Tag: Leslie Marmon Silko

Conscientization 101 Decolonize This Pt 2
Musical Commentaries

Decolonize This? Properly Defining Settlers
Part 2 of 2

— March 4, 2015 comments off
In dealing with colonialism, we must consider the scope of what can be colonized. The conventional wisdom is that colonialism only relates to land and by extension the original occupants of the... Read more »
Musical Commentaries

Decolonize This? Properly Defining Settlers
Part 1 of 2

— February 18, 2015 comments off
I want to talk about European settler colonies because, again, we’re dealing with land. A settler colony is an area of land where the European leaves Europe, comes to that area and... Read more »
Library

Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko

— September 4, 2013 comments off
When the ex-mistress of a sinister cocaine wholesaler takes a job as secretary to a Native American clairvoyant who works the TV talk show circuit, she begins transcribing an ancient manuscript that... Read more »