We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition history including oral histories

including oral histories

PEN America

Rauna Kuokkanen

environmental studies

The paintings and stories he accumulated and developed between July 2019 and July 2020 are drawn from family lore and shared experiences centered in Ojibwe tradition and the natural beauty of northern Minnesota

We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition history including oral historiesAfter centuries of colonization, this important new work recovers the literary record of Oceti Sakowin (historically known to some as the Sioux Nation) women, who served as their tribes' traditional culture keepers and culture bearers. In so doing, it furthers discussions about settler colonialism, literature, nationalism, and gender. Women and land form the core themes of the book, which brings tribal and settler colonial narratives into comparative