an entirely original voice in First Nations writing. At the same time, Abel’s work engages deeply with both traditional methodologies and contemporary themes of being an Indigenous writer in a majority-settler society.


id: transmotion-1090
author: Turner, Alison
title: Photos in Transmotion: Images of Survivance in Ledfeather
date: 2023-01-27
pages: 26
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 8215
sentence: 406
flesch: 64
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summary:
  After situating Gerald Vizenor’s framing of “the indian [as] poselocked in portraiture” in histories of photography and Indigenous colonization, I illustrate through postcards archived at the Montana Historical Society how indian images work symbiotically with written text (146). Photographs contribute to the complex structure of Ledfeather as objects in the narrative in three forms: ID cards, postcards, and snapshots.1 Gerald Vizenor describes Transmotion Vol. 8, No. 2 (2022) 3 the expectations for permanence and accuracy in photographs as indian images, which can exist in the same space as photos that are in transmotion, moving stories of native survivance.2 Indian images, which Vizenor also describes as simulations, are produced for viewers who are not native as “public evidence of dominance, not the private stories of survivance” (157).


id: transmotion-365
author: Gercken, Becca
title: The Red Wall-paper: Reservation Policy, The Dawes Act, and Gilman's Literature of Argument
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 10
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 4125
sentence: 148
flesch: 55
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summary:
  The narrator’s interaction with the few people in the house, her husband John, her sister- in-law and caretaker Jane, and her nanny Mary, reinforces Gilman’s red reading argument against the oppressive nature of federal Indian policy and the legacy of the Marshall Trilogy in particular. Indians cannot be left alone with their dangerous and fascinating temperaments; they must follow the guidelines established by federal Indian policy and enforced by Indian agents.


id: transmotion-180
author: Greymorning, Neyooxet
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1175
sentence: 40
flesch: 54
cache: cache/transmotion-180.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-180.txt
title:
  Arapaho Stories, Songs, and Prayers a Bilingual Anthology (Andrew Cowell, Alonzo Moss, Sr. and  William J. C'Hair eds)

summary:
  http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/1891/arapaho%20stories%20%20song s%20%20and%20prayers Arapaho Stories, Songs, and Prayers continues the collaborative work of linguist Andrew Cowell and Arapaho scholar Alonzo Moss along with the added knowledge and language skills of William C’Hair. Arapaho Stories, Songs and Prayers, has been divided into several sections that cross cut important aspects of Arapaho culture and society through various examples, analysis and discussions of creation stories, lessons derived from Nih’oo3oo (trickster) stories, legends and anecdotal stories, speeches, prayers, and songs.


id: transmotion-115
author: Stewart, Paul
title: Vizenor and Beckett: Postmodern Identifications
date: 2015-04-13
pages: 15
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words: 6542
sentence: 345
flesch: 62
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summary:
  The final sentence is an amalgam of Beckett texts: “We must go on” echoes the “I can’t go on, I’ll go on” which closes The Unnamable, whilst “nothing to be done” is a refrain from Waiting for Godot, initially made in reference to Estragon’s ill-fitting boots, but also later used in reference to Vladimir’s hat. Microsoft Word - 115-710-1-CE.doc Transmotion Vol 1, No 1 (2015) 48 Vizenor and Beckett: Postmodern Identifications PAUL STEWART “The danger is in the neatness of identifications.”


id: transmotion-279
author: Stirrup, David
title: Contributor biographies
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
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words: 1255
sentence: 53
flesch: 46
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summary:
  Her career took root in Minneapolis, Minnesota where she earned a BA from the University of Minnesota in 2003 in Art and American Indian Studies and an MFA in Visual Studies from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2005. His research interests include ecocriticism, American Indian, Asian American, African American, and Chicana/o and Latina/o literatures.


id: transmotion-276
author: Fletcher, Matthew L.M.
title: Imagining Sovereignty: Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1560
sentence: 84
flesch: 44
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summary:
  Powerful people listened when a tribal leader audaciously declared tribal sovereignty. Tribal leaders will sometimes say that tribal sovereignty means the tribal power to make tribal mistakes, and to learn from those mistakes and correct them with tribal solutions.


id: transmotion-461
author: Ebeid, Dalia
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1305
sentence: 83
flesch: 65
cache: cache/transmotion-461.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-461.txt
title:
  The World Is One Place: Native American Poets Visit the Middle East (eds Diane Glancy and Linda Rodriguez)

summary:
  His mind transports him to Philadelphia, where the same propensity to forget the atrocities committed against Native peoples also lingers. The efforts to identify their origins convey the power and dominance of mainstream Western cultural exports of Native peoples.


id: transmotion-217
author: Glancy, Diane
title: TOTEM: A Subjective and Creative Interpretation of Gerald Vizenor’s Trickery
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1288
sentence: 143
flesch: 73
cache: cache/transmotion-217.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-217.txt
summary:
  This paper was delivered on a panel, Honoring Gerald Vizenor, Post-Indian Poses, at the 2016 MLA conference in Austin, Texas. The paper is sur-scholarship (outside scholarship) because Vizenor is a sur-writer.


id: transmotion-346
author: Meland, Carter
title: It Consumes What It Forgets
date: 2017-12-06
pages: 13
extension: .pdf
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words: 5429
sentence: 250
flesch: 65
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summary:
  The wiindigoo experience is horrifying, but wiindigoo stories are instructive engagements in cultural teaching. Like all stories about the manidoo, wiindigoo stories offer powerful tools to advance one’s understanding of the world.


id: transmotion-1039
author: Warren, Hannah V
title: Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride (Sy Hoahwah)
date: 2021-12-15
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1514
sentence: 74
flesch: 54
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txt: txt/transmotion-1039.txt
summary:
  https://unmpress.com/books/ancestral-demon-grieving-bride/9780826362216 In a poem aptly named “Biography,” Sy Hoahwah writes, “As a child, father told me I hatched out of a pearl partially dissolved in wine. In her blurb for Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride, Heid E. Erdrich writes, “Sy Hoahwah has perhaps invented Comanche goth.”


id: transmotion-1139
author: Stratton, Billy J.
title: On the Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones and the Stories that Made Him, and well, Us Too
date: 2023-01-29
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1771
sentence: 40
flesch: 41
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summary:
  Billy J. Stratton “On the Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones” iv With vital relevance to this current work, my first encounter with the writing of Stephen Graham Jones was in a graduate course I took on native fiction around 2004. The sheer number of awards Jones has received since 2017 is itself remarkable, but what makes these accomplishments even more impressive is the diverse range of genres and literary categories for which the excellence of Jones’ work has been recognized.


id: transmotion-248
author: Lacho, David Dennison; Leon, Aaron
title: “Please mom? Can you please download it at home?”: Video Games as a Symbol of Linguistic Survivance
date: 2017-07-31
pages: 20
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 7078
sentence: 441
flesch: 58
cache: cache/transmotion-248.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-248.txt
summary:
  Within the context of the growing movement of Indigenous video games, the Splatsin Tsm7aksaltn (Splatsin Teaching Centre) of the Splatsin First Nation have decided to create a video game in order to revitalize their language and culture. Can you please download it at home?”: Video Games as a Symbol of Linguistic Survivance DAVID DENNISON LACHO & AARON LEON Recently, there has been an increase in video games that are made by or in collaboration with Indigenous people, for example Elizabeth LaPensée’s Survivance,


id: transmotion-445
author: Kroes, Rob
title: Lakota Performers in Europe: Their Culture and the Artefacts They Left Behind
date: 2017-12-06
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1073
sentence: 43
flesch: 57
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summary:
  One is left wondering how a man like Mark Twain, a powerful voice in the international protest against Belgian King Leopold’s reign of terror in his Congo colony, could at the same time ignore domestic atrocity visited upon native American Indians. Yet there they were, Lakota performers in traveling Wild West shows.


id: transmotion-402
author: Stirrup, David
title: Contributor biographies
date: 2017-07-31
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1034
sentence: 48
flesch: 50
cache: cache/transmotion-402.pdf
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summary:
  Her gaming interests have followed the technology trajectory beginning in the 1950’s with card games, board games, role-playing, puzzles, neighborhood games such as Kick The Can, and pick-up ball games. Her areas of focus are indigenous video games and oceanic mobility.


id: transmotion-494
author: Delgado, Francisco
title: Full Metal Indigiqueer (Joshua Whitehead)
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1225
sentence: 45
flesch: 53
cache: cache/transmotion-494.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-494.txt
summary:
  The fierce retrieval of Cree upends colonialist thinking that indigenous languages are nonsensical and irrelevant in today’s world. Although cyborg discourse, as well as the posthumanism that it is often associated with, do not immediately seem relevant to concerns about indigenous sovereignty and language revitalization, Whitehead’s work shows that cyborg and trickster discourses are not only compatible but are in fact perfectly matched.


id: transmotion-389
author: Rasmussen, Birgit Brander
title: Review of Reading the Wampum: Essays on Hodinöhsö:ni’ Visual Code and Epistemological Recovery
date: 2017-07-31
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2214
sentence: 65
flesch: 32
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txt: txt/transmotion-389.txt
summary:
  Leaving aside the spiritual properties of wampum as the domain of properly appointed Faithkeepers, Kelsey offers a secular analysis of wampum teachings in classic belts and contemporary narrative, nothing that “wampum belts are fundamentally related to other records of Iroquois visual code, and they have an intrinsically politically-charged content, as wampum belts were the method that Hodinöhsö:ni’ chiefs and clan mothers used to record international diplomacy and treaty agreements initially with tribal nations and thereafter with settler governments as well” (xiii). Museums and archives, residential and boarding schools in the US and Canada have played a historic role in this epistemic warfare and Kelsey makes a vital argument for the importance of rematriation of wampum belts and other cultural patrimony, seeing “the engagement of wampum imagery and narrative by contemporary Hodinöhsö:ni’ authors” as part of the movement to repatriate “their wisdom and their epistemic record” (xvii).


id: transmotion-239
author: Gamber, John
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3532
sentence: 134
flesch: 38
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txt: txt/transmotion-239.txt
title:
  Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration and Masculindians: Conversations about Indigenous Manhood

summary:
  Innes and Anderson note in their introductory essay, “there is little activism or political will to address Indigenous men’s issues, and as a result there are very few policies or social programs designed for Indigenous men, including those who are trans-identified, as well as women who identify with Indigenous masculinities” (3). Of these groups the authors find a “picture that shows how the vicious cycle of toxic Indigenous masculinity is externally imposed on Indigenous men and then internalized and passed on to other men, while at the same time being reinfornced by society” (300).


id: transmotion-1016
author: Tatonetti, Lisa
title: Joyful Embodiment
date: 2021-08-09
pages: 30
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 9514
sentence: 476
flesch: 58
cache: cache/transmotion-1016.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-1016.txt
summary:
  After his physical shifts manifest and he enters Francine’s as a man Valerio comments, “These women will abide my presence, but they will no longer welcome me” (The Transmotion Vol 7, No 1 (2021) 22 Testosterone Files 150). This Bridge We Call Home, Valerio, now Max Wolf Valerio, discusses his transition and returns to autobiography.


id: transmotion-502
author: Carlson, David
title: How a Mountain Was Made (Greg Sarris)
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1192
sentence: 43
flesch: 52
cache: cache/transmotion-502.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-502.txt
summary:
  Each of its sixteen chapters is framed and introduced by conversations between Question Woman and Answer Woman, twin crows and daughters of Coyote, who engage in the on-going work of co-creation through their deeply reciprocal relationship. And new readers should appreciate his skillful ventriloquism of Question Woman and Answer Woman and the great care he has taken to highlight the profundity that resides in the stories that continue to create and map the Miwok homeland.


id: transmotion-223
author: McLaughlin, Olena
title: Native Pop: Bunky Echo-Hawk and Steven Paul Judd Subvert Star Wars
date: 2017-12-06
pages: 23
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 9202
sentence: 526
flesch: 56
cache: cache/transmotion-223.pdf
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summary:
  One might wonder why Native American artists chose to employ Star Wars in their work. Rader defines “engaged resistance” as Indigenous acts of communication and expression through written, spoken, or visual language, which control the depiction of identity and creation of Native image and destiny by linking them to Native cultures, beliefs, and histories (179).


id: transmotion-509
author: Weaver, Hilary Noel
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
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words: 1056
sentence: 63
flesch: 50
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title:
  Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley (Sarah Marie Wiebe)

summary:
  https://www.ubcpress.ca/everyday-exposure Aamjiwnaang First Nation, home to 850 Anishinaabek people, is in a perpetual state of alert. Aamjiwnaang First Nation is surrounded by Chemical Valley, Canada’s densest concentration of petrochemical plants.


id: transmotion-280
author: Schweninger, Lee
title: Native Women and Land: Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence
date: 2016-11-29
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1785
sentence: 62
flesch: 46
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summary:
  However inadvertently the potential for this type of removal has come about, the result is that once again Native communities suffer land loss and are potentially forced to relocate. Analysis in these final chapters, following chapters devoted to literary analysis, demonstrates that it can be profitable to look to community and social media texts as well as conventional literary texts to recognize and appreciate that, as Fitzgerald maintains, “land dispossession, environmental crises, and federal Indian law are deeply entwined” (21).


id: transmotion-1075
author: Barnes, Emma
date: 2022-05-10
pages: 31
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 9539
sentence: 475
flesch: 51
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title:
  Critiquing Settler-colonial Conceptions of ‘Vulnerability’ through Kaona in Mary Kawena Pūku’i’s Mo’olelo, “The Pounded Water of Kekela”.

summary:
  now weaponises gendered vulnerability to climate change to perpetuate the colonial myth that Indigenous women need to be “instructed, led and managed” (Fordham et al 8) and prevents Pacific Island women from leading adaptation strategies to drought and disaster management. Like Pūku’i, George and McLeod et al. (“Lessons”; “Raising”) demonstrate that Pacific Islander women are not vulnerable to drought due to an inability to respond, as it is clear that Indigenous women have been responding for centuries.


id: transmotion-1095
author: Schoonover, Madelyn
title: The Sentence (Louise Erdrich)
date: 2023-01-29
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1990
sentence: 86
flesch: 55
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summary:
  As is also common in Erdrich’s works, Indigenous identity is not prescriptive, and every character comes to find their peace in different ways: Pollux through traditional arts and ceremony; Hetta through participating in protests; Asema the bookkeeper through protest but also through academic research into history; and Louise Erdrich, who is a character herself, through writing. Erdrich connects the individual haunting of the fictional Tookie by the fictional Flora to the greater haunting of the real United States and to the need to remember in order to find balance.


id: transmotion-432
title: Red Pens, White Paper: Wider Implications of Coulthard’s Call to Sovereignty
date: 2017-12-06
pages: 18
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 7502
sentence: 302
flesch: 46
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author:
  Burkhart, Brian; Carlson, David J.; Stratton, Billy J.; Van Alst, Theodore C.; Warrior, Carol Edelman

summary:
  Coulthard addresses these questions in part, saying: “Indigenous peoples tend to view their resurgent practices of cultural self-recognition and empowerment as permanent features of our decolonial political projects, not transitional ones.” What about figures like Gerald Vizenor, or N. Scott Momaday, or George Morrison, whose work suggests how indigenous writing, art, and theory can redefine modernism, and by extension “modernity,” Burkhart et al “Red Pens, White Paper” 118 an important topic indeed for indigenous peoples who continue to be disadvantaged by the discourses of western temporality.


id: transmotion-220
author: Wahpeconiah, Tammy
title: “An Evening’s Curiosity”: Image and Indianness in James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 20
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 8713
sentence: 425
flesch: 58
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summary:
  Moreover, as Charging Elk moves outside of the myth, he ceases to exist for the American ambassadors Archibald Atkins and Franklin Bell. We see Charging Elk move from feeling “happy” (197), to feeling “uneasy” (198), to feeling “confused” (199), and finally, to feeling “strong” and “light” (202).


id: transmotion-409
author: Noodin, Margaret
title: Nokaa-Zagaakwa’on Gaawiin Zagaakwasiiaag: Tender Buttons Unfastened
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 14
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 5473
sentence: 236
flesch: 54
cache: cache/transmotion-409.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-409.txt
summary:
  As Stein writes of sensation, location and history, her words hold additional meaning for readers familiar with Anishinaabe language and culture. Microsoft Word - 409-2637-6-CE.docx Transmotion Vol 4, No 1 (2018) 11 Nokaa-Zagaakwa’on Gaawiin Zagaakwasiiaag: Tender Buttons Unfastened MARGARET NOODIN Gertrude Stein’s signature line, “a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,” first appeared in her poem “Sacred Emily” in 1913 and was used by her throughout her life, becoming a red signature of repetition and linguistic machination.


id: transmotion-465
author: McGlennen, Molly Suzanne
title: Chasms and Collisions: Native American Women's Decolonial Labor
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 17
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 6712
sentence: 266
flesch: 43
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summary:
  Native women artists intervene in ways that expose the fraudulent claim of settler innocence of Indigenous genocide. The “chasm” of misunderstanding about which Eastern Band Cherokee artist Shan Goshorn argues and the “collision” of cultural expressions about which Choctaw/Chitimacha artist Sarah Sense describes provides a way of thinking about artistic renderings of lived experience for Native women.


id: transmotion-447
author: Sumac, Smokii
date: 2017-12-06
pages: 8
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 4662
sentence: 198
flesch: 58
cache: cache/transmotion-447.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-447.txt
title:
  Two Spirit and Queer Indigenous Resurgence through Sci-Fi Futurisms, Doubleweaving, and Historical Re-Imaginings: A Review Essay

summary:
  In this way, Driskill gives insights into Cherokee stories that may already be well-known to a Cherokee reader and takes the time to identify, imagine, and read them as the eponymous “asegi stories.” S/he is very clear to note that hir hypothetical asegi versions of Cherokee stories are but one telling, a re-imagining that allows for more possibilities.


id: transmotion-277
author: Blaeser, Kimberly M.
title: REVIEW ESSAY: "Song Buried in the Muscle of Urgency"
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 11
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 5261
sentence: 197
flesch: 56
cache: cache/transmotion-277.pdf
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summary:
  Other poems underscore the role of poetry (and music) in working for healing and change. Here as in other poems, even as the author comes out for poetry, song, tribal teachings, etc. the poems simultaneously contain the possible futility of these tools.


id: transmotion-366
author: Roemer, Kenneth Morrison
title: “Whitman’s Song Sung the Navajo Way”
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 15
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 5737
sentence: 341
flesch: 59
cache: cache/transmotion-366.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-366.txt
summary:
  These elements of my background and the surface similarities between particular sections of the complex nine-day Navajo Nightway and Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” led me to consider the implications of using major elements of the Transmotion Vol 4, No 1 (2018)         27   Nightway’s forms and functions as interpretive lenses for reading “Song of Myself.” “Expanding the American Literary Canon: A Comparative Analysis of the Navajo Nightway and Walt Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself.’”


id: transmotion-371
author: Madsen, Deborah L
title: The Mechanics of Survivance in Indigenously-Directed Video-Games: Invaders and Never Alone
date: 2017-12-06
pages: 32
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 13491
sentence: 581
flesch: 51
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summary:
  LaPensée is essentially talking about survivance as the principle that generates and thematizes Indigenous game mechanics. Further, as LaPensée’s remarks suggest, the capacity of interactivity to thematize issues like who has the capacity to assert authority within the game-world, and who is responsible for specific actions and their consequences, has a distinctive valence in Indigenous game design.3 Rigby and Ryan link the concept of player agency with a need for personal autonomy; in contrast, a powerful motif that runs through LaPensée’s conversation with Vicki Moulder (and indeed all of LaPensée’s work) is relationship with community:


id: transmotion-224
author: Brown Spiers, Miriam C
title: Reimagining Resistance: Achieving Sovereignty in Indigenous Science Fiction
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 24
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 10397
sentence: 442
flesch: 53
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summary:
  By following a contemporary protagonist, Riding the Trail of Tears demonstrates the ways that the attempted genocide of the Cherokee, which often seems to exist in the distant past, continues to affect Cherokee people and shape Cherokee stories. Rather than following in the footsteps of traditional Cherokee stories about the Little People, the narrator offers some new definitions: First, there are the Nunnehi, the immortals, who are about the same size as average humans.


