Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers Salish (Séliš) Clyde Bellecourt remembers

Clyde Bellecourt remembers

from Alaska to North Carolina

The received idea of Native American history—as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee—has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee

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Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers Salish (Séliš) Clyde Bellecourt remembersJust as a basket's purpose determines its materials, weave, and shape, so too is the purpose of the essay related to its material, weave, and shape. Editors Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton ground this anthology of essays by Native writers in the formal art of basket weaving. Using weaving techniques such as coiling and plaiting as organizing themes, the editors have curated an exciting collection of imaginative, world making lyric essays by