NATIVE AMERICAN WRITING TODAY
<p>I want to carry on that idea and add to it the notion that too much of ALL our thinking is “boxes” — that is, boundaries around a concept that force things to be either “in” or “out,” requiring a dyadic system of debate and conflict. Now I am more interested in the idea of a point of origin which then expands without limits, but possibly with transformation. New thought can go in any direction.</p>
<p>Literary NA writing — Welch, Erdrich, Alexie, et al began with a “center point” named Momaday. Those writers — now gone or close to old age — had their short renaissance a few decades ago, but today’s sci-fi approach had a big injection of success with the popularity of television series about traditional spooky categories like werewolves, vampires, and teenagers — crossed with the temperate jungle forests near Neah Bay and the tribes like the Makah there. No horses or feathers. The images on Google are new, These are from “wallpaper” for computers. Probably not bought by many boys.</p>
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