We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition event Two Feathers

Two Feathers

Alameda Rocha

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Jinx reexamines assumptions about her tribe’s racial history

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We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition event Two FeathersAfter centuries of colonization, this important new work recovers the literary record of Oceti Sakowin (historically known to some as the Sioux Nation) women, who served as their tribes' traditional culture keepers and culture bearers. In so doing, it furthers discussions about settler colonialism, literature, nationalism, and gender. Women and land form the core themes of the book, which brings tribal and settler colonial narratives into comparative