Who are your favourite contemporary Indigenous / Native American / First Nations writers (including poets) based in Canada and the US?
I'm not looking for search engine results. I'm asking who /you/ read and enjoy. I'm especially interested in replies from Indigenous people.
Joy Harjo, Louise Erdritch and Julian Brave Noisecat are high on my list. Who's on yours?
[Please do not recommend Sherman Alexie. If you don't know why, look him up.]
Craig Strete (sp?)
Moniquill Blackgoose
I agree with @beandreams on the kids books. Im currently blanking on more good ones but they exist.
My Ponca friend Cliff Taylor has a book or two, one is called "Memory of Souls".
Oddly my contributions that come to mind are scholarly
- The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere By Paulette F. C. Steeves
- George Sword's Warrior Narratives by Delphine Red Shirt
the latter has other books I've not read.
@shoshin @ShaulaEvans @ahimsa_pdx @beandreams
Bringing up kids books made me remember 2 YA authors I enjoyed reading very much last year:
Darcie Little Badger and Angeline Boulley
@ShaulaEvans i haven't seen anyone mention Eden Robinson yet, so i will
@ShaulaEvans Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Jessica Johns,
Dr. Jessica Hernandez
I believe adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown are Indigenous as part of their mixed-race Black heritage but that’s just memory from their podcast and might not be right
Shaula Evans
Geoff Berner
Extra Special Bitter
Common Sparrow
Process "Tedious" Parsnip
Heather
Dr Alice Violett
Real Syntactic
datum (n=1)
Lisa Lorenzin KR4LFE (she/her)
David Harrison 🇨🇦
relogi
the buff who fell to earth
Steve Dragswolf 🪶
edhaswell
Tyler Smith
Sarah dreams of beans
shoshin
AO Smith
ig 🏳️🌈
Ro🌱
NilaJones
Mr. Jack