Native American Lit

The Native American Literature Symposium, organized by an independent group of Indigenous scholars, committed to making a space to amplify #native voices.

[Native American Lit @NALSymposium]

Our final program is live! Click the link below to view the full conference schedule. Cover art by Candaian visual artist, Rosalie Favell.
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[Abolish Prisons 🇵🇸 @lauramdevos]

Sitting at the airport to go home, thinking about how much time I’ll need to unpack all I’ve learned the past few days & read all the books I found out about! So excited about all the great connections this amazing space allowed me to make. Thanks @NALSymposium! #NALS2018

[Native American Lit @NALSymposium]

“I had to convince myself that I was worthy of having a voice.” -Tommy Pico #nals2018

[David Stirrup @DFStirrup]

... Tommy Pico. Thanks again @NALSymposium, another great conference.

[Abolish Prisons 🇵🇸 @lauramdevos]

“That’s the kind of nature I write a poem about” - Tommy Pico has got the whole room laughing with his animated reading of his Nature Poem #NALS2018 @NALSymposium

[David Stirrup @DFStirrup]

The closing paper of the closing session at #NALS2018. Jordan Abel tells us about his amazing book Injun @NALSymposium

[Abolish Prisons 🇵🇸 @lauramdevos]

Carol Warrior asks to disturb the Native made = good, non-Native made = bad simple binary opposition, binaries don’t express the messy complex relationships #NALS2018 @NALSymposium

[Scott Andrews @ProfAndrews]

One of the cool things about the Native American Literature Symposium is meeting and talking with native writers, like poets Trevino Brings Plenty and Jordan Abel. Fun conversations with smart, creative people. #nals2018 @NALSymposium

[David Stirrup @DFStirrup]

Melanie Braith on Tomson Highway’s The Kiss if the Fur Queen @NALSymposium #NALS2018

[David Stirrup @DFStirrup]

Patrizia Zanella speaks about Cherie Dimaline’s The Marriw Thieves @NALSymposium #NALS2018

[Abolish Prisons 🇵🇸 @lauramdevos]

Nancy Peterson connects the @the_sioux_chef’s cook book and food sovereignty ideas with Louise and Heid Erdrich’s literary works #NALS2018 @NALSymposium

[Abolish Prisons 🇵🇸 @lauramdevos]

Stephanie Fitzgerald connects uranium pollution in Spokane traditional foods from the land to NE Oklahoma, SE Kansas and SE Missouri tri-state mining district’s “biggest environmental disaster you’ve never heard of” #NALS2018 @NALSymposium

[Abolish Prisons 🇵🇸 @lauramdevos]

“Food culture is story culture” Thomas Pecore Weso’s Menominee food narratives #NALS2018 @NALSymposium

[Native American Lit @NALSymposium]

“It’s the job of poets to not be satisfied with language.” -@HeidErdrich

[Abolish Prisons 🇵🇸 @lauramdevos]

“History is always in the now” Joshua Whitehead uses horror to “reterritorialize settler colonialism’s every day sovereignty,” “horrific Indianness” as a means of decolonization - bringing the Oka crisis to the present #NALS2018 @NALSymposium

[Native American Lit @NALSymposium]

“People think that because i’m an atheist that i’m also a dick. But it’s actually the opposite.” -@larrydrake at #NALS2018

[Abolish Prisons 🇵🇸 @lauramdevos]

Trevino Brings Plenty on quantum physics over god, colonization by Christianity destroying Lakota cultural & spiritual practice that can’t be properly expressed in English, & sci-fi movie references to illustrate the different versions of god & energies #NALS2018 @NALSymposium