id: transmotion-440
author: Van Alst, Theodore C.
title: Editorial statement: Old Meets New, or Arting
date: 2017-12-06
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1019
sentence: 59
flesch: 74
cache: cache/transmotion-440.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-440.txt
summary:
  This one here is about movement and movements, I think. Native art is moving forward, moves forward all the time, reflects the movement of us all.


id: transmotion-1088
author: Rikard, Nicole R.
title: Speculative Possibilities: Indigenous Futurity, Horror Fiction, and The Only Good Indians
date: 2023-01-27
pages: 25
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 7284
sentence: 304
flesch: 49
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summary:
  (78) Native slipstream in Indigenous futurisms is a way to reorient Indigenous ways of thinking and assessing the world; it is the act of decolonizing time as a linear, progressive model and understanding it as a myriad of possibilities. This article seeks to further both conversations— on Jones and The Only Good Indians, as well as on Indigenous futurisms—by exploring the novel as a work of Indigenous futurism, specifically as it relates to rewriting the past, present, and future through various methods of Native slipstream.


id: transmotion-404
author: Carocci, Max
title: Review of "Native American Slavery in the Seventeenth Century"
date: 2017-07-31
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1046
sentence: 38
flesch: 42
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summary:
  Published as a special issue in the journal Ethnohistory, this collection of five articles on indigenous American slaveries is the outcome of two subsequent annual meetings of the American Society of Ethnohistory (2013, 2014). The collection puts several forms of indigenous slavery at the centre of the colonisation of the Americas manifesting a mounting desire to understand the phenomenon in its full magnitude, from a hemispheric point of view.


id: transmotion-114
author: Carlson, David J.
title: The Columbian Moment: Overcoming Globalization in Vizenor’s The Heirs of Columbus
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 21
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 8459
sentence: 376
flesch: 51
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summary:
  Transmotion Vol 1, No 2 (2015) 32   With this critical context in mind, it is less surprising to find that the numerous connecting threads between Christopher and Stone Columbus in Heirs, including actual bloodlines linking them, consistently interfere with the reader’s ability to maintain an entirely comfortable sense of imaginative distance between them. We can turn back to the connections between Stone Columbus and Christopher Columbus to begin to illustrate this point, for these two central figures in the novel are presented as imperfect replicas of one another, as opposed to being pure dopplegangers.


id: transmotion-496
author: Rogers, Andrea L.
title: Me & My Monster
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1053
sentence: 80
flesch: 87
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summary:
  Gina kept a scrapbook of all the Lake Worth Monster articles and was thrilled to see her letter to the editor when it was Transmotion Vol 4, No 1 (2018)     106   published. When Gina returned later that week to thank him for saving her she learned the Lake Worth Monster’s name was “Matt.”


id: transmotion-209
author: McCormick, Loretta
title: Raised by Humans (Deborah Miranda)
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1071
sentence: 59
flesch: 62
cache: cache/transmotion-209.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-209.txt
summary:
  Beginning with the title of her third poetry collection, Raised by Humans (Tia Chucha 2015), Deborah Miranda conjures the California mission system to reveal its haunting legacy of colonization. Closing with “Faith,” Miranda turns Catholic imagery and dogmatic language that has, at times, served to manipulate and control into prayers of liberation through explorations of regret, grief, hope and thanks.


id: transmotion-512
author: Charlton, Adar
title: As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance (Leanne Betasamosake Simpson)
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1683
sentence: 76
flesch: 38
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summary:
  She asks, “What if the driving force in Indigenous politics is self-recognition rather than a continual race around the hamster wheel of settler colonial recognition?” Refusing settler colonial recognition becomes integral to radical resurgence because, as Simpson explains, colonialism begins from a want for land, but materializes in a series of complex and overlapping processes that maintain expansive dispossession of Indigenous bodies and lands (45).


id: transmotion-527
author: Robertson, Kimberly
title: #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women (Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale eds)
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1227
sentence: 47
flesch: 42
cache: cache/transmotion-527.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-527.txt
summary:
  It includes poems, essays, interviews, and art from a multigenerational collection of over fifty contributors who belong to a diverse array of Indigenous communities and showcases the voices of Indigenous women and girls as they speak to relationality, the gendered and sexual oppression of colonization, stereotypes, and Indigenous futurity. http://www.annickpress.com/NotYourPrincess #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women, co-edited by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale, is a heartfelt and heart-full contribution to the creative productions of Indigenous women, queer, trans, two-spirit, and non-binary communities that have proliferated in Canada and the United States over the past several years.


id: transmotion-519
author: Burkhart, Brett Douglas
title: Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City (Tanya Talaga)
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1060
sentence: 43
flesch: 60
cache: cache/transmotion-519.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-519.txt
summary:
  Although more than a century has passed since the first residential school was built in Thunder Bay, mistreatment of Indigenous students persists. And you must understand how the government of Canada has historically underfunded education and health services for Indigenous children, providing consistently lower levels of support than for non-Indigenous kids, and how it continues to do so to this day.


id: transmotion-521
author: Deer, Sarah
title: Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law (Cheryl Suzack)
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1687
sentence: 71
flesch: 41
cache: cache/transmotion-521.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-521.txt
summary:
  Suzack, through her critical reading of Leslie Marmon Silko’s 1977 novel Ceremony, problematizes the outcome of the Martinez case through the lens of a “dignity-based consciousness” (21) for Indigenous women. Silko’s novel Sarah Deer Review of Indigenous Women’s Writing   134   beautifully articulates how the disenfranchisement of Indigenous women presents a direct threat to the existence of tribal nations.


id: transmotion-1080
author: Laminack, Zachary
date: 2023-01-27
pages: 31
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 10174
sentence: 490
flesch: 53
cache: cache/transmotion-1080.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-1080.txt
title:
  In the Shallows of a Lake that Goes on Forever: Reconstructing Native Becoming in Stephen Graham Jones's Mapping the Interior

summary:
  Whether in the sense that something within Junior that would be otherwise receptive to story has been killed by a world hostile to it or that through growing into adulthood Junior was encouraged to become “dead to” potentialities in excess of settler framings of “the world,” Jones casts this sort of deadness as the orientation of “properly” acculturated Native men—“dead Indians” in the novel’s idiom—who believe their potential to become otherwise has already been “squandered.” How are the imagined “failures” variously configured within notions of futureless Native masculinities also stories of “squandered potential” as Junior, protagonist of Stephen Graham Jones’s Mapping the Interior, imagines them (16)?


id: transmotion-242
author: Gamber, John
title: In The Master's Maison: Mobile Indigeneity in The Heartsong of Charging Elk and Blue Ravens
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 24
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 10961
sentence: 641
flesch: 62
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txt: txt/transmotion-242.txt
summary:
  John Gamber “In the Master’s Maison” 115 27 One wonders if the positive readings of Charging Elk stem from a dominant liberal humanism that likewise privileges the individual over his commitments to community. Thus we so often encounter people who speak about Native people exclusively in the past tense: “Native Americans believed…” Kevin Bruyneel describes this construct as “colonial time,” and Charging Elk himself seems to buy into it.


id: transmotion-505
author: Cavanaugh, Alexander
title: Learn, Teach, Challenge: Approaching Indigenous Literatures (eds Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra)
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1773
sentence: 56
flesch: 26
cache: cache/transmotion-505.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-505.txt
summary:
  Those looking to substantively engage the material—such as those designing a course or planning a discussion of Indigenous literary scholarship—will find a deliberate, thorough immersion into prescient perspectives and debates over the last quarter century and beyond. As the anthology looks semi-hemispherically at Indigenous literary criticism in its contemporary moment, the next step, in my mind, is to pivot from the hemispheric to the global, a move that will bring these many strong voices and the field into a greater position as a major critical discourse.


id: transmotion-434
author: Grewal, Nadhia
date: 2017-12-06
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2160
sentence: 91
flesch: 63
cache: cache/transmotion-434.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-434.txt
title:
  The Faster Redder Road: The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones and The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones: A Critical Companion

summary:
  Jones has done countless interviews, many of which can be found on his site demontheory.net, and Stratton's interview reveals the ‘dark pathways’ and the major themes of Jones work (259). Reading Jones is certain to hot-wire your sight but, as both Van Alst and Stratton’s collections show, the vision may not be quite what you had expected.


id: transmotion-392
author: Runtic, Sanja
title: Review of Wabigoon River Poems
date: 2017-07-31
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1799
sentence: 74
flesch: 53
cache: cache/transmotion-392.pdf
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summary:
  Pallor Mortis is braided from three dominant structural-thematic strands—poems charged with personal emotion, such as the beautiful poem “Food for Moths” and “On Seeing a Photograph of My Mother at St. Joseph Residential School for Girls,” decolonization poems, and epigrammatic environmental verse. The second section, Wabigoon River Poem(s), introduces a different, albeit thematically related, set of poems.


id: transmotion-125
author: Stratton, Billy J.
title: “Carried in the Arms of Standing Waves:” The Transmotional Aesthetics of Nora Marks Dauenhauer
date: 2015-11-20
pages: 25
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 9507
sentence: 372
flesch: 46
cache: cache/transmotion-125.pdf
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summary:
  Through the emblem of collective trauma that this woman characterizes, along with “the 6th Avenue Jail of mostly native / and Black men,” the poem further testifies to the injustice and oppression to which native people have been subjected since contact (14). Refusing to relegate native people to the role of victims, however, the poem ends with an invocation of morose humor and ironic astonishment: Everyone laughed at the impossibility of it, but also the truth.


id: transmotion-510
author: Remy-Kovach, Léna
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1483
sentence: 63
flesch: 45
cache: cache/transmotion-510.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-510.txt
title:
  Frederick Weygold: Artist and Ethnographer of North American Indians (eds Christian F. Feest and Charles Ronald Corum)

summary:
  Unfortunately, some of Feest’s wordings in Frederick Weygold describing Corum’s interest in Lakota culture, such as his “fascination with Native American spirituality”, diminish his research and dedication by suggesting a more romanticized and stereotypical generalization of Lakota and Native American peoples. Despite questionable oversights concerning the socio- historical contexts of Native American ethnography and policy of the late 19th and early 20th century, as well as numerous typographies that were overlooked by the editors, it is a truly original book, full of detailed biographical anecdotes and high-quality representations, pictures, and photographs.


id: transmotion-240
author: Mailhot, Terese
title: Paul Simon Money
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2152
sentence: 175
flesch: 89
cache: cache/transmotion-240.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-240.txt
summary:
  I began to suspect they were flirting when I went with Mom to the library to look up if Simon had a wife. Paul Simon would tell it slant in the white ways of provocation and sentimentality.


id: transmotion-429
author: Apache, Crisosto
title: from Swift Cinder
date: 2017-12-06
pages: 11
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1997
sentence: 10
flesch: -107
cache: cache/transmotion-429.pdf
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summary:
  [4.73-80] relatives afar, in skeletal trailers houses, can see our saunter, his small hands clench mine, there was no rain fall, suckling the half empty bottle of apple juice, over rocks and sand, the hum of power lines tremble, leading us across, into the dusty land of Canaan           [4.81-88] lights flicker at a gas station at Rio Puerco, night insects swirl in 8mm film trails, erect in a makeshift glass ice case a polar bear watches over us, from a distance they enter a bar, late into the evening a few hundred yards away, our eyes leave the stare of a white bear who oscillates loudly over the building [4.89-96] a few drinks in a condo just off a roadway, just off the reservation, in the mountains, longer into a docile night we drank, just the two of us, turmoil courses through our vein, a rage inside rivers, a slippage of rocks and boulders, a reave of engine, a scale of head lamp, a glare of vague human lumbers in a drive way, we could never explain the splay of web oxidizing the windshield [4.97-04] early morning a crack through trees wake a lingering ghost, it usurps into a misty tree line, silent we raise from our bed, a quarter mile down the road, fire fighters pry his body, a brisk morning calls the ghostly finger to pinch his aorta, his body suspends, a mangle wreck, inanimate towards Albuquerque [4.05-12] he returns home after twenty years in a black Chrysler 300, it had deep window tints, a shiny rows of crow eyes, he drives the hell out of that car [4.13-14] one long tire skid mark, burns tar, scorches earth, metal mesh with polymer, blood vaporizes, no amount of liquid can extinguish the slow scald but through boughs, a forest is still a forest, just as a door is still a door, though a door, through a forest, exists or enters this child in it, Transmotion Vol 3, No 2 (2017)     156   from swinging hinge cross the threshold, this child small and grim finds solace among the boughs a gray hawk in flight, the sedge wren does scatter leaving one feather in a tether as a falling leaf pass over lower jaw bone through esophageal aqueduct, tiny surfeit saliva discharge, detonates fireflies every collapse of breath surpasses a slither of arid forest wind septal septet mortar sings as mute clay expels morsel lips, hastens exonerate bars that trudge pacing meadows, just before expiry, leaves in a hidden grove a smudge of severed branches night moves into diamond sparkle that shimmers layers about our eyes, immerse down into the cradle valley inside a cluster of naked words, reassuring daybreak is still coming, the Sandia Mountains steeple behind, a cascade prediction of early bruise bluish light ascends from the valley below, naked words plucks a floating mimic muddle of silt river, river surrounds phonetic carcass mask with new tongues, we left ourselves behind, let’s call one birth water, let’s call the other fire storm, we left them behind, Crisosto Apache “from Swift Cinder”   157   just as we were all left behind, somewhere between bones of recession and a gullet of inflation, simulating crane clusters, where words chose us, when we lay still, motionless, inside our helpless state, you said to me, under whispers of blowing sands, under whispers of two foolish boys, walking the tight shadow of electric power lines, electric in our need to wonder the outskirts of limestone and the western Tularosa basin plateaus, trying desperately to find a homestead away from death’s small grasp, here we are walking, no stagger, again a bewildering path that leads us both to the same pile of ash, a pile of ash that will eminently fluster   here are all the angles that fasten to one path or another here is the screw impaling beside the roof here is the unreachable us who flail heavenly about here is the path that rips through the back of this child here are the small piles of ash, hidden, to count when eluding the fiery man who empties dried shells threaded on string,   by a corral sinking in manure, here is the fool of a brother whimpering into fingers on a bed full of fleeting words, coral and turquoise here inside the pages, coral and turquoise shedding dust, turning our eyes into red jewel branches I crawl the tall sunflowers where the ground is ardent, in the same way of baptism, and a cross hatches lament, and the arduous ends of hollow rods is an envious company of a false father influences under a waste of trees. water is all around, and slithers as old sediments a crisscross tinder fist, marks intersections, white lines pass back and forth, through and over, then the white bear comes charging, breaking through brush and thicket musters old dirt into heaves of glass, sprays sinew inside wrists and joints, divulges over our toroid air mass empty these demarcate calculations   Crisosto Apache “from Swift Cinder”   155  


id: transmotion-369
author: LaPensee, Elizabeth A
title: Editorial
date: 2017-07-31
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1021
sentence: 37
flesch: 38
cache: cache/transmotion-369.pdf
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summary:
  With the intricate and well-established connections between Indigenous traditional games, digital games, game players, and game developers, “Transformations and Remembrances in the Digital Game We Sing for Healing” describes game development and the resulting game design. Developers across many communities are mentoring the next generations to not only play Indigenous games but also to express themselves through games.


id: transmotion-264
author: Poremski, Karen M.
title: Basket Becomes Codex: A Poem by Trevino Brings Plenty in the Portland Art Museum
date: 2017-12-06
pages: 26
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summary:
  Though Brings Plenty’s poem appears as one of the stories in “Object Stories,” the exhibit as a whole does not focus on Native objects, and does not overtly engage questions about acquisition of museum objects, or the relationship between Native communities, their objects, and the museum. There are countless stories in the historical record of how museums have participated in U.S. efforts to destroy Native people and culture even as they worked to preserve and display Native objects.


id: transmotion-449
author: Stirrup, David
title: Contributor biographies
date: 2017-12-06
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
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words: 1687
sentence: 70
flesch: 44
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summary:
  Billy J. Stratton from the University of New Mexico Press as well as the chapters “Navajo Joe,” and “The Savage Innocents,” in Seeing Red—Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins: American Indians and Film (2013), available from Michigan State University Press. Waegner edited a volume in the American Indian Studies Series (Michigan State University Press) in 2015 called Mediating Indianness, co-edited a project volume with Norfolk State University scholars, Transculturality and Perceptions of the Immigrant Other: “From-Heres” and “Come- Heres” in Virginia and North Rhine-Westphalia (2011), as well as, with colleagues from Université d’Orléans, Literature on the Move: Comparing Diasporic Ethnicities in Europe and the Americas (2002).


id: transmotion-490
author: Senier, Siobhan
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
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words: 2829
sentence: 121
flesch: 51
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title:
  REVIEW ESSAY: Monahsetah, Resistance, and Other Markings on Turtle’s Back: A Lyric History in Poems and Essays (Maurice Kenny) and The Homing Place: Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic (Rachel Bryant)

summary:
  The strongest sections—vintage Maurice Kenny, empathetically imaginative when it comes to depicting Indigenous women, history, and space—remind us that the subaltern does speak, but that we can never know whether heard her correctly: Monahsetah went into story long tales and short talks probably imagined perhaps a handful true to a few facts of her breath (16, 125) If transmotion defies statist, territorial definitions of sovereignty, Indigenous people in this region have exceedingly long histories of transmobility.


id: transmotion-515
author: Luckenbill, Rachel R
title: Indigenous Engagement with Christianity: A Review Essay
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 7
extension: .pdf
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sentence: 140
flesch: 28
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summary:
  Rubin appears to have three primary goals: to understand and honor the early American evangelical missionary spirit and the individuals who committed their lives to it, to identify the tension between early evangelical Christianity and Native American cultures, and to wonder about the effectiveness of such a missionary spirit by looking at its shortcomings. But the editors are careful to acknowledge their precarious position between long-overdue acknowledgment of Canada’s dark past and more complex investigation of the nuances of Indigenous religious identity and experience throughout the missionary era.


id: transmotion-531
author: Gamber, John
title: Unlikely Alliances (Zoltán Grossman)
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2574
sentence: 107
flesch: 50
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summary:
  Time and time again Native people fight on the front lines of protecting their land, often in the face of vocal (and frequently violent) opposition from their white neighbors, whose livelihoods draw upon those threatened lands. When I first picked up the book, I worried that it would wander down a path of multicultural feel-good cherry-picking, or worse, tales of white folks riding in to save Native people from themselves.


id: transmotion-501
author: Midge, Tiffany
title: When White People Talk About Their Country Being Stolen
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 525
sentence: 54
flesch: 92
cache: cache/transmotion-501.pdf
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summary:
  Microsoft Word - 501-2732-2-CE (1).docx Transmotion Vol 4, No 1 (2018)   108   When White People Talk About their Country Being Stolen (I Throw Up in My Mouth a Little Bit) Tiffany Midge “When White People Talk”     109   We laugh.


id: transmotion-252
author: De Mars, AnnMaria; Longie, Erich
title: The value of perseverance: Using Dakota culture to teach mathematics
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 19
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 5447
sentence: 304
flesch: 61
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summary:
  Many variables correlate with academic outcomes for Native American students, as well as the general population. While observational measures of student time on Transmotion Vol 4, No 2 (2018) 129 task are more reliable than teacher or student self-report, their use is prohibitively expensive, requiring multiple on-site assessments of each classroom and specialized training (Fredricks et al.).


id: transmotion-513
author: Andrella, Jennifer
title: Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight (ed. John H. Monnett)
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1118
sentence: 47
flesch: 41
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summary:
  Monnett’s fifteen-year commitment to the study of the Fetterman Fight culminates with Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight, which engages students and scholars of ethnohistory to reimagine both the narrative and the craft. John H. Monnett addresses this predicament through an edited synthesis of Lakota and Northern Cheyenne eyewitness accounts, to reexamine the traditional narrative of this battle.


