Tag: indigenous peoples
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Indigenous bookstore haunted by a wannabe
This novel starts out intriguing and fun, with amusing riffs on a wide variety of topics, but in the second half kind of peters out, like the author lost interest somewhat and was already thinking about her next project. The premise is fun & interesting: the protagonist, Tookie, works in Erdrich’s small, quirky Minneapolis bookstore…
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Genocidal colonialism in the U.S.
Book review: An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. (Four out of five stars) This is a very interesting, well-researched and (not surprisingly) somewhat polemical book. Be prepared for some eye-opening, disturbing and likely disillusioning information, including: <1> The young USA could not have survived financially (or at least would have…
Heard and Seen Around Town 