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Skabewis

Review by Dawn Karima Pettigrew
News From Indian Country

“The consciousness of ourselves as Indigenous cultural beings is very important to our existence as speaking-writing Indigenous people,” writes Simon Ortiz in the foreword for American Indian Literary Nationalism. The noted scholar continues, “In fact, cultural consciousness as Indigenous people is the bottom line. And that, more than anything else, has to do crucially with our cultural sovereignty as Indigenous people.” This interesting book demonstrates the intersection between cultural sovereignty and literary criticism.

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