“The government keeps trying to erase the Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Ebarb, Louisiana: first by drowning their ancestral grounds in a man-made reservoir, then by denying their petitions for federal recognition. But they did not count on the dazzling lyric gifts of Native poet Thomas Parrie, who rescues tribal myths and memories from oblivion in this stunning debut collection. Spread the word about Toledo Rez and its author, the unforgettable voice of an ‘underwater reservation’." — Julie Kane, author of author of Rhythm & Booze and Paper Bullets; Professor Emeritus, English, Northwestern State University; 2011-2013 Louisiana Poet Laureate 
"Thomas Parrie’s Toledo Rez & Other Myths comes at a time when not only his tribal people, the Choctaw-Apache of Ebarb, deserve such brilliant and vibrant expression, but all of Indian Louisiana as well. These poems are vital and dynamic, and they will help Louisiana live forever.” — Geary Hobson, author of The Last of the Ofos and Plain of Jars; Professor Emeritus, English, University of Oklahoma; Director Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas 
“Thomas Parrie’s Toledo Rez & Other Myths evokes memory, humor, recovery, music, and resilience of Indigenous Louisiana. Parrie calls up reveries where: ‘When the Sabine River was dammed to become Toledo Bend/ our half-blind grandmothers prayed to sunbeams.’ Reminding readers the genealogy of baseball, Choctaws’ ishtaboli, is the progenitor of the game where: ‘We avenge our fathers and uncles… And when we win, brothers…we become the sun and the moon.’ This collection marks Parrie as an integral voice in the Native South and Indigenous writing of the Americas.” —Rain Prud’homme-Cranford, author of Smoked Mullet Cornbread Crawdad Memory; Assistant Professor of English and International Indigenous Studies, University of Calgary

Toledo Rez & Other Myths

Literature & Fiction

Parrie, Thomas

United States

That Painted Horse Press

Kimberly Wieser takes us on an expansive journey across mixedblood Indian Americana in this collection of poetry. Home is a place where our surroundings are familiar, an embodiment of one's very own being. It represents a sacred place for healing. "Na he dum--Cheyenne for 'I'm telling the truth'--is the phrase that lingers after reading Kimberly Wieser's no-holds-barred roaring whirlwind of a collection. This is the poetry of a woman, unabashed and unafraid, speaking from her whole mind and whole heart, emphatically declaring, here is the truth of my history, my people, my family, my body, my sex, my languages, my being, my very spirit. Written with unflinching eyes, this is work without hesitation or doubt, that refuses suffering and victimization, that celebrates survival and memory." --ire'ne lara silva, author of Flesh to Bone and Blood Sugar Cantos

Texas... To Get Horses

Wieser, Kimberly G.

Poetry

The 8th book and 7th poetry collection by San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck tracks tributaries from the Golden Gate Bridge, California to the Neosho River, Oklahoma. Shuck centers this collection around Indigenous bodies, nature, family, land, and memory. It is at once a call towards perseverance and survival while resisting erasure, genocide, and ongoing environmental kinships, asking readers to whom and what we belong and therefore to whom or what we are accountable to. Exile Heart speaks to the issues of water protection, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, wildfires, and environmental contamination reflecting a perfectly timed collection.

Exile Heart

Shuck, Kim

"Yulu Ewis powerfully recreates tribal myth from the ashes of colonial history; myth that simultaneously remakes the poet and colonial history itself." Dr. Greg Sarris, Graton Rancheria Endowed Chair in Creative Writing, Sonoma State University; author of Grand Avenue and Watermelon Nights\n"Poems that should be read and reread---and very likely will be---of ever-vital Native presences of the Northern California mountain." Dr. Geary Hobson, Professor Emeritus, University of Oklahoma; executive Director, Native Writers Circle of the Americas\n"In 'Ope (More), Yulu Ewis opens the world of oral tradition-the same, timeless, pre-Columbian world of our Indigenous ancestors that is still present, but unseen by most-to all of her readers. Grounded in the language and world views of her Miwok and Pomo ancestors, Ewis definitely gives us 'more' as it grapples with cultural perseverance, along with the 'sovereignty' and 'civil rights' the US has 'given' to her people in the aftermath of its genocidal and assimilative tactics that attempted to destroy them." Dr. Kimberly G. Wieser, Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma, author of Texas...to Get Horses and Back to the Blanket

Ope'

Ewis, Yulu

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Genre Fiction

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