Tag Archives: Native Americans

Haaland and Silko’s Laguna Pueblo Vision

By Robin Bates | Published: March 25, 2021

The new Secretary of the Interior comes from the same tribe as novelist Leslie Marmon Silko and appears to hold the same view of the earth.

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A Map to the Next World

By Robin Bates | Published: July 20, 2019

Spiritual Sunday The latest news on climate change continues to be horrific as we battle through the hottest summer on record. The heat wave is hitting countries all over the world, with France at one point posting temperatures of 114 degrees. In other words, we are witnessing human impact on the earth as never before. […]

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Holding On to Radical Hope

By Robin Bates | Published: January 1, 2014

The Crow nation used a vision to hold on to its identity in the face of white threats. Literature can function in similar ways.

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Poetic Guides through Cultural Devastation

By Robin Bates | Published: November 20, 2013

Indian poets are necessary to keep cultural identity alive and to forge new paths in a white world.

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