id: transmotion-568
author: Alberts, Crystal K
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1689
sentence: 56
flesch: 42
cache: cache/transmotion-568.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-568.txt
title:
  We Are Dancing For You: Native Feminisms & the Revitalization of Women's Coming-of-Age Ceremonies (Cutcha Risling Baldy)

summary:
  Ultimately, Risling Baldy counters the conclusions of Kroeber and his peers by sharing her own personal interviews with Hupa, Yurok, Karuk, and/or Wiyot peoples, usually those who identify as women, who articulate what was ignored, such as the significance of the Flower Dance to the Athabascan cultures of California and the Southwest, with a specific focus on the Hoopa Valley Tribe (87). Risling Baldy argues that the miners (often known as the 49ers), rushing to conquer the land and profit from its resources, perceived coming-of-age ceremonies as fertility rites and an open invitation for sexual assault.


id: transmotion-528
author: Martin, Keavy
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1111
sentence: 41
flesch: 52
cache: cache/transmotion-528.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-528.txt
title:
  Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: What Inuit Have Always Known to Be True (eds Joe Karetak, Frank Tester & Shirley Tagalik)

summary:
  While some note the potential for Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit to be integrated into the schools and other Nunavut institutions, elders like Atuat Akittiq also question the dominance of Eurowestern structures and their often token inclusions of Inuit ways of doing things: referencing the justice system, she points out, “We are invited to sit in a court case, but everything is already arranged. The many challenges facing contemporary Inuit youth render the task of passing along Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit even more pressing—and elders like Rhoda Akpaliapik Karetak apply these Keavy Martin Review of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit 147 teachings to their own pedagogical practice, centering adaptability and a concern for emotional intelligence: “I often try to live in my children’s and grandchildren’s way a little bit...


id: transmotion-577
author: Walsh, Martin William
title: A Dramatic Reading of Vizenor's Bear Island at the University of Michigan
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
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sentence: 28
flesch: 46
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summary:
  This wa the last conflict of the U.S. Army with Native Americans as Vizenor documents in his Introduction to the published work, with further perspectives provided by Jace Weaver in a Foreward (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). Anishinaabe language elements, which Vizenor uses throughout, as well as the majority of nature references were assigned to Ms. Pawlicki;.passages relating to the U.S. Army to Graham Atkin; other passages relating to White encroachment and exploitation to another U- M Drama alumnus Joseph McDonald, with myself assuming the voice of and passages relating to Leech Lake elder Hole-in-the-Day (Bugonaygeshig) whose mistreatment by the federal legal system was the underlying cause of the conflict.


id: transmotion-237
author: Sexton, Steven Brent
title: Red Dreams, White Nightmares: Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 1763-1815
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1959
sentence: 85
flesch: 50
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summary:
  While the belief in Providence, greed, and just good ole’ “Indian-hating,” have all been fingered for the impetus behind expansion, Owens contends that a factor that often gets overlooked is the colonist’s fear of Indian “savages,” specifically the fear of Pan-Indian alliances and a “general Indian war.” This divide-and-conquer strategy was used to stave off pan-Indian alliances when it became apparent how difficult it would be to enforce the Proclamation and stop further settlement.


id: transmotion-608
author: Pyron Alvarez, Kelli
title: The Stains of Burden and Dumb Luck (Carolyn Dunn)
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1127
sentence: 43
flesch: 71
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summary:
  This cartography of memory, as Glancy terms it, is more than just a map of Dunn’s memories, but is also representative of the senses that evoke and hold those memories in place. Home, according to Dunn’s pieces, is not free from pain or sorrow, but it is where the heart lies, where memories are formed, and where the soul is at peace.


id: transmotion-618
author: Delgado, Francisco
title: Otherwise, Revolution!: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead (Rebecca Tillett)
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1195
sentence: 46
flesch: 40
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summary:
  Citing sources as varied as Angelita La Escapia’s indigenization of Karl Marx’s methodology in her revolution efforts to the elusive figure of Geronimo – who, Tillett explains, “continues to represent the outlaw and that which is outlawed [as well as] an embodiment of the very concept of Indigenous resistance and Revolucion” – Tillett argues that the possibility of a better future hinges predominantly on the promotion and practice of Indigenous worldviews (147). Tackling Silko’s 1990 novel, once described by Joy Harjo as “an exploded version” of Ceremony, is no easy feat (Tillett 7).


id: transmotion-520
author: Killelea, Patricia
title: Indian Country: Telling a Story in a Digital Age (Victoria L. LaPoe and Benjamin Rex LaPoe II)
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1780
sentence: 56
flesch: 35
cache: cache/transmotion-520.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-520.txt
summary:
  Not only does the text provide an intelligent critique of mainstream journalism's shortcomings when it comes its treatment of Native peoples and issues, it offers both broad and tribally-specific parameters for what an improved media focus on Native communities might look like in theory and practice. Because of its dialogic nature, Native media is a communal gathering place (43) not only allowing for Native people to talk back to one another, but also to talk back to settler colonial culture at large.


id: transmotion-511
author: Hardbarger, Tiffanie
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1259
sentence: 58
flesch: 34
cache: cache/transmotion-511.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-511.txt
title:
  The Medicine of Peace: Indigenous Youth Decolonizing Healing and Resisting Violence (Jeffrey Paul Ansloos)

summary:
  https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/the-medicine-of-peace The Medicine of Peace asserts that the impacts of complex historical trauma are tied to the cycles of violence facing Indigenous youth in Canada, with the Western criminal justice and mental health systems being complicit in perpetuating further violence. He asserts that Indigenous youth are in desperate need of reconnection and cultural and communal revitalization.


id: transmotion-507
author: Anderson, Joshua
title: The Place of Stone: Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America's Indigenous Past (Douglas Hunter)
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1756
sentence: 51
flesch: 33
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summary:
  For some readers, Hunter’s methodology, which privileges non-Indigenous interpretations of Dighton Rock and proclaims to document “the erasure of America’s Indigenous past,” may risk reifying the long-standing trope of the “vanishing Indian.” Defaced with centuries of graffiti and forcibly removed from its original location, Dighton Rock, as the book’s subtitle suggests, bears the marks of Indigenous erasure and displacement, while its history of non-Indigenous misinterpretation extends to other palimpsestic erasures and re-inscriptions.


id: transmotion-590
author: Williams, Samantha M.
title: Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press (ed. Jacqueline Emery)
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1090
sentence: 40
flesch: 43
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summary:
  Emery asserts, for example, that student authors used school newspapers “to shape representations of Indianness” in these publications, to create communities of Indigenous readers and editors, and to reach out both to their home communities and other Native boarding school students across the United States (2). That he made these comments while a student at Carlisle, established as the first off-reservation Indian boarding school in 1879 with a mandate to assimilate and “civilize” Native children, also displays a resilience that, according to author Jacqueline Emery, was more common among boarding school students than one might think.


id: transmotion-615
author: Hausmann, Stephen Robert
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1560
sentence: 57
flesch: 43
cache: cache/transmotion-615.pdf
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title:
  Reservation Politics: Historical Trauma, Economic Development, and Intratribal Conflict (Raymond I. Orr)

summary:
  Orr, a political scientist at the University of Oklahoma, argues that this question, as well as several other contemporary political questions spread across multiple reservations, can be answered by examining what he calls a given society’s “worldview.” This is a spacious term, and Orr goes to some length pinning it down to a concrete meaning for the purposes of his argument: “A worldview … is the interpretation about the world and our role in it … constituted from the intersection of our motivations and how we frame or perceive our surroundings” (5).


id: transmotion-516
author: Lucchesi, Annita
title: Of Cartography (Esther G. Belin)
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 982
sentence: 38
flesch: 44
cache: cache/transmotion-516.pdf
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summary:
  This sense of home and familiarity with place further highlights urban indigenous experiences of geography. This collection is of importance to anyone interested in indigenous cartography and geography, expression and navigation of urban indigenous identity, and Navajo literary interventions.


id: transmotion-523
author: Andrews, Scott
title: Red Readings: Decolonization through Native-centric Responses to Non-native Literature and Film
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 7
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2811
sentence: 123
flesch: 51
cache: cache/transmotion-523.pdf
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summary:
  The readings may consider non-native texts, but they are texts likely to be experienced Transmotion Vol 4, No 1 (2018)     v   by native readers, whether directly in a school classroom or on a television screen, or indirectly through the governmental policies established upon or supported by them. We can easily imagine native readers being uncomfortable with the masks a settler colonial text asks them to wear, even those texts that do not involve representations of native people.


id: transmotion-438
author: Noodin, Margaret
title: Gigawaabaa-bye-bye
date: 2017-12-06
pages: 8
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2766
sentence: 163
flesch: 74
cache: cache/transmotion-438.pdf
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summary:
  Microsoft Word - PROOF.docx Transmotion Vol 3, No 2 (2017)     129   Gigawaabaa-bye-bye MARGARET NOODIN Jim Northrup’s words are like the zizigwad, the sound of jack pines, ever alive and reminding us of who we are. His rhetorical truth was echoed years later as his grandson, Jim Jr., wrote about using his treaty rights to hunt, fish, gather and govern as a citizen of a sovereign nation.


id: transmotion-622
author: Lopenzina, Drew
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1951
sentence: 62
flesch: 42
cache: cache/transmotion-622.pdf
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title:
  American Apartheid: The Native American Struggle for Self-Determination and Inclusion (Stephanie Woodard)

summary:
  Stephanie Woodard’s new book American Apartheid provides an up to date roadmap of the ongoing battles of Native peoples in the U.S. to retain their land base, secure voting rights, halt the exploitative extraction of resources on their lands, and stem the tide of abuse, neglect, and coercion that has often defined relationships with the settler colonial powers that Woodard likens to the oppressive South African system referenced in her title. In observing the resilience of Native peoples through all these conflicts, Woodard comes to regard indigenous culture as “a shield that has persisted, indeed thrived, despite all efforts to stamp, starve and regulate it out of existence (xii).


id: transmotion-266
author: Graham Jones, Stephen
title: Letter to a Just-Starting-Out Indian Writer—and Maybe to Myself
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 7
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2948
sentence: 185
flesch: 83
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summary:
  But please note that this is happening in American Indian writing more and more, where the first little bit of a piece isn’t the writer telling the story, but the writer establishing he or she’s really Indian, by showcasing “expected Indian things,” exhibits 1 through 8. 7) Understand that when the audience or the market or the critics refer to you as an “American Indian Writer,” that this is an attempt to dismiss you, to preserve you on a shelf, to prepare you for display.


id: transmotion-218
author: Waegner, Cathy Covell
date: 2017-12-06
pages: 29
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 12725
sentence: 436
flesch: 43
cache: cache/transmotion-218.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-218.txt
title:
  Consuming, Incarcerating, and “Transmoting” Misery: Border Practice in Vizenor’s Bearheart and Jones’s The Fast Red Road

summary:
  Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures, edited by Gerald Vizenor, U of Oklahoma P, 1989, pp. 141-153. Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures.


id: transmotion-212
author: Root, Deborah
date: 2016-11-28
pages: 9
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3753
sentence: 163
flesch: 63
cache: cache/transmotion-212.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-212.txt
title:
  Honoring the Disappeared in the art of Lorena Wolffer, Rebecca Belmore, and the Walking With Our Sisters project

summary:
  But isolation is deadly; isolation is the enemy For many of us who live outside the communities in which the disappearances of First Nations girls and women are taking place, it can be a bit too easy to veil the reality of what is happening, and to imagine the extreme violence in Juarez, Vancouver, Winnipeg and elsewhere in Canada, as something that happens to “them”, to poor women, streetwalkers, aboriginal women, Mexicans, a displacement that derives from a deep fear of our own complicity, and a fear of waking up to the ways in which “them” and “us” might be linked. When Native women go missing there tends to be less fuss in the media than when non-Native, middle-class women disappear.1 The unwillingness of media to provide consistent and in depth coverage of missing and murdered indigenous women makes it easier for those of us outside the families and communities to slumber through the violence, and to refuse the connection between “them” and “us.”


id: transmotion-347
author: Jones, Stephen Graham
title: No Takebacks
date: 2017-07-31
pages: 31
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 11226
sentence: 739
flesch: 91
cache: cache/transmotion-347.pdf
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summary:
  One day RJ’s dad was just standing there in the kitchen with us after his work, and he pretty much foisted the idea on us. RJ and me were sitting on the island (me) and the counter (him), texting.


id: transmotion-493
author: Carocci, Max
title: REVIEW ESSAY: Changing Debates in Museum Studies since NAGPRA
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3187
sentence: 105
flesch: 36
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txt: txt/transmotion-493.txt
summary:
  Especially the two most recent publications make abundantly clear that in indigenous North American communities objects are often seen as living entities rather than inert matter. Each example benefits from additional supporting material from other repatriation cases, which helps readers to contextualise the dealings in the broader framework.


id: transmotion-628
author: Andrews, Scott
title: New Poets of Native Nations (ed. Heid E. Erdrich)
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1693
sentence: 95
flesch: 63
cache: cache/transmotion-628.pdf
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summary:
  There is the literal renewal of the frogs singing in the spring, but there also are the growing voices of native poets singing in the aftermath of colonization, and there is the singing of the people learning their native languages. Cultural continuity and contemporary presence are essential to indigenous survivance, and several poems in New Poets reflect that in their relation not to orality but in their relation to typography, to print culture.


id: transmotion-532
author: Mish, Jeanetta Calhoun
title: Notes Toward a Review of IRL and Nature Poem by Tommy Pico
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2509
sentence: 124
flesch: 67
cache: cache/transmotion-532.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-532.txt
summary:
  To preemptively rebut any future criticism which might claim that Pico’s writing is all social media style and no poetics and to acknowledge Pico’s reference in IRL to a similar critique of another American poet’s collection, I’ll quote one last poem here, a poem that says, quite clearly, that Tommy Pico can write that kind of poetry if he wishes and with as much craft as anyone else. (NP 2) Pico’s wry sense of humor is often showcased by his line breaks—breaking the line after “savage” complicates the idea of the sentence because it appears that nature poems are fodder for the noble savage” poet; on the next line the completion of the phrase “noble savage narrative” turns this section to a critique of representation, not of (or maybe in addition to) those who represent.


id: transmotion-246
author: Meloche, Katherine
title: Playing in the Digital Qargi: Iñupiat Gaming and Online Competition in Kisima Inŋitchuŋa
date: 2017-07-31
pages: 21
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 8469
sentence: 447
flesch: 54
cache: cache/transmotion-246.pdf
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summary:
  Aulatsigunnarniq, or the ability to change quickly for the continuance and well-being of all, illustrates the perspective needed to understand Inuit self-determination, yet the “ability to make things move” also addresses the mental and physical dynamism needed for Inuit games. Instead, its structure mimics foundational values and social relations that contextualize Inuit games found in a qargi (the community house).


id: transmotion-245
author: Longboat, Maize
title: REVIEW ESSAY: Reset and Redefine: Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) and the Rise of Indigenous Games
date: 2017-07-31
pages: 10
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 5047
sentence: 185
flesch: 48
cache: cache/transmotion-245.pdf
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summary:
  These kinds of cross-cultural connections are incredibly relevant when trying to understand the history of video gaming in Indigenous communities today, as Indigenous people are also engaging with video game narratives that communicate stereotypical representations of Indigenous cultures as monolithic and undeveloped. Although Never Alone is indeed gorgeous in its visual effects and riveting in its various educational aspects, the game helps to break down real life barriers that tropes of Indigenous peoples have created and that have existed in video game narratives since their popularization.


id: transmotion-514
author: Hudson, Sara Jane
title: American Indian business: principles and practices (Deanna M. Kennedy, et al eds)
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1533
sentence: 62
flesch: 45
cache: cache/transmotion-514.pdf
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summary:
  This book is more than just a collection of principles and practices relating to American Indian businesses: it speaks of the wider issues facing many Indigenous people establishing and running their own business. Therefore, although this book focuses on American Indian businesses, the experiences and learnings it contains are relevant to any Indigenous person or community operating or looking at establishing a business.


id: transmotion-538
author: Larré, Lionel
title: John Joseph Mathews: Life of an Osage Writer (Michael Snyder)
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1227
sentence: 46
flesch: 63
cache: cache/transmotion-538.pdf
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summary:
  What is remarkable, and what should prove very useful to future Mathews scholars and readers is that Snyder brings the reader’s attention to many short texts that Mathews published in periodicals such as Sooner Magazine. Although Snyder defines Mathews as a regionalist writer in a more and more standardized nation, a writer who “influenced later generations of writers, including Kiowa author N. Scott


id: transmotion-517
author: Mackay, James
title: Specter of the Indian (Kathryn Troy)
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1341
sentence: 44
flesch: 45
cache: cache/transmotion-517.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-517.txt
summary:
  Rather, her taking of Spiritualist publications at face value allows her to entirely avoid the tricky ground of intentionality, and instead to use manifestations of indian spirits (the inauthenticity of which should be immediately obvious to any reader) to map out the psyches of a group of mostly wealthy, liberal, middle and upper class white Americans in relation to the genocides and land expropriations taking place in the country. Though many historians have stated that indian spirits mainly functioned to “forgive” whites, Troy notes that this forgiveness was targeted: only spiritual investigators with the wit to listen, understand and act were sent messages of benevolence.


id: transmotion-522
author: Hogue, Rebecca
title: Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner)
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1281
sentence: 53
flesch: 52
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summary:
  However, Iep Jāltok, the first book of poetry by a Marshallese writer to be printed by a United States press, powerfully charts a new course of Marshallese history and futurity. This first set of poems tell two histories: Lōktan̄ūr—which is told in in two parts, then Liwātuonmour and Lidepdepju— about two sacred stones; by using duality, she explores the defining characteristics of Marshallese society and values over time, giving Marshallese cosmologies due space against the influences of religious colonialism.


id: transmotion-630
author: Mackay, James
title: Heart Berries (Terese Marie Mailhot)
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 3
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sentence: 63
flesch: 64
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summary:
  “Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot Review – a Raw, Rich Indigenous Memoir.” It will hopefully be recognised for its sabotage of white saviour narratives – Casey turns out to be mostly a selfish if sometimes loving jerk – and the ways in which the author insists on the specificity of her narrative, refusing the reader the right to call this anything so banal as a generational statement of Indian pain.


id: transmotion-599
author: Hess, Janet Berry
title: Native Land Talk: Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories (Yael Ben-zvi)
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
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words: 1345
sentence: 41
flesch: 26
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summary:
  In her close attention to individual voices preserved in little-discussed historical documents—her careful analysis and naming of individuals who attempted to negotiate with or resist domination and violence—Ben-zvi makes a valuable contribution to scholarship on African and Indigenous American agency within the history of colonialism and to scholarship bringing forward specific African and Indigenous American voices that resisted Euro-American violence. Delving into a remarkable and varied array of resources—petitions, letters, newspaper articles, and speeches, among others—to examine Euro-American rights claims, Ben-zvi inventively applies these theoretical histories to the petitions and appeals for freedom and land made by Indigenous and African American peoples in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (roughly 1760-1840).


id: transmotion-675
author: Stirrup, David
title: Editorial
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 2
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words: 990
sentence: 42
flesch: 59
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summary:
  Why, only 27 this issue), and we will be joined next issue by Bryn Skibo- Birney (University of Geneva), CMarie Fuhrman (University of Idaho), and Ying-Wen Yu (University of Arizona). It is an incredible privilege editing this journal, spending so much time reading the insightful work of Indigenous and non- Indigenous scholars, catching glimpses of the incredible new Indigenous writing happening out there, and feeling awestruck—if also a little overwhelmed—at the sheer quantity of new books that are sliding off the humming presses at a rate of knots.


id: transmotion-610
author: Jacobs, Thomas Donald
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 3
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sentence: 80
flesch: 52
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title:
  The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (Robbie Richardson)

summary:
  The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture. His recent monograph, The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in Eighteenth- Century British Literature and Culture, is based upon his doctoral thesis.


id: transmotion-679
author: Weaver, Jace
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 3
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mime: application/pdf
words: 1044
sentence: 58
flesch: 60
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title:
  A Whirlwind Passed Through Our Country (Rani-Henrik Andersson) / Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas (Benjamin R. Kracht)

summary:
  In that regard, his book contributes to the spate of scholarship in the past several decades on Native American Christianity (a subject too often overlooked), including Mark Clatterbuck’s Crow Jesus and the late historian Homer Noley’s First White Frost. Transmotion Vol 5, No 1 (2019) 307 Of these two books, Kracht’s is the more seamless. Unlike the Ghost Dance, which was suppressed after Wounded Knee, peyotism and the Native American Church were tolerated by Whites because it was seen as a quietistic response to reservation life.


