There There: A Novel
<p>Tommy Orange, <em>There There: A Novel</em> (New York: Knopf, 2018), 294pp.</p>
<p>What does it mean to be a Native American today, after four hundred years of depopulation, mass murder, forced assimilation, numerous betrayals, altered histories, and violent stereotypes? More particularly, what does it mean to be an Urban Indian in a place like Oakland, where author Tommy Orange was born and raised, and which is the setting for his novel? And what does it mean if, like Orange, one of your parents is white, but you are nonetheless an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma? What is “Indianness” (p. 232)?</p>
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