Resisting the Violence through Writing

A Conversation with Tommy Orange The following excerpt comes from an interview conducted with Cheyenne author Tommy Orange during the 2019 National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (ncore) in Portland, Oregon. [...]the first readers of this book were the scariest group to read in...

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Published in:World literature today 2019-10, Vol.93 (4), p.56-60
Main Author: Shotton, Heather J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Conversation
Higher education
Native American studies
Native North Americans
Orange, Tommy
Writing
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Summary:A Conversation with Tommy Orange The following excerpt comes from an interview conducted with Cheyenne author Tommy Orange during the 2019 National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (ncore) in Portland, Oregon. [...]the first readers of this book were the scariest group to read in front of; it was Native youth from Oakland. For me, and the life that I've lived, there's certainly not a bow on the end, but while I was finishing the book, we were watching elders getting hit with rubber bullets on national TV while trying to pray for clean water. [...]it sort of dies out, and this is what happened after the 1970s and civil rights, and then in the 1990s, Dances with Wolves came out and it won all these Academy Awards, and so Native people came back into the American consciousness. [...]we have Standing Rock and this new generation happening, and I'd like to believe that this time around it's not just a "What's going on?" again, followed by "Who cares?" But part of this diversity in publishing that's happening across a lot of marginalized groups and voices that we haven't been listening to, I'm hoping that it's part of something more sustainable and not just this wave based on tragic circumstances.
ISSN:0196-3570
1945-8134