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Birchbark Books
(612) 374-4023 phone (612) 374-4090 fax
2115 W. 21st Street Minneapolis, MN 55405
www.birchbarkbooks.com
May 8, 2008 Listen to the Show
Pagans in the Promised Land
Pagans in the Promised Land provides a unique, well-researched challenge to U.S. federal Indian law and policy. It attacks the presumption that American Indian nations are legitimately subject to the plenary power of the United States. Author Steve Newcomb (Shawnee-Lenni Lenape) puts forth a startling theory that U.S. federal Indian law and policy are premised on Old Testament narratives of the chosen people and the promised land, as exemplified in the 1823 Supreme Court ruling Johnson v. McIntosh, that the first "Christian people" to "discover" lands inhabited by "natives, who were heathens," have an ultimate title to and dominion over these lands and peoples. This imporant addition to legal scholarship asserts there is no separation of church and state in the United States, so long as U.S. federal Indian law and policy are premised on the ancient religious distinctions between "Christians" and "heathens."
December 14, 2006 Listen to the Show
How to Hate/Love an Indian: Ojibwe Author David Treuer on Native American Fiction
Native American Fiction: A User’s Manual, is the title of a book of essays that has recently stirred up the literary community. Ojibwe author David Treuer takes on beloved Native American writers like Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie and Leslie Marmon Silko. He raises questions about their texts that other literary critics have failed to do. But Treuer turns his critic’s mind most sharply on the critics. His book of essays looks at how Native American fiction is read and interpreted and the set of cultural stereotypes that are behind that. He also has a new a novel, called The Translation of Dr. Appelles: A Love Story, which has the critics raving.
David Treuer, from the Leech Lake reservation in northern Minnesota and currently an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Minnesota.
For more information: www.davidtreuer.com, MPR:Translating David Treuer, MPR: Talking Volumes Interview
September 28, 2006 Listen to the Show
Author of “Native New Yorkers” on Algonquin History in Manhattan
Evan Pritchard, author of “Native New Yorkers” and “No Word For Time: The Way of the Algonquin People.”
June 1, 2006 Listen to the ShowWinona LaDuke on Food Sovereignty: "The New Arena of Colonialism...is the Biological Make-up of the World"
Author and activist Winona Laduke, a Mississippi Band Anishinaabe, recently spoke at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City with Northern Cheyenne lawyer Gail Small. LaDuke (re)affirmed her commitment to preserve Native lands against the ravages of environmental abuse. She also spoke about recovering humanity, in the theme of her most recent book “Recovering the Sacred.” We play her speech from that night, in which she talks about food sovereignty and more. Winona LaDuke, activist and author. Her newest book is "Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming." She is the Program Director of Honor the Earth and the Founding Director of White Earth Land Recovery Project.
December 8, 2005
Here are today's guests:
- Marijo Moore, Author and former commentator on First Voices Indigenous Radio, speaks about her new book called "Confessions of a Madwoman": go to her web site www.marijomoore.com.
- Leslye Abbey, social worker and independent filmmaker, she is screening a testimonial film called "Houma Nation vs. Hurricanes" this Sunday, December 11th at 11am, at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Queens. Learn more about how Katrina and Rita impacted the Houma nation. Phone 516-679-8216 for more information.
- Charles Verdin, Chair of the Pointe-au-Chien tribe in the lower bayou of southern Louisiana. He speaks about the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on his community, and the historical context of the tribe. Interview by John Hamilton, producer at Democracy Now!.
- Stephen Martin, working with LakotaKidz. He speaks about how the rising cost of fuel will impact Native reservations in South Dakota this winter. Prices will be extremely high there, where the winters are deadly cold, reaching well below 0 degrees. His organization works to deliver services, but faces major logistical obstacles.
November 3, 2005
Renee Gurneau, President of the Red Lake College
Jose Barreiro, Senior Editor of Indian Country Today
Kent Nerburn, Author, sculptor, and educator, speaking on his new book: Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce.
April 21, 2005
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
By Dr. Andrea Smith, Foreword by Winona Laduke
Smith highlights the connections between various forms of violence, perpetrated by the state and by society, and documents their impact on Native women. Smith's examination begins with the impact of the abuse endured at boarding schools from the 1880s to the 1980s. She connects these roots of violence to other forms of violence manifested in white appropriation of Native culture, environmental racism, and population control. Importantly, she includes radical and innovative strategies for eliminating gendered violence. Dr. Andrea Smith (Cherokee) is an assistant professor of Native American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, the largest grassroots, multiracial feminist organization in the U.S. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz in History of Consciousness.
