Pretty and Dumb? Tell It to the Avocado By Carolyn Wells Highlight New arrivals didn’t hand Natives the keys to the modern world — but took the tools that built its foundations.
‘Women Created Our Worlds:’ Native Art Reclaims Its Power By Soraya Roberts Feature There’s a direct line from missing and murdered indigenous women to the repression of Native women’s contributions to art and culture, but those long-silenced voices are now making themselves heard.
It’s Not a Literary Renaissance When You’ve Been Telling Stories Since the Dawn of Time By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A new Indigenous MFA program is becoming an incubator for Native American writing, free of white Eurocentric standards.
The Thing about Women from the River Is That Our Currents Are Endless By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Given a journal while hospitalized, Terese Marie Mailhot writes her way through generations of trauma.
The Telescope That Sees into the Heart of Hawaii By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Trevor Quirk reports on how native Hawaiians protested the construction of a telescope on spiritual grounds — the presence of which cuts to the very question of who gets to decide what happens on Hawaiian soil — and who the soil belongs to.