id: transmotion-625
author: Coutts, Robert James
title: An Ethnohistorian in Rupert’s Land: Unfinished Conversations (Jennifer S. H. Brown)
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 3
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sentence: 44
flesch: 46
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summary:
  http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120267 It is possible to read An Ethnohistorian in Rupert’s Land: Unfinished Conversations and, without knowing the author, soon recognize the voice of Jennifer Brown. I do not intend to criticize or undermine the brilliant work that Jennifer Brown has pursued over many years nor the critical importance of the cultural and kinship dynamics within Cree and Ojibwe societies and with European and Canadian newcomers that is on display in An Ethnohistorian in Rupert’s Land.


id: transmotion-524
author: Orange, Tommy
title: Nemuel Island
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1727
sentence: 134
flesch: 92
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summary:
  Microsoft Word - 524-2843-1-CE.docx Transmotion Vol 4, No 2 (2018) 110 Nemuel Island TOMMY ORANGE “I want to feel the approach of sleep as if it were a promise of life, not rest.” ―Fernando Pessoa, the The Book of Disquiet His name is Nemuel Island, and he is convinced that this, the fact of his full name being what it is, permanently damaged his life—as a burn victim might feel about their post-burn seen face.


id: transmotion-548
author: Baudemann, Kristina
title: Laughing in the Dark: Weird Survivance in the Works of Bunky Echo-Hawk and Daniel McCoy Jr.
date: 2019-12-05
pages: 18
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 7532
sentence: 343
flesch: 54
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summary:
  Ryan’s 1999 work already hints at a link between survivance and disturbing, non-cathartic representations of violence, war, depression, illness, and death: in The Trickster Shift, Ryan reads the “black humour” (98) of Native artists such as McMaster or Poitras as strategic resistance to their representational disenfranchisement, arguing that elements which are both disturbing and funny serve “not so much to undercut seriousness … but to intensify it graphically” (98). He cofounded NVision, a nonprofit organization for Native artists “who focus on Native American youth empowerment through multimedia arts” (bunkyechohawk.com).


id: transmotion-616
author: De Vos, Laura Maria
title: On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis (Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh)
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1751
sentence: 52
flesch: 36
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summary:
  The decolonial response to this epistemic colonialism (which, in this argument, is the precursor of all colonial power), is something Mignolo calls “epistemic reconstitution,” which he defines as “to delink from the CMP [colonial matrix of power] in order to re-link and to re-exist” (227, 229). Another key concept to the praxis and theory Walsh and Mignolo discuss is that of “modernity/coloniality,” a “compound expression” which conveys the notion that “there is no modernity without coloniality” and which functions in this text as the shorthand for the “colonial matrix of power” (4).


id: transmotion-464
author: Firmino-Castillo, Maria Regina
title: WHAT MA LACH’S BONES TELL US: Performances of Relational Materiality In Response to Genocide
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 32
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 12086
sentence: 596
flesch: 58
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summary:
  Three moments of performance, ranging from the quotidian to the ceremonial to the experimental, will be high- lighted: performing name exchange with a wild edible plant important to survival during wartime famine; performing chaj (ceremony) to address collective trauma from the 1982 mass killing at Xoloche’; and, finally, performing experimental theater in collaboration with Mexican artist, Violeta Luna, and Ixil performance ensemble, Teatro Tichiil. Disembodied, the yooxhil wan- ders about, requiring ritual performance to bring it back to its corporeal home, re-incorporated into the body to re-constitute, reanimate, and regenerate the person.


id: transmotion-619
author: Low, Denise
title: The Keyboard Letters QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM (Diane Glancy)
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1594
sentence: 100
flesch: 70
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summary:
  Glancy describes her process of writing, “Sometimes a lot of things come together and congeal in clumps, which become a group of poems” (66). This innovative collection includes poems, notes, short prose (preface and backmatter are essential to the whole), allusions to paintings, and texts.


id: transmotion-627
author: Gates St-Pierre, Christian
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1091
sentence: 46
flesch: 56
cache: cache/transmotion-627.pdf
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title:
  Reawakening Our Ancestors’ Lines: Revitalizing Inuit Traditional Tattooing (Angela Hovak Johnston, editor)

summary:
  It is the result of an eight year-long personal project by Inuit artist Angela Hovak Johnston to revive the tattooing tradition of Inuit women in Nunavut, Canada. I am also delighted to think that it will bring an unfamiliar aspect of Inuit culture to the attention of many readers.


id: transmotion-762
author: Sullivan, Clare Elizabeth
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1565
sentence: 68
flesch: 49
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title:
  Indigenous Cosmolectics: Kab'awil and the Making of Maya and Zapotec Literatures (Gloria Elizabeth Chacón)

summary:
  Chacón approaches Indigenous literatures from her perspective as an immigrant and academic in the United States with Indigenous and campesino roots. Throughout the book, the author uses kab’awil as her method as well, reading broadly across geography, time, and genre in order to present a more well-rounded view of Indigenous literature.


id: transmotion-648
author: Brings Plenty, Trevino
title: Pretend Indian Exegesis
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 11
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2919
sentence: 222
flesch: 66
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summary:
  These PI’s fluidly move in communities and hide in the complications of Indian identity. ~ ~ The Speaker of this piece of writing is Lakota who sometimes self-identifies as Indian, American Indian, Native American, and Indigenous.


id: transmotion-537
author: Wiese, Doro
title: Untranslatable Timescapes in James Welch’s Fools Crow and the Deconstruction of Settler Time
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 20
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 8266
sentence: 481
flesch: 53
cache: cache/transmotion-537.pdf
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summary:
  Microsoft Word - 537-Article%20Text-3661-1-9-20190106.docx Transmotion Vol 5, No 1 (2019) 56 Untranslatable Timescapes in James Welch’s Fools Crow and the Deconstruction of Settler Time DORO WIESE What happens if alternative worldviews on time and temporality expressed in literature circulate on a global literary market? In Fools Crow—written by world renowned writer James Welch, himself of Blackfeet and A'aninin origin and part of a literary tradition that has been called the Native American Renaissance (see Lincoln)—Pikuni protagonists are guided by dreams, visions, myths, and prophecies that cannot be integrated into a Euro-Western understanding of time that emerged when the nexus between coloniality, rationality and what has been called modernity was established during the European Renaissance in the sixteenth century c.t. (see Dunbar-Ortiz 32-45; Quijano 168-69).


id: transmotion-533
author: Shuck, Kim
title: Arachnid Verve (Shauna Osborn)
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1104
sentence: 70
flesch: 78
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summary:
  I think that poetry deserves deep reading, investigation and empathy. In Arachnid Verve Osborn remains very raw on this subject.


id: transmotion-637
author: Tatonetti, Lisa
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 7
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3430
sentence: 163
flesch: 56
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title:
  REVIEW ESSAY. Weaving the Present, Writing the Future: Benaway, Belcourt, and Whitehead's Queer Indigenous Imaginaries

summary:
  In this Transmotion Vol 4, No 2 (2018) 155 equation, to be trans is a movement, a change, a place of growth that mirrors the shifts of land and water that Indigenous people have recognized/been part of for millennia. Belcourt writes his way to and through questions of disembodiment even as he bears witness to settler attacks on the bodies of Indigenous people like Colton Boushie, Christian Duck Chief, and Barbara Kentner, as well as to the violence of settler systems that can only imagine death for Indigenous people.


id: transmotion-559
author: Cottrell, Courtney
title: Indian Made: Museum Valuation of American Indian Identity through Aesthetics
date: 2019-12-05
pages: 22
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 8364
sentence: 352
flesch: 50
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summary:
  The consequences of which include freezing Indigenous Peoples in a distant past, misrecognizing Indigenous representations, and limiting the type of art Native artists are recognized for. As I stand in front of this extensive collection of Ninham art, owned by a tribal museum, made by a tribal citizen, I wonder what Native art is?


id: transmotion-349
author: Carlson, David
title: Review of Treaty Shirts by Gerald Vizenor
date: 2017-07-31
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2570
sentence: 78
flesch: 39
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summary:
  Together, they embody a range of potential imaginative strategies for resisting colonial power structures, critiquing what Vizenor terms “casino corruption,” and ensuring that the ethos of White Earth Constitution will continue to serve its utopian function in shaping a living polity. In a novel that embeds complex political theorization in a narrative displaying his characteristic spirit of invention, intertextuality, and play, Vizenor probes the very meaning of constitutionalism, not just for White Earth, but for other contemporary indigenous communities as well.


id: transmotion-746
author: Mason, Courtney
title: Review Essay: Indigenous Tourism Movements (Alexis C. Bunten and Nelson Graburn)
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3213
sentence: 130
flesch: 40
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summary:
  Consequently, the book makes a significant contribution to the literature on Indigenous tourism, colonial histories of cultural repression, the production of Indigeneity, nationalism, and the inequitable of political power structures that continue to marginalize and disadvantage Indigenous communities internationally. This chapter considers the potential of Indigenous tourism sites to shape the political representation of Indigenous communities by assessing how the formation of national parks and related tourism opportunities have facilitated the Embera in Panama to remain on their lands.


id: transmotion-700
author: Kemball, Anna
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1155
sentence: 44
flesch: 29
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title:
  Indigenous Homelessness: Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (Evelyn Peters and Julia Christensen, editors)

summary:
  Despite the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the homeless populations of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, studies of homelessness have so far failed to consider the specificity of Indigenous homelessness in culturally relevant ways. Arguing that homelessness is “endemic to experiences of colonialism” (323) and indeed rooted in colonial practices, editors Peters and Christensen have drawn together chapters which resituate the crisis of Indigenous homelessness away from social pathologies, discourses of poverty, addiction and mental health.


id: transmotion-606
author: Bawden, Andi
title: Indigenous Cities: Urban Indian Fiction and the Histories of Relocation (Laura M. Furlan)
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1415
sentence: 48
flesch: 35
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summary:
  Furlan’s theorisations of diaspora, transnationalism, gender, place, and history in urban Indian writing establish that she should be seen as an exciting voice in American Indian Studies. She argues that such works “reveal that political agency and cultural preservation are possible in the city” and therefore “represent a new direction in American Indian writing” (Furlan 3).


id: transmotion-782
author: Sear, Victoria
title: Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7 re Stsq'ey's-kucw (Marianne Ignace and Ronald E. Ignace)
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1529
sentence: 38
flesch: 41
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summary:
  ISBN 9780773551305 https://www.mqup.ca/secw--pemc-people--land--and-laws-products-9780773551305.php This collaborative and interdisciplinary work by Marianne and Ronald Ignace explores and documents Secwépemc history, from the Ice Age through to the present. Structurally, the text is divided into 14 chapters; each chapter addresses a different aspect of Secwépemc history, culture, laws, or language.


id: transmotion-613
author: Carlson, David
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1339
sentence: 42
flesch: 32
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title:
  The Right Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties (eds. John Borrows and Michael Coyle)

summary:
  Focusing specifically on the ongoing importance of treaty relationships between First Nations tribes and the national and regional governments of Canada, the book’s contributors frankly, realistically, and sometimes hopefully assess the potential for treaty law to become a central tool for upending the repressive apparatus of settler colonialism in the modern state. Michael Coyle’s contribution, “As Long as the Sun Sets,” considers problems arising in the ongoing interpretation of treaty law in the Canadian Courts, an inevitable process owing to constantly changing contexts in which treaty provisions much be understood and enforced.


id: transmotion-572
author: Jobin, Danne
title: Gerald Vizenor's Transnational Aesthetics in Blue Ravens
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 23
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 9701
sentence: 378
flesch: 45
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summary:
  Knowledgeable about Native art, Nathan is moved by the blue ravens (155) and deems the art avant-garde (162), offering to frame and sell some of the paintings in his gallery (163). Similarly, the Musée d'Ethnographie is criticised for abandoning native arts and sanctioning the theft of sacred artefacts (166), without mentioning the voices of native artists, the cosmototemic voices, thus adding a second crime: the abuse of precious cultural memories (166).


id: transmotion-677
author: Whetung, Estrella
title: Sovereign Traces, Volume 1: Not (Just) (An)Other
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1108
sentence: 50
flesch: 47
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summary:
  In Sovereign Traces, Indigenous artists are at the forefront centering Indigenous perspectives and cultivating Indigenous visibility. Indigenous storytellers are reclaiming these innovative traditions, suggesting “we need to glimpse the old spiritual world that helped, healed, and honored us with its presence and companionship.


id: transmotion-780
author: Hansen Murray, Ruby
title: Our Tents are Small Volcanoes (Vivian Faith Prescott)
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1169
sentence: 56
flesch: 68
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summary:
  In “Guoldu—Cloud of snow which blows up from the ground,” the speaker loses sight of herself.1 Prescott titles poems with North Sámi words for the distinct conditions of snow, “Njáhcu— Thaw” and “Spildi—Very thin layer of ice on water or milk.” https://quillsedgepress.org I’m at Playa, a residency in remote Eastern Oregon reading Vivian Faith Prescott’s Our Tents are Small Volcanoes.


id: transmotion-766
author: Garroutte, Eva Marie
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2846
sentence: 115
flesch: 42
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title:
  Activating the Heart: Storytelling, Knowledge Sharing and Relationship (Christensen, Julia, Christopher Cox and Lisa Szabo-Jones, eds.)

summary:
  https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/A/Activating-the-Heart2 This new collection of essays takes up issues relevant to the conduct of research involving Indigenous communities. Anyone hoping to conduct academic inquiry in Indigenous communities needs to appreciate that they and their participants may hold very different views on the appropriate goals of interaction.


id: transmotion-489
author: Andrews, Scott
title: Stories for a Lost Child (Carter Meland)
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1239
sentence: 65
flesch: 67
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summary:
  Still other stories are less fanciful and involve contemporary native people, whom Fiona deduces include her grandfather and other relatives, and people from the distant past, including a French priest who may be her ancestor. These are connected by third- person narration from the point of view of Fiona, a teenager who has received a package of stories written by the grandfather she never knew.


id: transmotion-626
author: Perttula, Timothy K.
title: Monsters of Contact: Historical Trauma in Caddoan Oral Traditions (Mark van de Logt)
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1040
sentence: 31
flesch: 51
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summary:
  These events were traumatic, but at their core, van de Logt argues that the stories about monsters pertain to different historic events unique to the Arikara, Pawnee, Wichita, and Caddo peoples brought on by European contact: “The differences in monster iconography show that each tribe had a different history to tell” (184). Following a careful consideration of storytelling and historicizing oral traditions in Part I, the monsters van de Logt discusses in Parts II and III of this book are specific to each Caddoan Indian oral tradition while the traditions themselves are related to each tribe’s unique history and historical experiences.


id: transmotion-372
author: Burkhart, Brian
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 37
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 12506
sentence: 473
flesch: 59
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title:
  On the Mysterious 1831 Cherokee Manuscript or Jisdu Fixes John Locke’s Two Treatises of Civil Government

summary:
  What this Jalagi is expressing is the “intimate knowing relationship” (as future Oceti Sakowin Transmotion Vol 4, No 1 (2018) 70 Philosopher Vine Deloria Jr. will put it) of elohi as the preconceptual intertwining of Jalagi aniyvwi ale Jaligi elohi (Cherokee people and Cherokee land) in contrast to the Kinless abstract understanding of people and land, of corn, agriculture, best practices, most productive use of the land and resources, and so on (Deloria 2). The Political Power that arises from a reconceptualization of power out of elohi will not have the force of domination but will carry with it an understanding of how a people can maintain a positive or non-dominating relation with their land or territory as a people and a positive or non-dominating relationship to other land and other people.


id: transmotion-786
author: Stirrett, Natasha
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1427
sentence: 55
flesch: 46
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title:
  Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh (Raised Somewhere Else): A 60s Scoop Adoptee’s Story of Coming Home (Colleen Cardinal)

summary:
  In the concluding chapters, Cardinal embarks on healing, and her rise as a public speaker, advocate, and co-founder of the Indigenous Survivors of Child Welfare Network is inspiring. As suggested by Cardinal in the concluding chapter, this over-representation of Indigenous children in the child welfare system is ongoing and pervasive.


id: transmotion-545
author: Weaver, Jace
title: Redwashing: Sedgwick's Blood Moon, a Case Study
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 10
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2561
sentence: 171
flesch: 71
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summary:
  Cherokee women engaged in “errant sex” with white traders. Just as David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon, and even enrolled Osage citizen Dennis McAuliffe, in his The Deaths of Sybil Bolton, did not know of the Osage Reign of Terror prior to writing their books, Sedgwick assumes because he did not know of Cherokee Removal, it must be a little-known story.


id: transmotion-632
author: Gould, Janice M.
title: Review of Bojan Louis's Currents
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2202
sentence: 98
flesch: 73
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summary:
  We can think about Louis’s “Currents” (and other poems) in this way too. The here and now re-emerges in “Arc Flash,” as in other poems, and the mechanical world of men and machines seems to impose itself again and again: Here, a few cars idle without drivers, warm up before the workday while smoke from houses vanishes and releases the night sky.


id: transmotion-617
author: Wolf, Katie
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1766
sentence: 78
flesch: 53
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title:
  The Turtle's Beating Heart: One Family's Story of Lenape Survival (Denise Low) and Shadow Light (Denise Low)

summary:
  Low explains that “The Root [her paternal lineage] and Bruner families presented themselves as European Americans and participants in American society, not Indians” because “Erasure of identity has costs, but survival trumps everything else” (43). Low beautifully juxtaposes human mortality with the permanence of nature, focusing on the inheritance of a concealed cultural identity, and exploring the long-lasting effects of generational and historical trauma.


id: transmotion-570
title: Enacting Hope Through Narratives of Indigenous Language and Culture Reclamation
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 20
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 7514
sentence: 354
flesch: 47
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author:
  Chew, Kari A.B.; Anthony-Stevens, Vanessa; LeClair-Diaz, Amanda; Nicholas, Sheilah E.; Sobotta, Angel; Stevens, Philip

summary:
  We choose not to italicize Indigenous languages so as not to mark them as Other in the narratives and discussion. In the same way that language is living and nurtured through relationships, we treat hope as embodied and relationally enlivened in Indigenous language and cultural education.


id: transmotion-620
author: Dietrich, Rene
title: REVIEW ESSAY: Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (Daniel Heath Justice)
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3098
sentence: 129
flesch: 46
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summary:
  With this outspoken commitment to the potential political role of Indigenous literatures, Justice demonstrates throughout the book how each of the questions put by the chapter titles speaks to ongoing issues that Indigenous peoples face in their continuing existence under settler colonial conditions. Clearly, these stories cannot coexist with the idea that Indigenous peoples are capable of creating their own narratives that do not only counter these imposed, harmful stories but are proof of and represent Indigenous people as existing within rich, complex, and vibrant communities that have their own multifaceted literary traditions and practices.


id: transmotion-540
author: Pedri-Spade, Celeste
title: A Bag Worth a Pony: The Art of the Ojibwe Bandolier Bag (Marcia G. Anderson)
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 3
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summary:
  She introduces the reader to the stories of several Ojibwe women beadwork artists, illuminating their dedication, resilience, creativity, strength, and intelligence. Anderson dedicates the second part of the book to privileging the voices and experiences of Ojibwe women beadwork artists throughout seven different Ojibwe communities in Minnesota.


id: transmotion-763
author: Fletcher, Matthew L.M.
title: Review Essay: On Disenrollment
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 5
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words: 2808
sentence: 299
flesch: 77
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summary:
  Tribal council chambers. It is a true that the federal government has no power to overturn tribal enrollment decisions.


id: transmotion-740
author: Sayre, Gordon Mitchell
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 2
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words: 1026
sentence: 38
flesch: 59
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title:
  Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade (Timothy Cochrane)

summary:
  Author Timothy Cochrane worked a long career with the National Park Service of the United States, at parks in Alaska as well as in Northern Minnesota and Michigan, and served for twenty years as superintendent of Grand Portage National Monument, on the Canadian border about fifty kilometers northeast of Grand Marais. Cochrane makes a bid to shift attention of fur trade historians toward the U.S. side of the border, and has written a book that will appeal to academics and local history enthusiasts in equal measure.


id: transmotion-640
author: Zahzah, Omar
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 14
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words: 7304
sentence: 264
flesch: 37
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title:
  Special Issue Review Essay: The Intelligentsia In Dissent: Palestine, Settler-Colonialism and Academic Unfreedom in the Work of Steven Salaita

summary:
  This theorization of the dynamic interchange and mutual composition between the covenantal discourses informing Zionism and “New World”/North American Settlerism lays the groundwork for Salaita’s ultimate, provocative contention that the settler-colonization of Palestine would have been unthinkable without North American conquest, as “American settlers filled with religious talk were one step ahead of Arthur James Lord Balfour” (80). Indeed, as Salaita himself has noted, at times by way of personal example, the academic embargo upon engaging Palestine in its full colonial character is itself an extension of the ongoing settler-colonization Palestinians continue to endure.


id: transmotion-748
author: Morford, Ashley Caranto
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
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words: 1800
sentence: 83
flesch: 51
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title:
  “(big)/little” moments of world-building revolution: a review of Smokii Sumac’s you are enough: love poems for the end of the world

summary:
  Above all, and most importantly, this collection is a love song and thanksgiving “for the love of all / that is queer and” Indigenous—for Indigenous LGBTQ2IA+ peoples and selfhoods (13). But Sumac emphasizes that Indigenous LGBTQ2IA+ people will “keep on fighting” (64).


id: transmotion-550
author: Dorr, Gary F.
title: Mind, Memory, and the Five-Year-Old
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2017
sentence: 115
flesch: 85
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summary:
  Microsoft Word - 550-3374-1-CE.doc Transmotion Vol 4, No 2 (2018) 132 Mind, Memory and the Five-Year-Old GARY F. DORR I was moved to memory by the glass. I looked at the house, just a couple of butt-swats away, and I committed everything inside it to memory.


id: transmotion-257
author: Brown, Michelle Lee
title: Never Alone: (Re)Coding the Comic Holotrope of Survivance
date: 2017-07-31
pages: 23
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words: 8544
sentence: 386
flesch: 51
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summary:
  These decolonial intimacies indigenous game realms offer extend kin-making and practices through various materialities and multiple realm-crossings. (Re)mapping survivance into digital game spaces traces these relations even further.


id: transmotion-776
author: Shook, Jennifer E
title: Review Essay: First-Nations, Métis, and Inuit Drama from Playwrights Canada Press
date: 2019-06-27
pages: 9
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 5040
sentence: 219
flesch: 60
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summary:
  In past decades, Nolan found that whitestream audiences complained about feeling sad and guilty during Indigenous plays, and the few successful plays seemed “to be reinforcing the same theme: Although Indigenous stories and people are so much more than traumas, Nolan gives the TRC, along with Idle


id: transmotion-802
author: Stirrup, David
title: Contributor Biographies
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1865
sentence: 77
flesch: 36
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summary:
  Contributors Dr. Vanessa Anthony-Stevens, PhD., is an Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Idaho. She earned her doctorate in Language, Reading, and Culture from the University of Arizona in 2016 and was awarded a Hunt postdoctoral fellowship, which supported her contributions to this manuscript, in 2018.


id: transmotion-547
author: Stirrup, David
title: Notes on Contributors
date: 2018-04-25
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
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sentence: 35
flesch: 46
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summary:
  BECCA GERCKEN is an Associate Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, Morris. HEID E. ERDRICH is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently the Minnesota Book Award-winning Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media from Michigan State University Press.


id: transmotion-789
author: Ghanayem, Eman; Macklin , Rebecca
title: Indigenous Narratives: Global Forces in Motion (An Introduction)
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 10
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words: 3900
sentence: 167
flesch: 33
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summary:
  Zahzah’s thorough exploration of Salaita’s books on Palestine, Israeli settler colonialism, Indigenous North America, academic freedom, and the ethics of solidarity returns us to Salaita’s importance in the growing field of global Indigenous Studies. In 2012, Chadwick Allen established the concept ‘trans-Indigenous’ to develop a methodology for global Indigenous literary studies and, elsewhere, scholars have explored the potential for comparing Native American socio-historic perspectives with those of other colonized and oppressed peoples.


id: transmotion-784
author: Rhadigan, Ryan
title: Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media (Heid E. Erdrich)
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1424
sentence: 64
flesch: 48
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summary:
  “Charger,” like many other poems in the collection, amply demonstrates Erdrich’s deft command of language and capacious creative vision. Whether floating above a burning nighttime sea of gas flares in a jet high-over North Dakota’s oil fields, or freefalling through a tangled medley of magnetic cassette tape, scripted Q-code signals, and coaxial cables, Erdrich’s poems diligently render an apocalyptic North American landscape that is at once hauntingly familiar and imaginatively disorienting.


id: transmotion-799
author: Greymorning, Neyooxet
title: Naming the World: : Language and Power Among the Northern Arapaho (Andrew Cowell)
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2342
sentence: 91
flesch: 62
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summary:
  In chapter 4, Cowell delves into the topic of personal names and naming, name usage, and toward the end of the chapter sections on change, and Hollywood names. The chapter begins with some linguistic analysis of form and structure of names as they once were and how that Transmotion Vol 5, No 1 (2019) 272 structure has been maintained through personal names.


id: transmotion-781
author: Barrett-Mills, Jake
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1927
sentence: 76
flesch: 33
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title:
  Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders (J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, editor)

summary:
  Under her guidance, the local remains distinctly local, yet also resonates out into a wider discursive context of Indigenous sovereignty. Kauanui’s refusal to arrange Speaking of Indigenous Politics based on easy divisions of affiliation, geography, theoretical field, or indeed along a chrononormative timeline highlights the intermeshed nature of the countervailing colonial forces that continue to suppress Indigenous sovereignties worldwide.


id: transmotion-544
title: Untitled Document
extension: .htm
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sentence: 9
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summary:
  Originally written for the website 99 Poems for the 99%, poet Heid E. Erdrich created a visual landscape of associations and references that match the tremendous irony of how the word “occupy” can be meant. Written by Heid E. Erdrich.


id: transmotion-805
author: Livingston, Chip
title: Royals (Cedar Sigo)
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
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words: 1499
sentence: 55
flesch: 61
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summary:
  Sigo invokes the lives of poets and artists, dead and living, referencing them throughout the poems in Royals, introducing us if we’re not yet familiar – and urging the reader to get to know this alluded to and elevated academy. In Sigo’s poems, “a couch of friends’ faces” is among the highest seat of honor, bringing the throne to the living room, the royalty to the shag carpet, the poetry reader to the art show, where surely Verlaine’s blues are playing, a current that reappears through the collection in color and Transmotion Vol 5, No 1 (2019) 357 sound, at times referencing punk poet musician Tom Verlaine and at others, French surrealist poet Paul Verlaine.


id: transmotion-808
author: Andrews, Tarren
title: Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption (Susan Devan Harness)
date: 2019-12-15
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2127
sentence: 79
flesch: 51
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summary:
  In the absence of positive representations of Native people, Harness’s childhood was punctuated with negative and racialized stereotypes of Native people that run rampant in Montana and the rest of the North America. Her father’s racist characterization of Native people seems to be validated by Harness’s early experiences in the world as a brown child in a white family: being followed while shopping, being refused service in favor of white patrons, hearing stories from other adults about the difficulties of renting to Natives, etc.


id: transmotion-638
author: Kongerslev, Marianne
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2950
sentence: 137
flesch: 43
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title:
  Sovereign Stories and Blood Memories: Native American Women’s Autobiography (Annette Angela Portillo)

summary:
  These are important issues that deserve more attention than the three pages Portillo awards them, and their presence in this form is more surprising than illuminating. With Winnemucca’s 1883 Life among the Piutes as a point of departure, Portillo discusses the irony of indigenous women strategically using “the autobiography, a traditionally Eurocentric, male-driven genre” as a way to “talk back and rewrite official histories of indigenous peoples” (103).


id: transmotion-678
author: Robinson, Jack William
title: Common Fires: A Tribute
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
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words: 2906
sentence: 133
flesch: 67
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summary:
  Having been saved from post-traumatic stress response (the word disorder implies an inadequacy on the part of the victim, whereas the word “response” conveys the inevitable impact of historical circumstances) by the recovery of his Anishnaabe worldview, Wagamese wrote for Indigenous people who are similarly lost. Keeper advises that Indigenous people need “the kinda horses them outsiders ride nowadays” to survive in the contemporary world and “fight the good fight” (198).


id: transmotion-581
author: Stratton, Billy J.
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 22
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 9052
sentence: 347
flesch: 45
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title:
  Transnational Narratives of Conflict and Empire, the Literary Art of Survivance in the Fiction of Gerald Vizenor

summary:
  In a similar vein, Vizenor has sought to rectify the sustained exclusion of native people in postcolonial discourse by placing emphasis on the geographic claims and connections of native peoples beyond the limits of strategic locations bound to imposed and simulated reservation boundaries or liminal frontier zones invented by colonial knowledge. The agile modes of discourse created with such elements allow the creative capacities of storytelling and art to be more effective in conveying the essence of survivance and native Billy J. Stratton “Transnational Narratives” 20 sovenance, which Vizenor defines as that presence in remembrance, that trace of creation and natural reason in native stories (Fugitive 15).


id: transmotion-787
author: Henzi, Sarah
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2177
sentence: 93
flesch: 57
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title:
  Kuei, My Friend: A Conversation on Race and Reconciliation (Deni Ellis Béchard and Natasha Kanapé Fontaine )

summary:
  ISBN: 9781772011951 https://talonbooks.com/books/kuei,-my-friend Kuei, My Friend: A Conversation on Race and Reconciliation (2018) is an epistolary exchange between Innu writer, slam poet, and artist Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, and Québécois/American writer, journalist, and photographer Deni Ellis Béchard, originally published in French in 2016 under the title Kuei, je te salue: conversation sur le racisme. Indeed, Kanapé Fontaine signs her first letter to Béchard with nuitsheuakan, my friend.


id: transmotion-767
author: Duchemin-Pelletier, Florence
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3409
sentence: 145
flesch: 52
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title:
  Tunirrusiangit: Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak (Anna Hudson, Jocelyn Piirainen, Georgiana Uhlyarik, editors)

summary:
  The ambition of the curatorial team has consisted of confronting norms and preconceptions by shifting discursive modalities, relocating Inuit art in the spectrum of Indigenous knowledge, values and decolonial thinking. This work, far from being apolitical, set the tone of the show as it contextualized Inuit art in Canadian colonial history and asserted Inuit sovereignty.


id: transmotion-837
author: Leggatt, Judith
title: Medicine Bundles, Manoomin, and the Limits of Reconciliation
date: 2019-12-15
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1964
sentence: 76
flesch: 53
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summary:
  Sir John A. is “a historical, musical, comedic, biographical, political piece of the theatre” (x) that examines a topic that was a source of debate as the nation approached its 2017 sesquicentennial: the place of Canada’s first Prime Minister in history, and whether the nation should continue to honour a man whose legacy includes the attempted genocide of the Indigenous peoples. At the same time, there is a danger that the very humour that allowed an audience of Torontonians to have “an unexpected and overwhelming appreciation” for a show in which Toronto cottage-goers are the villains https://talonbooks.com/books/sir-john-a https://talonbooks.com/books/cottagers-and-indians Judith Leggatt Review of Sir John A. and Cottagers and Indians 188 (Cottagers x), also might allow them to distance themselves from the more radical changes that the dramas are asking them to consider.


id: transmotion-764
author: Ganteaume, Cecile Rose
title: Mapping Modernisms: Art, Indigeneity, Colonialism (Elizabeth Harney and Ruth B. Phillips, editors)
date: 2019-06-27
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1361
sentence: 52
flesch: 37
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summary:
  To lay the groundwork for the essayists’ individual case studies, Harney and Phillips’ cogent introduction discusses the evolution of art history as a discipline in terms of its complicit history with colonialism, imperialism and nation-building. Broadly speaking, the five essays in Part I explore how definitions of primitivism often relegated the artistic practices of twentieth century artists of Zulu, Inuit, Haida, Kwakwaka’wakw and Māori heritage to “folk art” or “craft.”


id: transmotion-844
author: Anson, April
date: 2019-12-10
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2513
sentence: 180
flesch: 47
cache: cache/transmotion-844.pdf
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title:
  The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean (Gerald Horne)

summary:
  These Indigenous and Black studies scholars detail continuance through and beyond The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, vital scholarship that builds decolonial futures into the historical recognition so assiduously archived in Horne’s research. https://monthlyreview.org/product/apocalypse_of_settler_colonialism/ In The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, Gerald Horne once again earns his reputation as a nuanced transnational historian of race and class.


id: transmotion-772
author: Harris, Audrey Adele
title: Two Maya Tales from the Mérida Cereso
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 18
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 8017
sentence: 424
flesch: 71
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summary:
  Un viento colado se mece entre las hojas de los árboles y trae Me quedo a gustarlo porque sé eso de las flores y el sol que, agradecido en que lo guardan de noche, les regala sus colores.


id: transmotion-753
author: Fiola, Chantal
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1410
sentence: 53
flesch: 38
cache: cache/transmotion-753.pdf
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title:
  Rooster Town The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901–1961 (Evelyn Peters, Matthew Stock, and Adrian Werner)

summary:
  Following the trail of records for Rooster Town Métis individuals who supposedly received land or good prices for it, the authors highlight that marginal, low-cost locations of households, overcrowding of relatives within a single dwelling, and low estimated worth of such dwellings all counter Flanagan and Ens’s claims. Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901-1961.


id: transmotion-633
author: Kliewer, Matt
title: Translating Images of Survivance: A Trans-Indigenous Corporeal Analysis of Spear and Maliglutit
date: 2019-12-05
pages: 19
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 8018
sentence: 369
flesch: 49
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summary:
  Discussing this same scene from Atanarjuat in his keynote address at the 2018 Native American Literature Symposium, Joshua Nelson carefully Transmotion Vol 5, No 2 (2019) 65 notes that the interaction between the corporeal and ecological in Indigenous film often decidedly speaks back against pernicious and stereotypical portrayals of the ‘ecological Indian.’ As a supplement and antidote to these images, important recent work on indigenous film demonstrates how contemporary indigenous filmmakers have resisted Hollywood by employing culturally specific representational practices of visual sovereignty, and sometimes by ignoring or eliding dominant representational conventions and other forms of colonization.”


id: transmotion-854
author: Hudson, Brian K
title: Love in a Time of Slaughters: Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction (Susan McHugh)
date: 2019-12-10
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1747
sentence: 88
flesch: 46
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summary:
  Her critique rings true in terms of how Indigenous peoples of Japan faced similar experiences of colonization as other Indigenous peoples. She builds upon the work of several Native theorists to provide strong readings of oral traditions, novels, and films by and about Indigenous peoples and nonhuman animals.


id: transmotion-860
author: Tarpalechee, Blue
date: 2019-12-10
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1080
sentence: 45
flesch: 38
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title:
  Violence Against Indigenous Women: Literature, Activism, Resistance (Allison Hargreaves) and Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State (Shannon Speed)

summary:
  Hargreaves examines several works—including cinema, poetry, plays, and memoir—to discover the claims they make and to “demonstrate the http://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/V/Violence-Against-Indigenous-Women http://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469653129/incarcerated-stories/ Blue Tarpalechee Review of Violence Against Indigenous Women and Incarcerated Stories 161 important theoretical and practical contributions made by Indigenous literature in helping all readers to imagine beyond the possibilities, limits, and gaps” of settler-colonial policies and initiatives. Throughout the text, Speed puts in the work to create a context for the reader in such a way that the uninitiated will have little trouble placing these stories into the existing conversation surrounding violence against Indigenous women, while also leaving open areas for deeper exploration.


id: transmotion-567
author: Haag, Marcia L.
title: Cherokee Narratives: A Linguistic Study (Durbin Feeling, William Pulte, Gregory Pulte)
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1235
sentence: 60
flesch: 55
cache: cache/transmotion-567.pdf
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summary:
  ISBN: 978-8061-5986-7. http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/2274/cherokee%20narratives Durbin Feeling has been one of the luminaries of Cherokee language and linguistics for a long time. Everyone interested in Cherokee language and literature should acquire this book for immediate enjoyment and long-term reference.


id: transmotion-644
author: Davis, Jenny L.
title: the seed runner
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2225
sentence: 122
flesch: 80
cache: cache/transmotion-644.pdf
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summary:
  Seed runners have kept them safe for thousands of years. Pratt Industries had created the new residential detention program— Strategic Training Units—designed to train delinquent Indian minors within their Corporate jurisdictional boundaries for futures in the company.


id: transmotion-850
author: Squint, Kirstin
date: 2019-12-09
pages: 7
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3590
sentence: 135
flesch: 44
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title:
  REVIEW ESSAY: Who Belongs?: Race, Resources, and Tribal Citizenship in the Native South (2016) and Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal (2019) 

summary:
  The journal Native South appeared on the scene in 2008, providing an additional platform for interdisciplinary scholarship in the field, and was edited by historians Greg O’Brien and James Taylor Carson, and anthropologist Robbie Etheridge, all of whom had already published significant monographs on southeastern tribes. The fifth chapter of Native Southerners concentrates on the mid-eighteenth century to the emergence of the United States, detailing the ways that southeastern tribes allied themselves in various colonial conflicts such as the Anglo-Cherokee War, the Seven Years’ War, and the American Revolution.


id: transmotion-792
author: Watt, Sierra
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1281
sentence: 53
flesch: 50
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title:
  Maritime Heritage in Crisis: Indigenous Landscapes and Global Ecological Breakdown (Richard M. Hutchings) 

summary:
  Hutchings is at his best when linking archeology and CRM to attempts at disconnecting Indigenous people from their land (103). At their core, the dual truths that the land is intrinsically Indigenous and conversely, that Indigenous people are impossible to decouple from their land heritage, undermine settler development.


id: transmotion-800
author: Calhoun Mish, Jeanetta
title: Instruments of the True Measure (Laura Dá)
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 972
sentence: 37
flesch: 61
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summary:
  The association of birth and surveying/mapping is confirmed and displayed on the page, first in “Nationhood” and then throughout the book by the use of GPS coordinates where place names might be expected— including in birth poems of Lazarus and Crescent. “Nationhood” and “The Point of Beginnings” both turn on the change in a baby’s heart, post-birth, when it goes from “parallel flow to serial flow and the shunt between the right and left atrium closes” (3).


id: transmotion-783
author: Szews, Julia
title: Inside me an Island (shaped w/hole)? Re-imagining oceanic identity in diaspora
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1274
sentence: 70
flesch: 58
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summary:
  Moreover, it claims the oral traditions on which Chamoru poetry is based. In his essay ‘Singing Forwards and Backwards’, Chamoru scholar and poet Craig Santos Perez suggests that contemporary Chamoru poets “are deeply woven into the aesthetics of the tsamorita tradition” (156), an ancient Chamoru call-and-response form of poetry.


id: transmotion-785
author: Carlson, David
title: Brother Bullet (Casandra Lopez)
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1612
sentence: 67
flesch: 62
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summary:
  Throughout Brother Bullet, López regularly reminds her readers of this. Brother Bullet concludes with lines (in the poem “Oranges Are Not Indigenous”) that find López in the backyard of the family home, reflecting on a celebration of what would have been Brother’s birthday.


id: transmotion-809
author: Stern, Pamela
title: Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth: Gender, Shamanism and the Third Sex (Saladin d'Anglure
date: 2019-12-10
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1007
sentence: 62
flesch: 58
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summary:
  Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth: Gender, Shamanism and the Third Sex. It is worth noting https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/inuit-stories-of-being-and-rebirth Pamela Stern Review of Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth 159 that the stories presented in Life Lived Like a Story (Cruikshank 1990) and Wisdom Sits in Places (Basso 1996) were collected contemporaneously with those Saladin d’Anglure recorded for Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth.


id: transmotion-863
author: Leischner, Emily Jean
title: A Digital Bundle: Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online (Jennifer Wemigwans)
date: 2019-12-10
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1181
sentence: 51
flesch: 33
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summary:
  This in many ways mirrors the network of Indigenous Knowledge Wemigwans is tracking and assessing through FourDirectionsTeachings.com Based on an impressive breadth and depth of research, Wemigwans compellingly argues that it is possible for Indigenous Knowledge, a phrase she capitalizes throughout, to be cared for respectfully online, following Indigenous cultural protocols.


