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A review by clarityandchaos
Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices on Child Custody and Education by Robert Bensen
5.0
Great anthology of stories - autobiographical, fictional, traditional - poems and other texts about growing up Native American. It's a strong reminder of how colonialist behavior by the US & Canada ( esp. the respective governments) against Native American was/is still present in the 20th century. At times the stories are post-colonial in a "writing-back" sense: Using the colonizers language (which in this case English is) to write of distinctly Native American (colonized) experience.
More about my reading of the book at my blog.
More about my reading of the book at my blog.