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Thunder song : essays / Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe.

Summary:

"Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, LaPointe explores themes ranging from Indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and conscientious honesty. Unapologetically punk, the essays in Thunder Song segue between the miraculous and the mundane, the spiritual and the physical, as they examine the role of art-in particular music-and community in helping a new generation of Indigenous people claim the strength of their heritage while defining their own path in the contemporary world"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781640096356
Physical Description: 238 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: First Counterpoint edition
Publisher: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2024.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe is a Coast Salish author from the Nooksack and Upper Skagit Indian tribes." - Back fold.

Formatted Contents Note:

Thunder song -- (There was a time...) -- Tulips -- Basket woman -- Bəsxʷuqid (Swan Creek) -- Yəhaw' -- (My words are like the stars...) -- Reservation Riot Grrrl -- The jacket -- The whale -- First salmon ceremony -- Cactus flowers -- (These shores...) -- Licorice fern -- River silt -- Black cohosh -- ʔuʔušəbicid čəd: an Indigenous queer love story -- (Today is fair...) -- Kinships -- Louise's spirit song