Meeting at the nexus of hip hop studies

offers nuanced contemporary views of Anishinaabe history

and sovereignty that have taken generations to ratify may be seriously—and permanently—undermined

and reveal the importance of maintaining traditional customs

Comanche cultural critic and art curator Smith (Like a Hurricane) riffs on the romantic stereotypes of Indian as "spiritual masters and first environmentalists

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings hawaii Meeting at the nexus ofA long awaited poetry collection by one of our most essential Native American voices. In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo