We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World

We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the WorldA brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota. In this significant collection, Indigenous writers and writers of color bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in the history of the United States. Essays and poems vividly reflect and comment on the traumas we endured in 2020, beginning with the arrival of the COVID 19 pandemic

this search for spirituality is informed by traditional knowledge

Focusing on issues of identity and authenticity

and discovery

and Spiral to the Stars taps into and activates this dynamism to discuss Indigenous community planning from a Mvskoke perspective

By embracing the subtle

and the genocidal commands of the Old Testament God

the class valedictorian

' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being

there Theresa gets to know a handsome Indian boy

Amik tells Moshoom about his wonderful school

Indian play has thus been fraught with ambivalence—for white Americans who idealized and villainized the Indian

When her family's papers are finally approved