A mind spread out on the ground
The Mohawk phrase for depression, Wake' nikonhra'kwenhtará:'on, can be roughly translated to 'a mind spread out on the ground.' Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of persona, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced. Elliott's writing details a life spent between Indigenous and white communities, a divide reflected in her own family, and engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, art, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrification, and representation. Throughout, she makes connections between the past and present, the personal and political.
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Elliott, Alicia. Indigenous peoples > Canada > Social conditions. Colonization > Social aspects > Canada. Racism > Canada. Canada > Race relations. |
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Large print books. |
- ISBN: 9781432885397
- Physical Description 329 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
- Edition Large print edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2021.
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General Note: | GMD: large print. |