Dreaming in Indian : contemporary Native American voices
Summary
In a graphics-intensive, magazine-style format, 50 Native/Indian contributors from Canada and the United States present visual art (photography, drawings, paintings), poems, interviews and remembrances to show what it means to be Native/Indian today. Topics range from stereotypes and discrimination... Full description
- Roots
- Battles
- Medicines
- Dreamcatchers.
- Foreword / by Lee Maracle
- Part I: Roots : I remember / Nicola Campbell ; 4 reservation food groups / Keesic Douglas ; The place I call home / David Kilabuk ; Home / Zach Medicine Shield, Lia Hart, Julia Shaw, Abigail Whiteye ; To those who bullied me / Tanya Tagaq Gillis ; NDN lady / Martin Sensmeier ; Lakota thunder / Dana Hillestad ; Silenced no more / Isabelle Knockwood ; Leaving home / Priscella Rose ; Indians in the city / Henry Heavy Shield ; Concrete Indians / Nadya Kwandibens
- Part 2: Battles : Growing up with Pocahontas / Kelli Clifton, Alida Kinnie Starr, Charlotte "Skaruianewah" Logan ; What is gender? / Aja Sy ; My reality / Karina Rain Dominguez ; Culture clashes / Tom Greyeyes ; The only place she knows / Tonya-Leah Watts ; Reappropriation / Anthony "Thosh" Collins and Ashley Callingbull ; Hey, Mr. GQ! Building my own runway on the reserve / Christian Allaire ; Indian giving / David Groulx ; Shapeshifter gets a job offer / Courtney Powless ; Super Indian / Arigon Starr ; Stand up and say something / Ryan McMahon ; Poverty / Faith Turner ; Shedding my own skin / Joseph Boyden.
- Part 3: Medicines : Watersong / Christi Belcourt ; Why I hunt: hitting the reset button / JP Gladu ; The power of the land / Duke Redbird ; Music is the medicine / Derek Miller ; Opening my eyes ... The sun dance changed my life / Chayla Delorme Maracle ; Culture matters / Derek Nepinak ; What gives you strength? / Youth from Horse Lake First Nation ; Sokolum on the small screen / Heather Hills ; Art outside the box / Louie Gong ; The power of sport / Waneek Horn-Miller ; Modern warrior / Bunky Echo-Hawk
- Part 4: Dreamcatchers : Life lessons / Jade Willoughby ; Adventure in art / Ruthie, Sierra, Chamisa and Santana Edd ; Reunited / Sharai Mustatia ; The road to the red carpet / Michelle Thrush ; Tips from the musical trenches / Conlin Delbaere-Sawchuk ; Idle no more / Kelli Clifton, Raquel Simard, Kris Statnyk ; Salish geek / Jeffrey Veregge ; First nation flavor / Aaron Joseph Bear Robe ; Hoop breaking / James Jones ; Grad: just the beginning / Tenille Campbell ; Weaving dreams / Patricia Stein.