id: transmotion-803
author: Noodin, Margaret
title: Dark Sister: Poems (Linda Rodriguez)
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1775
sentence: 80
flesch: 68
cache: cache/transmotion-803.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-803.txt
summary:
  These nations represent multiple possible futures for Cherokee people and Rodriguez asks readers to think beyond such terms as American Indian, Native American, even Cherokee, to understand the complexity of multiple identities that have changed over time. Rodriguez illustrates how the history of ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ (Tsalagihi Ayeli, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma); ᏣᎳᎩᏱ ᏕᏣᏓᏂᎸᎩ (Tsalagiyi Detsadanilvgi, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians); and the ᎠᏂᎩᏚᏩᎩ ᎠᏂᏣᎳᎩ (Anigiduwagi Anitsalagi or United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians) is Margaret Noodin Review of Dark Sister 359 one that needs unravelling to understand where histories intersect and where agency and equality were denied.


id: transmotion-777
author: Fox, Timothy
title: Evil Dead Center (Carol LaFavor)
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2653
sentence: 109
flesch: 52
cache: cache/transmotion-777.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-777.txt
summary:
  A phone call sets in motion the involvement of amateur Anishinaabe sleuth Renee LaRoche and members of the tribal police, eventually leading to Timothy Fox Review of Evil Dead Center 320 not only the identification of the dead woman as a murdered investigative activist, but the uncovering of a conspiracy that is poisoning the very lifeblood of the tribal community. This is most clearly seen in Renee’s recognition and acceptance of a white retailer whose Timothy Fox Review of Evil Dead Center 322 eyes betrayed his melancholy: “They were dark—some said brooding, others said haunted.


id: transmotion-806
author: Gross, Lawrence
title: Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year (Linda LeGarde Grover)
date: 2019-12-15
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1859
sentence: 106
flesch: 75
cache: cache/transmotion-806.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-806.txt
summary:
  The many examples of Ojibwe family life provided by Grover show how in reality the history and cultural practices of the Ojibwe are passed down from generation to generation. Of even greater importance, though, is the manner in which the history and culture discussed above manifest themselves in the many scenes of Ojibwe family life Grover paints.


id: transmotion-587
author: Squint, Kirstin
title: This American Ghost (Michael Wasson)
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1025
sentence: 43
flesch: 57
cache: cache/transmotion-587.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-587.txt
summary:
  Such personal loss is underscored with intergenerational trauma, as suggested by the allusion to Chief Joseph from his 1877 surrender to the US Army, “Maybe I shall find them among the dead,” (37). Yet this poem details the speaker’s brother’s attempted suicide and suffering, posing the musings of a ghost, “how to change all these years of loss” (25).


id: transmotion-868
author: Hagen, Brad
title: On Dreamcatchers
date: 2019-12-05
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2503
sentence: 122
flesch: 74
cache: cache/transmotion-868.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-868.txt
summary:
  Microsoft Word - On Dreamcatchers.docx Transmotion Vol 5, No 2 (2019) 82 On Dreamcatchers BRAD HAGEN When I was younger, dreamcatchers seemed inexplicable to me.


id: transmotion-756
author: Waegner, Cathy Covell
date: 2020-05-28
pages: 34
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 11523
sentence: 438
flesch: 51
cache: cache/transmotion-756.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-756.txt
title:
  “The Indian Who Bombed Berlin”: German Encounters in Ralph Salisbury’s Work – Modulating Modern Precariousness

summary:
  In a 2009 portrait, Arnold Krupat praises Salisbury’s postmodern feat of espousing both/and rather than the exclusionary either/or, “the ways in which Ralph Salisbury continues to model the traditional and modern (postmodern, if you will) roles of the poet as Cherokee humanist and Indigenous cosmopolitan. Biographical German Encounters Ralph Salisbury (1926-2017) grew up in a rural area near Arlington, Iowa, attending school with mostly German American children (So Far, So Good 20).


id: transmotion-788
author: Hitch, Gregory
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1520
sentence: 60
flesch: 32
cache: cache/transmotion-788.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-788.txt
title:
  There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities (Ingrid Waldron)

summary:
  There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities. Fortunately, Ingrid R. G. Waldron’s theoretically rich and incisive analysis of environmental racism in Nova Scotia, Canada, expertly puts these frameworks into conversation, and thus pushes the field forward in considering these deeply enmeshed issues.


id: transmotion-842
author: Sheyahshe, Michael
title: A Girl Called Echo Series, Vols. 1-2 (Katherena Vermette)
date: 2019-12-15
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1182
sentence: 56
flesch: 47
cache: cache/transmotion-842.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-842.txt
summary:
  Reading and examining comics featuring Indigenous characters, one can view them through the lens of criteria synthesized from Raymond Stedman’s Shadows of the Indian: Stereotypes in American Culture. The usual tropes, stereotypes, and misrepresentations he explores include does the Indigenous character speak like Tonto; do they have magic, mystic, or spiritual powers, just because they are Indigenous; are Indigenous characters portrayed simply as either Noble or Savage; and so forth.


id: transmotion-771
author: Leischner, Emily Jean
title: Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists (Margaret M. Bruchac)
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1196
sentence: 42
flesch: 26
cache: cache/transmotion-771.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-771.txt
summary:
  Chapters Two through Six present case studies that each challenge the Native informant/anthropologist binary and highlight the unique strategies Indigenous peoples used to manage their encounters with outside researchers. Savage Kin also explores how the political goals of Indigenous peoples were inseparable from their relationships with early anthropologists and served as both motivators for continuing and ending partnerships.


id: transmotion-817
author: Delgado, Francisco
title: Sordid Pasts, Indigenous Futures: Necropolitics and Survivance in Louis Owens' Bone Game
date: 2020-12-03
pages: 22
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 7073
sentence: 330
flesch: 58
cache: cache/transmotion-817.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-817.txt
summary:
  This history includes the oft-neglected enslavement of Indigenous people until 1867, a fact that prompts Cole to comment, “Californians don’t like to hear about their sordid pasts. Characters like Luther, Hoey, and Cole Francisco Delgado “Sordid Pasts, Indigenous Futures” 58 challenge stereotypes of Indigenous people as violent or as alcoholics through the course of the novel.


id: transmotion-845
author: Stoecklein, Mary
title: Murder on the Red River and Girl Gone Missing (Marcie R. Rendon)
date: 2019-12-15
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1623
sentence: 78
flesch: 65
cache: cache/transmotion-845.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-845.txt
summary:
  Rendon’s depiction of Cash Blackbear is a welcome addition to the genre. Set in the Fargo-Moorhead Red River Valley, details and descriptions of the various North Dakota and Minnesota settings make the Cash Blackbear mysteries deeply regional.


id: transmotion-636
author: Doerfler, Jill
title: Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907-1970 (Kirby Brown)
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1290
sentence: 42
flesch: 39
cache: cache/transmotion-636.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-636.txt
summary:
  Brown carefully situates his work within and in connection to Cherokee scholars and Cherokee studies as well as wider bodies of work on nationhood, adding to the growing body of literature that argues literary and intellectual production can play an important role in articulating and asserting tribal nationhood. In Stoking the Fire, Brown traces the complex ways in which the work of historian Rachel Caroline Eaton (1897-1982), novelist John Milton Oskison (1874-1947), educator Ruth Muskrat Bronson (1897-1982), and playwright Rollie Lynn Riggs (1899-1954) remembered, advocated for, and envisioned Cherokee nationhood during a time when the Cherokee state was not functioning.


id: transmotion-885
author: Snyder, Michael
title: Review Essay: Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s (Tiffany Midge)
date: 2020-06-07
pages: 8
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3495
sentence: 151
flesch: 60
cache: cache/transmotion-885.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-885.txt
summary:
  It catalogues moments of Native humor from literary history, concluding: “yes, non-Indian American people, humor does exist among Native American people” (xvi). Microsoft Word - JBM, Snyder, Final.docx Transmotion Vol 6, No 1 (2020) 255 Tiffany Midge.


id: transmotion-865
author: Holmberg, Niillas; Fredriksen, Lill Tove
title: Máttu oahpus / A Lesson from an Ancestor
date: 2019-12-05
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 85
sentence: 5
flesch: 58
cache: cache/transmotion-865.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-865.txt
summary:
  Lill Tove Fredriksen, associate professor of Sámi literature at UiT Microsoft Word - 865-Article Text-4566-1-6-20191117.docx Transmotion Vol 5, No 2 (2019) 90 Niillas Holmberg (born 1990) is a poet, musician, actor, translator and activist from Ohcejohka in Sámiland, Finland.


id: transmotion-892
author: Murdock, Esme G
title: Nitinikiau Innusi: I Keep the Land Alive (Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue)
date: 2020-06-07
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1767
sentence: 77
flesch: 64
cache: cache/transmotion-892.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-892.txt
summary:
  This activism largely took the form of walks and marches, mostly composed of Innu women, to demonstrate the love of land and the unity of purpose in defending Innu lands and nutshimit from the destruction of dominant forces. The memoir illustrates the range of experiences and emotions that Penashue confronts and endures while advocating for Innu lands; at the same time, the memoir also makes clear that these lands form the author’s sense of identity.


id: transmotion-773
author: Beard, Laura
title: Split Tooth (Tanya Tagaq)
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1754
sentence: 97
flesch: 67
cache: cache/transmotion-773.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-773.txt
summary:
  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/534654/split-tooth-by-tanya- tagaq/9780670070091/ In Split Tooth, Tanya Tagaq takes readers into life in a small town in Nunavut in the 1970s. Split Tooth.


id: transmotion-639
author: Watchman, Renae
title: Diné Perspectives: Revitalizing and Reclaiming Navajo Thought (ed. Lloyd L. Lee)
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 7
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3877
sentence: 137
flesch: 43
cache: cache/transmotion-639.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-639.txt
summary:
  Part 4: “Paths for the Future” engages readers to reflect upon how to move forward with active Diné presence that includes examining Diné language and culture loss as well as implementing articles outlined in the UN’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This query invites more queries of why Diné language is not prioritized as part of the contemporary daily Diné life and worldview.


id: transmotion-646
author: Remy-Kovach, Léna
title: Sara Sue Hoklotubbe's Sadie Walela Mystery Series
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1478
sentence: 89
flesch: 56
cache: cache/transmotion-646.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-646.txt
summary:
  Her Sadie Walela series is based in the place where she grew up: Cherokee country in northern Oklahoma. Do not judge the Sadie Walela books by their tacky covers: there is a lot to like in Hoklotubbe’s mystery saga.


id: transmotion-801
author: Golos, Veronica
title: Dissolve (Sherwin Bitsui)
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 942
sentence: 52
flesch: 74
cache: cache/transmotion-801.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-801.txt
summary:
  For example, in discussion with poet Joy Harjo, Bitsui relates trying to re-translate from its English translation, into Navajo, a Li Po poem, which uses the word “wall.” This is important, because Bitsui's mother- tongue is Navajo, or Diné Bizaad, a language of verbs, full of movement, phrases and elegant construction.


id: transmotion-856
author: Carlson, David
date: 2019-12-10
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1222
sentence: 41
flesch: 38
cache: cache/transmotion-856.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-856.txt
title:
  A New Continent of Liberty: Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich (Geoff Hamilton)

summary:
  Once or twice in the book, Hamilton mentions in passing that he is interested in developing a “dialectical framework for understanding American literary history” (2). In doing so, of course, Hamilton remains committed to a fairly conventional model of what constitutes literary history itself (the study of “major” authors and texts, tracing thematic through-lines across time with modest historical contextualization, etc.).


id: transmotion-923
author: Stirrup, David
title: Contributors
date: 2020-06-11
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 829
sentence: 29
flesch: 32
cache: cache/transmotion-923.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-923.txt
summary:
  Her current research focuses on contemporary Native American literature, specifically in connection with issues of globalization and justice. His writings include Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (1998), Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions (2003), an Edinburgh University Press publication which won the 2004 American Book Award, Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction (2009), United States: Re-Viewing American Multicultural Literature (2009) and The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature (2018).


id: transmotion-374
author: Benaway, Gwendolywn
title: Ahkii: a Woman is a Sovereign Land
date: 2017-07-31
pages: 30
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 8646
sentence: 562
flesch: 70
cache: cache/transmotion-374.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-374.txt
summary:
  Victim, hero, Anishinaabe woman. Anishinaabe women accept, Anishinaabe women laugh in the face of violence.


id: transmotion-804
author: Kneubuhl, Victoria
title: Life of the Land (Dana Naone Hall)
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 999
sentence: 43
flesch: 62
cache: cache/transmotion-804.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-804.txt
summary:
  Microsoft Word - Kneubuhl.docx Transmotion Vol 5, No 1 (2019) 362 Dana Naone Hall. ISBN 978-I-883-52844-7. https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/life-of-the-land-articulations-of-a-native-writer/ Life of the Land chronicles the thirty-plus years of the work of Dana Naone Hall in her homeland of the Hawaiian Islands.


id: transmotion-575
author: Toll, Shannon Claire
date: 2019-12-05
pages: 22
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 8716
sentence: 333
flesch: 43
cache: cache/transmotion-575.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-575.txt
title:
  Do You Recognize Who I Am? Decolonizing Rhetorics in Indigenous Rock Opera Something Inside is Broken

summary:
  In Something Inside is Broken, hidden treaties and the enslavement and exploitation of the Nisenan people in particular, and California Native peoples more broadly, are at the heart of Lizzie’s testimony to the Congressional hearing of the Appropriation Act of 1906. Next, Lizzie takes on the role of storyteller as the opera features an important moment of “embodiment” in the song “Emelulu,” in which her testimony comes to life onstage in vignettes that illustrate the difficulties faced by enslaved California Native peoples.


id: transmotion-919
author: Darensbourg, Jeffery U.
title: Hoktiwe (for L. Rain Prud’homme-Cranford)
date: 2020-12-03
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 849
sentence: 99
flesch: 77
cache: cache/transmotion-919.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-919.txt
summary:
  Atakapa Ishakkoy Dictionary. The correct name for the language is “Ishakkoy” (“Human Being Talk”), as “Atakapa” is an exonym and slur historically directed at the tribe by others.2 The primary original source material was gathered in Lake Charles, Louisiana and environs in the 1880’s and 1920’s.


id: transmotion-902
author: Higgins, Marc
title: A World of Many Worlds (Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser, eds.)
date: 2020-06-07
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2461
sentence: 117
flesch: 52
cache: cache/transmotion-902.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-902.txt
summary:
  In outlining the purpose of A World of Many Worlds, the editors expand: To open up the possibility of a world where many worlds fit, it is not enough for the Anthropocene to disrupt the nature and culture divide that makes the world one. The Anthropocene is a reckoning without a road map: we must learn to respond differently to the deeply situated and contingent project of refusing the one world which caused this destruction and slowly, yet urgently (re)open the possibility of a world of many worlds.


id: transmotion-861
author: Snyder, Michael
title: REVIEW ESSAY: Sacred Smokes (Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr.)
date: 2019-12-10
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3155
sentence: 135
flesch: 56
cache: cache/transmotion-861.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-861.txt
summary:
  This raises the question, why is a so-so book such as There There enjoying mega success with Knopf, while Van Alst’s markedly superior Sacred Smokes was published by a Southwestern academic press? In the case of Sacred Smokes, the University of New Mexico Press stresses the selling point of a “story of a Native American gang member in Chicago.”


id: transmotion-870
author: Patton, Noah
date: 2019-12-15
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1577
sentence: 69
flesch: 42
cache: cache/transmotion-870.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-870.txt
title:
  Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story: Teaching American Indian Rhetorics (eds. King, Gubele, and Anderson) and Indigenous Education: New Directions in Theory and Practice, (eds. Tomlins-Jahnke, Styres, Lilley, and Zinga)

summary:
  King, Gubele, and Anderson offer a thoroughly deep look into the practical application of Indigenous rhetorics in the writing classroom. This book is a must-have for any writing teacher who cares about developing a classroom ethos that values and respects Indigenous rhetorics.


id: transmotion-843
author: Bauerkemper, Joseph
date: 2019-12-10
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1032
sentence: 41
flesch: 33
cache: cache/transmotion-843.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-843.txt
title:
  Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous-Settler Relations and Earth Teachings (eds. Asch, Borrows, and Tully)

summary:
  The voices brought together here have a wide array of insights to offer to a wide array of readers, and the collection also succeeds in providing an exceptional one-stop destination for wide and deep learning about Indigenous resurgence and reconciliation in Canadian contexts. A footnote linked to the passage just quoted does suggests that books by Glen Sean Coulthard and Audra Simpson are “taken to be” “the classic texts for resurgence contra reconciliation,” yet the same footnote quickly jettisons substantive consideration of the complexities entailed, concluding that such a pursuit would be “a question for another time” (23, n1).


id: transmotion-778
author: Kruk-Buchowska, Zuzanna
title: Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way: Cooking with Tall Woman (Charlotte J. Frisbie)
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2040
sentence: 77
flesch: 51
cache: cache/transmotion-778.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-778.txt
summary:
  Chapter One, titled “An Overview of the Navajo Diet and Navajo Dietary Research”, starts with a description of Navajo foods in Navajo Emergence stories which, according to different sources, credit different beings with bringing seeds (e.g., corn, beans, and squash) from the Lower Worlds and with creating different animals, such as goats, sheep, and horses. This chapter makes the overall text a great resource for anyone interested in learning about and cooking Navajo foods, both foods that are considered more traditional and those influenced by American foodways, such as the popular frybread.


id: transmotion-797
author: Senier, Siobhan
title: Review Essay: Duane Niatum - a Retrospective
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 7
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3152
sentence: 152
flesch: 59
cache: cache/transmotion-797.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-797.txt
summary:
  Joseph Bruchac put his fellow poet on a par with Simon Ortiz, Siobhan Senier Review Essay: Duane Niatum 235 Leslie Marmon Silko, and James Welch, expressing amazement that Niatum had not by then received more critical attention. Siobhan Senier Review Essay: Duane Niatum 239 In a much-quoted statement, Niatum once disavowed the idea of a Native aesthetic (“On Stereotypes” 554).


id: transmotion-651
author: Slocum, Melissa Michal
title: INTRODUCTION: There Is No Question of American Indian Genocide
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 30
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 12457
sentence: 680
flesch: 54
cache: cache/transmotion-651.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-651.txt
summary:
  When genocide stories are excluded from the national dialogue and mindset and not taught within national educational institutions, there is an erasure of stories detailing the long extermination: a removal from land, a removal from family, a removal of ways of knowing replaced with colonized ways, and finally a removal of histories and stories from national systems. But if the dominant culture still does not recognize genocide stories, those deaths go unresolved.


id: transmotion-867
author: Berlo, Janet Catherine
title: Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract (Philip J. Deloria)
date: 2019-12-10
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1183
sentence: 84
flesch: 64
cache: cache/transmotion-867.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-867.txt
summary:
  But with few exceptions (Anthes 2006), scholars of Native North American art have turned to this phenomenon only recently (Phillips 2010, 2015, Harney and Phillips 2018). His scrutiny of these astonishingly complex works, which veer from the representational to the abstract and decorative, wrestles not only with family biography but with the cultural history of modernism in art, as well as what modernism meant to twentieth-century Native people.


id: transmotion-853
author: Barrett-Mills, Jake
date: 2019-12-10
pages: 7
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3675
sentence: 155
flesch: 42
cache: cache/transmotion-853.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-853.txt
title:
  REVIEW ESSAY: Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case (Kent Roach)

summary:
  I do not doubt Roach’s intentions, but as the breadth of his investigation should suggest, enriching the state of Canada “by greater awareness of, and respect for, Indigenous law” (232) is unequivocally not a responsibility of Indigenous communities; it is a hitherto enforced legacy. Despite the aforementioned paucity of Indigenous critics, Roach never descends into prescription—there is no pretension to fully understand nor judge Indigenous laws, only a demand for the space for Indigenous communities to define and apply these laws (229).


