Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds"A fascinating advanced seminar about how to think, read, think about reading, and think about Indigenous lives." Booklist In this powerful reframing of the stories that make us, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec leads us into the borderlands of history, science, memoir, and fiction to ask: What worlds do books written by marginalized people describe and invite us to inhabit? When a friend asked what books could help them understand Indigenous lives,

white settlers repeatedly used the term "massacre" to describe Indian raids

uniformed drill routines

Who do you go to for advice and support

they welcome you into their rich and wondrous imaginative world

this is usually where they end it

Horse fought tirelessly to help his people survive

He applies key insights from what has been called the "ontological turn

But can a girl really lead the all-male troupe

In Dirty Copper

their ongoing struggles against a centuries-old legacy of colonial disempowerment

and corporal punishment

relocation