Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors

Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees, and AncestorsTribal chairman and celebrated storyteller Greg Sarriswhose novels are esteemed alongside those of Louise Erdrich and Stephen Graham Jonesinvites us into intimate and contemplative scenes from his own life in Becoming Story. With this memoir in essays he asks: What does it mean to be truly connected to the place you call hometo walk where innumerable generations of your ancestors have walked? And what does it mean when you dedicate your life to making

the extended family

The result is a collection of poems that are steeped in the perspective of an Inuit of the twenty-first century-a perspective that is fresh

"—Mary LaGarde

constructing a multifaceted book of diverse disciplinary perspectives

and in the dancing flames through the window below

In Bead Talk

with dramatically different consequences for Native and non-Native perspectives

she continually rebirths a decolonized reality

three students approached Pratt with the notion of forming a football team

redface was used to racialize Indigenous peoples and nations

Through the cycle of the seasons

Red Lake holds its land in common and