id: transmotion-955
author: Carlson, David
title: Editorial
date: 2020-11-15
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1048
sentence: 30
flesch: 33
cache: cache/transmotion-955.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-955.txt
summary:
  The novel's organizing principle of spiralic time puts Indigenous youth at the center, a move that helps further highlight the temporal aspect central to the Idle No More movement. Writing directly to Indigenous youth to invite them to see themselves as part of a continuing spiral of Indigenous presence going back to when time began and continuing into a time when they themselves will be ancestors, Dimaline emphasizes Indigenous youth’s central role in resurgence, both within and beyond Idle No More.


id: transmotion-857
author: Melanie Yazzie
title: Red Prophet: The Punishing Intellectualism of Vine Deloria, Jr. (David E. Wilkins)
date: 2019-12-10
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1031
sentence: 32
flesch: 34
cache: cache/transmotion-857.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-857.txt
summary:
  Anyone familiar with Deloria’s career might recite his influence on landmark legal battles over the interpretation and enforcement of treaty rights and tribal sovereignty, and with its named focus on detailing and highlighting Deloria’s contributions to Native policy and politics, Red Prophet is primarily about these key aspects of his work. Interspersed with the author’s personal correspondence with Vine Deloria over the course of two decades, the catalogue of Deloria’s policy contributions is impressive.


id: transmotion-890
author: Doerfler, Jill
title: Our War Paint Is Writers’ Ink: Anishinaabe Literary Transnationalism (Adam Spry)
date: 2020-06-07
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1195
sentence: 46
flesch: 44
cache: cache/transmotion-890.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-890.txt
summary:
  He traces the complex history of this drama and identifies it as a point of convergence, drawing connections to earlier Anishinaabe writers, Euro-American writers, and contemporary Anishinaabe writers, asserting that we can both acknowledge the complications of this work while also celebrating it as an act of Anishinaabe persistence and survival. While there is an astounding and diverse body of work, he details a clear pattern of Anishinaabe writers presenting their nation as strong and legitimate.


id: transmotion-961
author: McGlennon, Molly
title: Unearthing Secrets, Gathering Truths (Jules Arita Koostachin)
date: 2020-12-04
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1252
sentence: 51
flesch: 58
cache: cache/transmotion-961.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-961.txt
summary:
  The collection’s biography tells the reader that Koostachin was born in Moose Factory Ontario, raised by her Cree- speaking grandparents in Moosonee and her mother, a survivor of the Canadian residential school system. The biography also interestingly reveals how Koostachin—a band member of Attawapiskat First Nation, Moshkekowok territory—has “established herself within the film and television community” throughout Canada and the United States, winning awards in documentary and film work, acting, and directing.


id: transmotion-935
author: Brignell, Rhy
title: Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power (Tai S. Edwards)
date: 2020-12-03
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1171
sentence: 49
flesch: 42
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summary:
  Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power. Edwards opens Osage Women and Empire by quoting correspondence from Christian missionary Reverend William F. Vaill, published in 1827 by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.


id: transmotion-916
author: Andrews, Scott
title: Moccasin Square Gardens (Richard Van Camp)
date: 2020-12-03
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1161
sentence: 77
flesch: 69
cache: cache/transmotion-916.pdf
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summary:
  Scott Andrews Review of Moccasin Square Gardens 180 “The Promise” and “Man Babies” are stories from the sentimental category. They continue the Van Camp pattern of telling stories of male competition or friendship; his male-female relationships are almost always romantic.


id: transmotion-775
author: Lopenzina, Drew
title: Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War (Lisa Brooks)
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1838
sentence: 56
flesch: 43
cache: cache/transmotion-775.pdf
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summary:
  But Brooks’ reading of these documents also helps clarify the way Indigenous leaders were also attempting to shape and interpret the nature of these agreements. Her research suggests that Indigenous leaders began to broker a truce in May of 1676 and proceeded under the assumption that both the settlers and Natives would return to their homes in time to plant for spring.


id: transmotion-924
author: Veeraraghavan, Lee
date: 2020-12-03
pages: 8
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3311
sentence: 144
flesch: 49
cache: cache/transmotion-924.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-924.txt
title:
  Review Essay: Music and Modernity Among First Peoples of North America (Victoria Lindsay Levine and Dylan Robinson, eds.); Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America (Kyle T. Mays)

summary:
  In this book, I make one major claim: Indigenous hip hop might be one of the most important cultural forces that has hit Indigenous North America since the Ghost Dance movement in the late nineteenth century. It might otherwise be easy for the reader to lose sight of the fact that while the world of Indigenous hip hop exists at the intersection of multiple force vectors, it is a musical world.


id: transmotion-873
author: Graham Jones, Stephen
title: The Truth About Yoda
date: 2019-12-05
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 690
sentence: 47
flesch: 84
cache: cache/transmotion-873.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-873.txt
summary:
  What really gives away that Star Wars is Native, though, it’s Yoda. Broad-stroke, Star Wars is a crew of die-hard rebels pitted against the big dark evil Empire—the Empire that has wave after wave of white infantry to send out into the (star)field.


id: transmotion-847
author: Tudor, Rachel
title: Through an Indian's Looking Glass: A Cultural Biography of William Apess, Pequot (Drew Lopenzina)
date: 2019-12-10
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2894
sentence: 128
flesch: 51
cache: cache/transmotion-847.pdf
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summary:
  The aspersion that Apess died of alcoholism has been so embedded in our culture that Robert Warrior’s “Eulogy on William Apess” repeats it—albeit in sympathetic language. Native American readers will appreciate the poignant and painful anecdotes from Apess’s texts that Lopenzina highlights as symptomatic of the ills that still plague our lived lives.


id: transmotion-906
author: Sear, Victoria
title: Reading Life with Gwich’in: An Educational Approach (Jan Peter Laurens Loovers)
date: 2020-06-07
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1190
sentence: 41
flesch: 43
cache: cache/transmotion-906.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-906.txt
summary:
  https://www.crcpress.com/Reading-Life-with-Gwichin-An-Educational- Approach/Loovers/p/book/9781138616691 In Reading Life with Gwich’in: An Educational Approach, Jan Peter Laurens Loovers revisits two years of ethnographic fieldwork and historical research that he undertook with Teetłʼit Gwich’in people living in Fort McPherson, in Canada’s Northwest Territories. In the history chapters, Loovers weaves together different historical records and shared memories to give a history of Teetłʼit Gwich’in people and their histories with, and connections to, their land and place.


id: transmotion-571
author: Garsha, Jeremiah
date: 2019-06-26
pages: 28
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 11973
sentence: 620
flesch: 51
cache: cache/transmotion-571.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-571.txt
title:
  Red Paint: Transnational Movements of Deconstructing, Decolonizing, and Defacing Colonial Structures

summary:
  Red paint has a specific symbolic nature when cast onto established colonial structures.7 With its ease of access and bright eye-catching hue, red paint as a form of protest writing is ubiquitous. Red paint as blood became an effective shorthand to reference historical and ongoing violence against Indigenous people.26 Grounded in the protest movements of American Indians, it is this use of red paint that has been picked up by Indigenous activists internationally.


id: transmotion-958
author: Jobin, Danne
title: Bury Me in Thunder (syan jay)
date: 2021-08-11
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1672
sentence: 80
flesch: 65
cache: cache/transmotion-958.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-958.txt
summary:
  While Bury Me in Thunder brushes a devastating portrait of how body and language are affected by colonisation, poetry also functions as a tool to describe and reclaim experience in order to envision alternatives. Manifestations of trauma are imprinted onto land and bodies, as in “Before the Land Breaks”: “I breathe in, there is coppered earth on my tongue.


id: transmotion-862
author: Carlson, David
title: Editorial
date: 2019-12-05
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1001
sentence: 31
flesch: 31
cache: cache/transmotion-862.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-862.txt
summary:
  Analyzing Indigenous images from vastly different geographical and colonial contexts, he suggests, allows us to find common colonial images that Transmotion Vol 5, No 2 (2019) ii Indigenous image makers strategically deconstruct and remake in performative acts of inter- tribal sovereignty. Cottrell explores that ways that ethnographic museums create and communicate a taste for American Indian art through their acquisition practices and their “rhetorics of value.”


id: transmotion-672
author: Stirrup, David
title: Author Biographies
date: 2018-12-30
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1378
sentence: 61
flesch: 46
cache: cache/transmotion-672.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-672.txt
summary:
  She earned a PhD in Native American Studies from University of California, Davis and an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. She is the author of a collection of poetry Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits, published by Salt’s award-winning “Earthworks Series” of Indigenous writers, and a critical monograph Creative Alliances: The Transnational Designs of Indigenous Transmotion Vol 4, No 2 (2018) 252 Women’s Poetry from University of Oklahoma Press, which earned the Beatrice Medicine Award for outstanding scholarship in American Indian Literature.


id: transmotion-991
author: Schaak, Hogan
title: Satie on the Seine: Letters to the Heirs of the Fur Trade (Gerald Vizenor)
date: 2021-08-11
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1600
sentence: 100
flesch: 71
cache: cache/transmotion-991.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-991.txt
summary:
  To tease manifest inheritance is to choose Native provenance over the manifest manners of History. The furry totems of death—beaver skins, martin, and mink, worn as a sign of ironic posturing over those starving in tattered clothes being scolded for eating city pigeons—are reinstated as Transmotion Vol 7, No 1 (2021) 275 totems of Native provenance in the stories of the new fur trade.


id: transmotion-997
author: Hamilton, Geoff
title: Native Provenance (Gerald Vizenor)
date: 2021-08-11
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1727
sentence: 61
flesch: 38
cache: cache/transmotion-997.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-997.txt
summary:
  In fact, the vital expression of “natural motion” by Native American authors can, for Vizenor, be traced and honored in a de facto canon. The betrayal of that legacy includes, for Vizenor, the authors of “commercial literary victimry” (40), as well as theorists such as Michael Dorris, who have “resisted the concept of a singular native literary aesthetics” (126), and David Treuer (Leech Lake Ojibwe), who “rarely observes in his commentaries the marvelous visionary traces of native transmotion and aesthetics” (127).


id: transmotion-855
author: Wolf, Katie
date: 2019-12-15
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1873
sentence: 61
flesch: 35
cache: cache/transmotion-855.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-855.txt
title:
  Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health (Devon A. Mihesuah and Elizabeth Hoover, eds)

summary:
  In an attempt to advocate for a return to food structures through Indigenous sovereignty after the damages of colonial practices and political structures have taken a toll on diverse tribal communities throughout the country, Mihesuah and Hoover incorporate interviews from members of different tribes who detail their personal experiences with food systems and their goals to attain Indigenous food sovereignty. Her foreword to the book emphasizes the idea of returning to Indigenous food practices and the ways that individuals or communities have actively initiated these processes to counter the extreme damages from the food industry.


id: transmotion-759
author: Lee, A. Robert
title: Electronic Computer and Stub Pencil: Poetry and the Writing-in of Ralph Salisbury
date: 2020-05-28
pages: 18
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 5929
sentence: 264
flesch: 66
cache: cache/transmotion-759.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-759.txt
summary:
  “Oil Spills, 1966, 1989” (69)—given over to the Torre Canyon reef collision off Land’s End, Cornwall, the worst in UK history, and again to the Exxon Valdez— connects Salisbury family history to each disaster. Microsoft Word - 759-Article Text-4792-1-11-20200306.docx Transmotion Vol 6, No 1 (2020) 1 Electronic Computer and Stub Pencil: Poetry and the Writing-in of Ralph Salisbury A. ROBERT LEE On an electronic computer’s memory chip I am writing about myself as a writer -- a dog chasing its own tail… Most of my poetry and much of my fiction has been composed with a stub pencil.


id: transmotion-956
author: Gray, Kathryn N.
date: 2020-12-03
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1155
sentence: 45
flesch: 38
cache: cache/transmotion-956.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-956.txt
title:
  Walking to Magdalena: Personhood and Place in Tohono O’odham Songs, Sticks, and Stories (Seth Schermerhorn)

summary:
  Chapter five, where divergent claims about the where, when, and how of Catholic influence on O’odham culture emerges, draws the strands of the book together: people are connected to places rather than times, and lived experience, the everyday, navigates ancestral and conceptual landscapes. Importantly, this exploration of Indigenous Christianity is not driven by time-markers but by lived experiences and cultural memory.


id: transmotion-936
author: Apache, Crisosto
title: Seed (Janice Gould)
date: 2020-12-03
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1674
sentence: 84
flesch: 64
cache: cache/transmotion-936.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-936.txt
summary:
  The written word Gould displays become the objects and personas that depict her in this collection. Gould’s poetic journey uses language to express the emotion and experience in her struggle to accept her many facets of identity.


id: transmotion-897
author: Brown Spiers, Miriam
title: Communities of Grief: Surviving War in the Fiction of Ralph Salisbury
date: 2020-05-28
pages: 30
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 9996
sentence: 340
flesch: 52
cache: cache/transmotion-897.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-897.txt
summary:
  In The Indian Who Bombed Berlin, those wars are completely immersive: although the stories rarely describe Miriam Brown Spiers “Communities of Grief” 42 scenes of active duty, each conflict remains alive as the protagonists tell war stories and struggle to return to civilian life. Beyond dealing with the physical injuries and trauma borne of combat, however, Bernstein emphasizes that American Indian veterans’ “sudden and unprecedented exposure to the white world contributed to a new consciousness of what it meant to be an American Indian, and a sharpened awareness of the gap between the standard of living on most reservations and in the rest of American society” (171).


id: transmotion-931
author: Krauss, Cassandra
title: War and Violence
date: 2021-08-13
pages: 24
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 7650
sentence: 313
flesch: 52
cache: cache/transmotion-931.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-931.txt
summary:
  The dates given correspond to wars between Native tribes (primarily the Lakota Sioux), defending their lands and treaty rights, and the U.S. government, striving for more land and resources, motivated by greed and racism.11 The link drawn between the elders and Felix’s modern experiences carries this first global war into the circle of violence perpetrated by the U.S., stressing both the constancy of war and alluding to the necessity of violence in maintaining the U.S. nation state. (Mumford) Like Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, or Ian McEwan’s Atonement, both genre- defining war novels, Prudence collapses the distinctions between past and present, between here and over there.1 This collapse allows for a profound exploration of violence, demonstrating its pervasive reach.


id: transmotion-814
author: Madsen, Deborah
date: 2019-12-09
pages: 14
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 7872
sentence: 314
flesch: 39
cache: cache/transmotion-814.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-814.txt
title:
  REVIEW ESSAY: Expanding Settler Colonial Theory: Empire of the People: Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought (Adam Dahl).

summary:
  Elsewhere, Dahl overwhelmingly addresses settler political theorists in the interests of illuminating the central contradiction of US settler colonialism: that settler political sovereignty, grounded in the right to self-government based on labor devoted to the “improvement” of expropriated Native land, requires the disavowal of the violence of dispossession and also the denial of Indigenous land rights based not on political reasoning but inherited racialized cultural prejudices. Rather, in a detailed and persuasive account of prevailing debates about states’ rights and federal constitutionalism, he argues that Apess’s interventions in Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe; or, The Pretended Riot Explained (1833) and Eulogy on King Philip (1836) must be read through the concept of “nullification” as at once a refusal of US settler sovereignty and a powerful narrativizing strategy that performatively exposes “democracy’s constitutive exclusions” (160).


id: transmotion-891
author: Cooper, Lydia
date: 2020-06-07
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2803
sentence: 120
flesch: 59
cache: cache/transmotion-891.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-891.txt
title:
  Drawing Fire: A Pawnee, Artist, and Thunderbird in World War II (Brummett Echohawk with Mark R. Ellenbarger)

summary:
  Echohawk remarks that he knows his men have practiced squad tactics, but he is reluctant to simply shout orders, even in Lydia Cooper Review of Drawing Fire 286 this fear-drenched moment. In addition to artistic language, Drawing Fire contains reproductions of many of Echohawk’s drawings; the book is worth the purchase for these astonishing works alone.


id: transmotion-920
author: Berry, Eleanor
title: The Poetry of Ralph Salisbury: Syntax as Vehicle for Conveying an Ethical Vision
date: 2020-06-07
pages: 20
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 5809
sentence: 190
flesch: 52
cache: cache/transmotion-920.pdf
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summary:
  The poem “Out of the Rusty Teeth,” published a couple of years before that interview, in the collection Going to the Water: Poems from a Cherokee Heritage, invites readers to follow, through a syntax of piled-on appositives and absolute constructions, a train of impassioned thought. Light from a Bullet Hole: Poems New and Selected, 1950-2008.


id: transmotion-894
author: Tatonetti, Lisa
title: Poetry, Activism, and Queer Indigenous Imaginative Landscapes: Conversations with Janice Gould
date: 2020-12-03
pages: 27
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 9050
sentence: 458
flesch: 70
cache: cache/transmotion-894.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-894.txt
summary:
  A few days later, my older sister and I went to the Friendship House in Oakland and spoke with an older Indian gentleman there who told us that Alcatraz was thought to be a place of bad luck for California Indian people, and he kindly discouraged us from trying to go there. While the number of California Indian writers is growing today, when I began publishing there were only a few others that I knew of—Frank La Pena, for one.


id: transmotion-959
author: Carroll, Alicia
title: Authorized Agents: Publication and Diplomacy in the Era of Indian Removal (Frank Kelderman)
date: 2020-12-03
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2014
sentence: 54
flesch: 15
cache: cache/transmotion-959.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-959.txt
summary:
  http://www.sunypress.edu/showproduct.aspx?ProductID=6762&SEName=authorized- agents Authorized Agents analyzes the relationship between Native American literature and Indian diplomacy in the nineteenth century from the Missouri River Valley to the Great Lakes. Offering the term “authorized agents” to name Indian diplomats, writers, intellectuals, and tribal leaders who participated in an array of collaborative publication projects that brought Native perspectives of American imperialism into the public sphere, Kelderman’s study of literature produced through Indian diplomacy pays due attention to a body of work that has been previously underexamined in the field of Native American literature.


id: transmotion-981
author: Jones-Matrona, Kasey
title: Indigenous Anthropocenes in Poetry
date: 2021-11-17
pages: 27
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 8067
sentence: 467
flesch: 58
cache: cache/transmotion-981.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-981.txt
summary:
  These are Mvskoke Anthropocene ghosts. (275) As Kimmerer listens to lichens and communicates their invaluable lessons, Foerster looks to nonhumans and Mvskoke Anthropocene ghosts to inform humans how the world has changed, is currently changing, and how to translate catastrophe into healing.


id: transmotion-999
author: Hudson, Brian K
title: The Road Where the People Cried (Geary Hobson)
date: 2021-08-11
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1032
sentence: 46
flesch: 61
cache: cache/transmotion-999.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-999.txt
summary:
  The book is at once a celebration of where we are today as Cherokee people and a reminder of how we got here. Hobson’s book, which features beautiful cover art by the late Janet Lamon Smith, focuses on several figures in Cherokee history, along with fictional characters whose voices ring true.


id: transmotion-907
author: Dixon, Nathan Bradford
title: Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers (Jake Skeets)
date: 2020-06-07
pages: 7
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2663
sentence: 119
flesch: 70
cache: cache/transmotion-907.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-907.txt
summary:
  It is “white space” on which the poetic persona arranges his “father’s boarding school soap bones” in order to call the arrangement “a poem,” and “white space” on which the face of the persona’s uncle “becomes a mirror,” until a train horn punch shatters the mirror frees him from the page my uncle leaps from the (56) Here, the stanza breaks off mid-thought, and the facing page—a blank page—thus becomes the white space from which the uncle has lept, or rather, is leaping. The following three words indicate a state of being at some point in the future, but serve less as a prediction than as an assertion, as if by stressing beauty (the sixth word, the thing itself, the subject of the sentence), Skeets might bring it into being.


id: transmotion-908
author: Wendt, Ingrid
title: The Vitruvian Man and Beyond
date: 2020-05-28
pages: 39
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 11687
sentence: 370
flesch: 58
cache: cache/transmotion-908.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-908.txt
summary:
  ”25 Titles of other poems reveal Ralph’s commitment to go beyond the limits of felt experience. Unique to Ralph’s own vision, however, as we see in other lines of “A Declaration…” and in other poems, is his recognition of past human innovations and human contributions that have gone into improving and benefitting our lives today.


