April 2009
still loves love
“It’s true. It’s not a seasonal thing. It is ongoing and will not...”
– Your Palm Read in Late April - Blessed - Tassili
Sherman Alexie interview →
indigen:
The collection was originally titled Thrash. Why did you change it to Face?
Because when people would pronounce it and talk about the book in interviews they’d always call it Trash. And when my poetry editor emailed me once, even he typed Trash by mistake. So I thought, okay, I’m changing it. Although now whenever I get interviewed or talk...
stupid america →
lalilster:
salmonrojo:
By Lalo Delgado, 1969 From Chicano, 25 Pieces of a Chicano Mind
stupid america, see that chicano with a big knife on his steady hand he doesn’t want to knife you he wants to sit on a bench and carve christfigures but you won’t let him. stupid america, hear that chicano shouting curses on the street he is a poet without paper and pencil and since he cannot write he will...
“I have been studying the difference
between solitude and loneliness,
telling...”
– Hermana, Resist » White Towels (via curate)
Red Salmon Arts & Resistencia Bookstore Calendar...
curate:
salmonrojo:
9pm Saturday April 25, 2009
*Conjure: Calling up the Spirit of Struggle, Resistance, & Liberation*Unofficial CD release party for 3JazzCollective’s latest collection of music: she danced
We invite you to a forum for progressive artist/activists:
A series of experiments in jazz music, dance, spoken word, & cinema
This session will feature: spoken word...
“twitter sux ass. it wouldn’t let me be sad and drunk, so I am over here instead.”
– brownfemipower
twitter sux ass.
brownfemipower:
it wouldn’t let me be sad and drunk, so I am over here instead.
what. really? i’m always drunk and horrible over there.
Hoop Dancer
It’s hard to enter circling clockwise and counter clockwise moving no regard for time, metrics irrelevant to this dance where pain is the prime number and soft stepping feet praise water from the skies:
I have seen the face of triumph the winding line stare down all moves to desecration: guts not cut from arms, fingers joined to minds, together Sky and Water one...
How to Write the Great American Indian Novel
All of the Indians must have tragic features: tragic noses, eyes, and arms. Their hands and fingers must be tragic when they reach for tragic food. The hero must be a half-breed, half white and half Indian, preferably from a horse culture. He should often weep alone. That is mandatory. If the hero is an Indian woman, she is beautiful. She must be slender and in love with a white man. But if she...
gifparty:
Native Americans Need Rule of Law, but Whose Law? →
Terry Anderson argues in “Native Americans Need the Rule of Law” (op-ed, March 16) that the keys to ending the persistent poverty of American Indian nations are to end federal control of Indian lands while increasing federal (and state) control over tribal court systems. He would do the latter through federal standard setting and the threat of state jurisdiction if tribes fail to meet...
“People think other things are more important than prayer, but they are mistaken.”
– Thomas Yellowtail, CROW
An Elder once said the most important thing you can do in the course of a day is to pray. If we get up late or oversleep, which is more important? Rush to work without praying or pray first and then go to work? The... 