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Essays
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Sasha LaPointe
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Length
5 hours 30 minutes
Language
English
Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, Sasha taq?ลก?blu LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and conscientious honesty. Unapologetically punk, the essays in Thunder Song segue from the miraculous to the mundane, from the spiritual to the physical, as they examine the role of artโin particular musicโand community in helping a new generation of indigenous people claim the strength of their heritage while defining their own path in the contemporary world...
Sasha taqสทลกษblu LaPointe is a Coast Salish author from the Nooksack and Upper Skagit Indian tribes. She is the author of Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk, winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Awards and an NPR Best Book of the year, and the poetry collection Rose Quartz. She received a double MFA in creative nonfiction and poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in Tacoma, Washington.
Sasha taqสทลกษblu LaPointe is a Coast Salish author from the Nooksack and Upper Skagit Indian tribes. She is the author of Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk, winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Awards and an NPR Best Book of the year, and the poetry collection Rose Quartz. She received a double MFA in creative nonfiction and poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in Tacoma, Washington.
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