id: transmotion-760
author: Grover, Linda LeGarde
title: Palominos Near Tuba City (Denise Sweet)
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1117
sentence: 38
flesch: 55
cache: cache/transmotion-760.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-760.txt
summary:
  I hardly knew what to say -- ” It is easy to picture Sweet re-living the time spent with the old man as she organized her work in this collection; this reviewer, a longtime admirer of her work, did just that. Microsoft Word - Grover.docx Transmotion Vol 5, No 1 (2019) 353 Denise Sweet.


id: transmotion-898
author: Andrews, Jennifer
title: The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History (James H. Cox)
date: 2020-06-07
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 995
sentence: 26
flesch: 25
cache: cache/transmotion-898.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-898.txt
summary:
  By drawing on a range of historical and contemporary texts, outside of the early Native American Renaissance Period of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Cox’s study offers a series of “confounding but also generative collisions of conservative, moderate, and progressive ideas that together constitute the rich political landscape of American Indian literary history” (1). And by selecting a relatively recent and highly charged set of contexts, Cox demonstrates the need to think about relationality when analyzing American Indian literary history.


id: transmotion-957
author: Sear, Victoria
title: Talking Indian: Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance (Jenny L. Davis)
date: 2020-12-03
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1258
sentence: 40
flesch: 31
cache: cache/transmotion-957.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-957.txt
summary:
  Victoria Sear Review of Talking Indian 191 Early in her discussion, Davis positions herself as a Chickasaw Nation citizen who grew up several hours’ drive from the Nation and proposes that both historical and present diaspora and de-diasporization of Chickasaw citizens contributes, in part, to the formation of Chickasaw identity as it relates to an ongoing Chickasaw Renaissance (13). Davis uses language revitalization as a lens through which to better understand Chickasaw identity as well as how Chickasaw people are leading a Chickasaw language and cultural renaissance—which necessarily entails working to profoundly disrupt this “double-bind”—on their own terms.


id: transmotion-933
author: Madsen, Deborah L.
title: Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance (James J. Donahue)
date: 2020-12-03
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1313
sentence: 40
flesch: 28
cache: cache/transmotion-933.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-933.txt
summary:
  Dennis broke relatively new ground by setting aside the literary nationalist debates that dominated Indigenous studies in the early 2000s in order to privilege the narratological analysis of textual form over political and cultural content, a move perhaps most familiar to readers of Transmotion through the call made by David Treuer, in Native American Fiction: A User's Manual (2006), to reorient the literary analysis of Indigenous texts away from ethnography and towards a greater emphasis on aesthetics. And while Donahue’s modelling of Indigenous fiction through a non-Indigenous methodology bears some similarity to Catherine Rainwater’s semiotic approach in Dreams of Fiery Stars: The Transformations of Native American Fiction (1999), he distinguishes his project from hers by (mis)identifying a focus in Rainwater’s work on “storytelling as opposed to the narrative form itself” that, he claims, leads into issues of orality rather than written literature (22).


id: transmotion-985
author: Perez-Garcia, Fernando
title: This Planet Knows my Name
date: 2021-11-17
pages: 25
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 7599
sentence: 312
flesch: 37
cache: cache/transmotion-985.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-985.txt
summary:
  By eliminating Indigenous worldviews through its absorption in western gnoseology, territorial dispossession, and the exploitation of resources in Indigenous lands can be perpetuated. And yet, when the legitimacy of colonial authority is materially questioned or subject to direct action—such as the riot of the novella’s fosterlings, or roadblocks to impede access to Indigenous lands and prevent resource extraction—we see the emergence of explicitly violent countermeasures, with the deployment of snipers, dogs, and RCMP commandos to expel activists and resume the extraction of resources that maintains the settler state’s economy.


id: transmotion-825
author: Alberts, Crystal K
title: Making the Leap: the Poetry of César Vallejo and Ralph Salisbury
date: 2020-05-28
pages: 28
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 9524
sentence: 371
flesch: 57
cache: cache/transmotion-825.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-825.txt
summary:
  Even though, by twenty-first century standards, Bly merely reinforces of the stereotypes of Latin Americans as deeply passionate and the Romantic vision of Indigenous peoples as Noble Savages, Bly would emphasize this reading of Vallejo time and again. Moreover, because he did embrace what Bly describes as the leaping methods of César Vallejo, not to mention a desire to produce if not revolutionary then at least socially responsible art, Vallejo becomes central to understanding Salisbury's work both in terms of form and content.


id: transmotion-978
author: RunningHawk Johnson, Stephany; Jacob, Michelle
title: Educating for Indigenous Futurities
date: 2022-05-10
pages: 33
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 9984
sentence: 417
flesch: 41
cache: cache/transmotion-978.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-978.txt
summary:
  Indigenous teachers working with Indigenous students can and do make possible the inclusion of Indigenous futurities within public schooling institutions, in fact, having “community- based Indigenous educators to serve Indigenous youth is paramount for helping Tribal RunningHawk Johnson & Jacob “Educating for Indigenous Futurities” 181 nations and their citizens to build both a strong and present future” (Anthony-Stevens et el. 19). We—Indigenous peoples and Indigenous teachers—are contemporary and hopeful; we persevere, and we change and adapt using our cultural knowledges.


id: transmotion-993
author: Smiles, Deondre
title: Review Essay: Repatriation and Erasing the Past (Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer)
date: 2021-08-11
pages: 8
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3408
sentence: 132
flesch: 45
cache: cache/transmotion-993.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-993.txt
summary:
  Through anthropological and archaeological research, Weiss and Springer argue, aspects of Indigenous history – such as the size of the Indigenous population in the Americas pre-colonization, social structures among Indigenous nations, violence between Indigenous nations, and disease among Indigenous individuals – can be uncovered in what they view as an unbiased way. Weiss and Springer begin the book by asserting that Indigenous nations in North America have created a landscape where anthropological study of the Indigenous dead is stymied by moves towards allowing Indigenous nations and their ontologies to take the lead in determining access to Indigenous remains.


id: transmotion-918
author: Mackay, James
title: Sweatlodge in the Apocalypse: A Conversation with Smokii Sumac
date: 2020-12-14
pages: 21
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 7418
sentence: 464
flesch: 82
cache: cache/transmotion-918.pdf
txt: txt/transmotion-918.txt
summary:
  It's revolutionary for Indigenous people to represent ourselves. I’m thinking about naming as a practice that allows us to understand who we are: as Indigenous people, as Ktunaxa people, as Transmotion Vol 6, No 2 (2020) 127 adoptees, as Two-Spirit people, that kind of stuff.


id: transmotion-921
author: Mackay, James
title: Introduction: Cherokee Modern
date: 2020-06-09
pages: 7
extension: .pdf
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words: 1964
sentence: 60
flesch: 50
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summary:
  Most if not all of this must have come from books – James Mooney makes several appearances – and it is true that one would not study Salisbury for an authentic insider account of Cherokee community. And the writer that is the focus of this entire issue, Ralph Salisbury, has undoubtedly not received his critical due.


id: transmotion-807
author: De Vos, Laura Maria
date: 2020-12-03
pages: 42
extension: .pdf
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words: 13331
sentence: 527
flesch: 51
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title:
  Spiralic Time and Cultural Continuity for Indigenous Sovereignty: Idle No More and The Marrow Thieves

summary:
  In this way, the genre pushes back on the limited vision offered by linear settler temporality—where Indigenous people can only ever be “authentic” in some faraway past—and instead evidences the possibilities for Indigenous futures informed and embraced by their relations across time. This relationship to what came before is not merely one of repeating a sterile past, but one of an unstoppable continuation of peoplehoods, transformed in and for each moment, always with an eye on creating a thriving future for Indigenous peoples.


id: transmotion-960
author: Radocay, Jonathan
title: Aurum: Poems (Santee Frazier)
date: 2020-12-03
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1874
sentence: 92
flesch: 55
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summary:
  The epigraph of Aurum, taken from Uruguayan political journalist and writer Eduardo Galeano’s poem, “Los Nadies” (“The Nobodies”), introduces the lyrical subjects of Santee Frazier’s (Cherokee Nation) latest poetry collection. “‘Those People that are Invisible’: An Interview with Santee Frazier.”


id: transmotion-576
author: McKenzie-Jones, Paul R
date: 2019-07-01
pages: 28
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 11354
sentence: 467
flesch: 42
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title:
  Indigenous Activism, Community Sustainability, and the Constraints of CANZUS Settler-Colonial Nationhood.

summary:
  Whether there is enough strength in numbers and resources for Indigenous nations to ultimately halt and even subvert settler-nationhood to levels where Indigenous Peoples are recognized as equals rather than inconvenient barriers is a question with no present answer. This is despite these same mythologies framing those Indigenous Peoples in historical opposition to western settlement and nationhood, and legal precedents in each settler nation directly connecting their legal relationships with Indigenous Peoples to their prior colonial-settler status.3 In the US, Chief Justice John Marshall’s argument of inherited rights of discovery in the Supreme Court decision that rendered Indigenous communities as “domestic dependent nations” still stands (Cherokee Nation v. Georgia).


id: transmotion-965
author: Bordeaux, Clementine; Ramos, Kenneth; Taylor, Arianna
title: Hunger for Culture
date: 2021-08-09
pages: 28
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 7993
sentence: 498
flesch: 50
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summary:
  Our analysis of Urban Rez weaves together an opportunity to understand a theater experience not grounded in the confines of settler logics, with one of understanding Indigenous theater as a space for inclusive and relational representation. We come to Two-Spirit identities from the activism of Indigenous communities in the 1990s.


id: transmotion-901
author: Higgins, David
title: Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity (Laura Harjo)
date: 2020-06-07
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2196
sentence: 74
flesch: 44
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summary:
  If este-cate sovereignty rejects the feeling that Mvskoke people are powerless and encourages them to recognize their already-existing capacities, community knowledge overturns the idea that Indigenous ways of knowing are valueless and emboldens Mvskoke people to love and honor the truth of their individual and collective experiences. (This accessibility is vital given that Spiral to the Stars emerges from specific conversations with Mvskoke communities and aims to help people in these communities create realistic pathways toward better futures.)


id: transmotion-909
author: Bernardin, Susan
title: Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy (Joe Lockard and A. Robert Lee, eds.)
date: 2020-06-07
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2528
sentence: 98
flesch: 49
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summary:
  Notably, I was puzzled why the co-editors did not confront more directly and definitively Owens’s part in “a number of theory controversies” (3), for example the high-profile, often personal conflicts involving Susan Bernardin Review of Louis Owens: In their introduction, Lee and Lockard acknowledge a still “wide-open field for Owens studies” (7).


id: transmotion-934
author: Perry, Emma Catherine
title: Postcolonial Love Poem (Natalie Diaz)
date: 2020-12-03
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1461
sentence: 61
flesch: 59
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summary:
  https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/postcolonial-love-poem In Postcolonial Love Poem, the eagerly-anticipated follow up to her American Book Award-winning debut When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012), Natalie Diaz offers readers intellectual complexity, formal diversity, and remarkably capacious lyrical attention. Transmotion Vol 6, No 2 (2020) 154 Postcolonial Love Poem is a rich collection with a wide and glittering array of poems on offer.


id: transmotion-896
author: Daewes, Birgit
date: 2020-06-07
pages: 9
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3300
sentence: 142
flesch: 46
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txt: txt/transmotion-896.txt
title:
  Review Essay: Developing Indigenous Visual Arts Transnationally and Across Genres: Visualities 2: More Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art (Denise K. Cummings, ed.)

summary:
  The two volumes on Visualities, expertly edited by Denise K. Cummings, laudably continue this work in both fields of Indigenous film and Indigenous art history across North America, and expand it by dimensions of transnational (or trans-Indigenous, to use Chad Allen’s successful term) connection, of genre-crossing, and of transmediality. Indeed, in the first two decades of the new millennium, Indigenous North American film has become a highly prominent genre, as productions and events around the world demonstrate: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Augsburg University in Minneapolis; Edmonton, Ottawa; Chaco, Argentina; Inari, Finland; and even Stuttgart, Germany all host annual Indigenous film and/or media festivals.


id: transmotion-996
author: Spry, Adam
title: What the Chickadee Knows/Gijigijigaaneshiinh Gikendaan (Margaret Noodin)
date: 2021-08-11
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1296
sentence: 60
flesch: 59
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summary:
  Often glossed as “relative” or “ancestor,” Professor Noodin explained that aanikoobjigan actually refers to anyone more than two generations removed from the speaker—either a great- great-grandparent or a great-great grandchild. Therefore “aanikoobjiganag,” as Prof. Noodin explained, describes those who bind us to the present—the relations who tie us to both our past and our future.


id: transmotion-954
author: Clark, Madeleine
title: “No one will touch your body unless you say so”
date: 2021-08-11
pages: 26
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 7639
sentence: 380
flesch: 52
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txt: txt/transmotion-954.txt
summary:
  They are culturally specific to Indigenous Australian trans people and have been collectively negotiated and agreed on as terms which can be used widely by Indigenous people from all nations. Microsoft Word - ClarkFINAL.docx Madeleine Clark “Normativity… in Australian Indigenous Writing” 132 “No one will touch your body unless you say so”: Normativity and Bodily Autonomy in Australian Indigenous Writing MADELEINE CLARK Introduction In writing by Indigenous trans people from the 1990s to the present, trans existence is frequently affirmed as a part of Indigenous cultures which has persisted from pre- colonial times.


id: transmotion-927
author: Scudeler, June
title: “You Can’t Be an NDN in Today’s World:”
date: 2021-08-11
pages: 39
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 11681
sentence: 580
flesch: 67
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txt: txt/transmotion-927.txt
summary:
  In IRL, Pico references epic poetry by wryly appreciating the queerness in Greek poetry: “Srsly / who didn’t love the Greek / shit as a kid? / Microsoft Word - ScudelerFINAL.docx Transmotion Vol 7, No 1 (2021) 158 “You Can’t Be an NDN in Today’s World:” Tommy Pico’s Queer NDN Epic Poems JUNE SCUDELER From the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay Nation, Tommy Pico, the author of Nature Poem (2017) won the 2018 Whiting Award, with the committee calling his book a “contemporary epic.”


id: transmotion-986
author: Bladow, Kyle
title: “The Future That Haunts Us Now”
date: 2021-11-17
pages: 21
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 6052
sentence: 260
flesch: 41
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summary:
  For instance, the context of global climate change offers no shortage of opportunities to compare degrees of what Whyte terms “ecological redundancy”—the ability to repeat and maintain interactive processes like gathering food within environments—given that climate change is everywhere affecting or even dismantling the conditions for such redundancy. For dystopian climate fiction in particular, empathy might be one affective response observed alongside readers’ engagement of anxieties about climate change and may further elicit exploration of newer emotive phenomena such as solastalgia (Albrecht).


id: transmotion-930
author: Jacobs, Thomas Donald
title: Lighting the Fire: A Cherokee Journey from Dropout to Professor (Steve Russell)
date: 2020-12-03
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1973
sentence: 102
flesch: 64
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summary:
  Now, Russell is an award-winning journalist, with numerous Thomas Donald Jacobs Review of Lighting the Fire 175 op-eds to his credit in (among others) Indian Country Today and the Cherokee Phoenix, some of which have formed the basis for published collections of essays such as Ceremonies of Innocence and Ray Sixkiller's Cherokee Nation. Microsoft Word - Jacobs-Final.docx Transmotion Vol 6, No 2 (2020) 174 Steve Russell.


id: transmotion-836
author: Schaak, Hogan
title: The Physical Presence of Survivance in The Heirs of Columbus
date: 2020-12-03
pages: 25
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 8153
sentence: 430
flesch: 59
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summary:
  Importantly, this process never ends; as each new person in Point Assinika brings with them new stories to be shared and integrated alongside a new set of genes. His novel The Heirs of Columbus (1991) follows the lovers Stone Columbus and Felipa Flowers as they repatriate bones and DNA to tell stories that heal and fight the demon “wiindigoo.”


id: transmotion-979
author: Scott, Conrad
title: “Changing Landscapes”
date: 2022-05-10
pages: 29
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 8803
sentence: 447
flesch: 52
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summary:
  Indigenous ecocritical dystopias, in particular, entangle the solutions for the characters with solutions for their lived places and environments.23 The example of King’s Back of the Turtle also engages in an ecocritically dystopian fashion with realism through environmental changes to settings such as the city of Lethbridge and the Alberta tar sands. The discovery of such a repository of experiential ecological understandings promises to extend cultural legacies, and echoes a call in many Indigenous sf narratives for a reconnection with the land.


id: transmotion-967
author: Schweninger, Lee
title: Nádleeh and the River
date: 2021-08-09
pages: 22
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 7194
sentence: 372
flesch: 63
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summary:
  In other words, if the characters seen to interact with Felixia on a daily basis, those who knew/know this person as Felix, had a fuller understanding of or appreciation for Navajo culture and history, they would very likely have a more tolerant attitude toward their former friend. As will be developed below, Felixia and Nizhoni discover that they are cousins, their mothers having been sisters; and Felixia and Sick Boy come together with each other at a party.


id: transmotion-983
author: Mishra, Ananya
title: The Crisis in Metaphors
date: 2022-05-10
pages: 47
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 14453
sentence: 814
flesch: 52
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summary:
  Grain shortages, due to changes in the crop cycles (ibid), also began during this period, leading to resistance by Adivasi communities. Anthropogenic impacts on these geographies (the jal, jangal, jameen of Adivasi communities) had rendered them incapable to cushion the force of periodically occurring calamities.


id: transmotion-990
author: Lockhart, Isabel
title: Urgency, Action, and Grounded Aesthetics in Warren Cariou’s Tar Sands Texts
date: 2021-11-29
pages: 33
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 10363
sentence: 499
flesch: 54
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summary:
  Meanwhile, Ghosh’s initial observations about petroleum’s slipperiness to fiction, and culture broadly, are still relevant to tar sands texts however intentional they are about bringing oil to visibility: how to communicate the sheer scale of extraction, the global reach of the bitumen economy, the tangle of pipeline networks, the bodily effects of toxic exposure, and the largely peripatetic workforce? The industry is not insensible to the rhetorical advantages of referring to the sands as tar sands if you want to convey something of their nastiness, and the advantages of referring to the sands as oil sands if you want to convey something of their conventionality.


id: transmotion-980
author: Bouich, Abdenour
title: Coeval Worlds, Alter/Native Words
date: 2021-11-17
pages: 28
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 8868
sentence: 396
flesch: 48
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summary:
  He explains that, although many toxic stories were written about Indigenous peoples— especially from a colonial Eurocentric perspective—the most damaging of them all is that of “Indigenous deficiency” (2, original emphasis). In the introduction of Decolonizing Methodologies (1999), Linda Tuhiwai Smith explains that (post-)colonial and settler-colonial governments, states, institutions, and societies continue to ignore the “historical formations” of degrading conditions imposed upon Indigenous peoples’ such as poverty, physical and mental health issues, alcoholism, and substance abuse that are direct results of colonialism as well as socio-political and economical marginalisation and oppression (34).


id: transmotion-912
author: Lee, A. Robert
title: Speaking of Ralph
date: 2020-05-28
pages: 71
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 23886
sentence: 955
flesch: 62
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summary:
  We both dug the foundation; Ralph re-wired the whole downstairs so that the electric company would hook us up to power lines. The “tough” parts—his family’s poverty and state of near-starvation, their need to work tirelessly and be ever-vigilant, keeping guns at the ready to protect Ingrid Wendt and A.Robert Lee Interview 180 themselves, in a society out of balance during the Great Depression, and the hardships of the Great Depression itself, as well as his father’s drunken violence— scarred Ralph for life.


id: transmotion-984
author: Seibel, Svetlana
title: Fleshy Stories
date: 2022-05-10
pages: 35
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 11430
sentence: 484
flesch: 53
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summary:
  “Rivers without salmon have lost the life source of the area,” Egan goes on, pointing towards the effects of the devastation Svetlana Seibel “Fleshy Stories” 42 of salmon decline (22). As least 232 genetically unique groups of Pacific salmon and steelhead are known to have disappeared entirely, losses that have occurred across a startlingly large portion of the salmon’s natural range.


