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Sky Woman’s Great Granddaughters: A Narrative Inquiry Into Kanienkehaka Women’s Identity © Kahente Horn-Miller, 2009. If you prefer to read this as a PDF, click here Kahente Horn-Miller is of Akskare:wake (Bear Clan) descent from the Kanien:keha’ka (Mohawk) Indigenous community of Kahnawake, a First Nations reserve located near the city of Montreal, on the banks …
By René Alvarado Martínez y Juan G. Sánchez Martínez / Translated from Spanish by Lorrie Jayne René Alvarado Martínez hails from San Andrés Hidalgo, Huautla de Jiménez, in the northeast region of Oaxaca, México. As he tells it, from the time he was a child, René has created from earthen clay and reproduced images that …
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“Yomoram jyayappapä’is jäyätzame” Selection © Paul Worley and Carolina Bloem If you prefer to read this selection as PDF, please CLICK HERE MARY LEAUNA CHRISTENSEN Inborn [Published in Denver Quarterly] The language in me/ is old/ though I feel new to it/ my palate warping/ a metal over flame/ I practice the sounds of animals/ …
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Original poetry in Spanish from Alrededor de la casa © Maya Cú Introduction, selection and translation by Gloria E. Chacón and Juan G. Sánchez Martínez If you prefer to read the PDF, click HERE Kaqchikel researcher Aura Estela Cumes explains that paternalistic culturalism in Guatemala represents the Mayan woman as a tourist object, a museum …
By Sara Ríos Pérez Translated by María Grabiela Gelpi “We did not know that we were Indigenous” is one of the first sentences that is pronounced in the documentary Putisnan, disenchanting the memory (2022), directed by Colombian Oliver Velásquez Dávila—an anthropologist who leads his life between activism and investigating the memory of Indigenous Communities of …
Kimberly L. Becker is author of the poetry collections Words Facing East; The Dividings (WordTech), and Flight (forthcoming, MadHat Press). Her poems appear widely in journals and anthologies, including IDK Magazine, Panoply, and Tending the Fire: Native Voices and Portraits. She has held grants from MD, NC, and NJ and residencies at Hambidge, Weymouth, and …
Introduction, selection and translation from Spanish by Gloria E. Chacón and Juan G. Sánchez Martínez Humberto Ak’abal (1952-2019) was a self-taught bilingual poet (Maya K’iche ’/ Spanish), and a plural voice translated into Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, English, French, Italian, Scottish with worldwide recognition. From his first books in the nineties (El guardián de la …
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El ombligo maya, óol, and original poems © Pedro Uc Selection and translation from Spanish © Melissa Birkhofer and Paul Worley If you prefer to read this post as a PDF, please CLICK HERE It is with great enthusiasm that we present this selection of story-essays, and poems by Pedro Uc. As a bilingual writer …
By Alejandro Padilla a.k.a Supay Kayampa (Illapa Iriwari) Ecuador, a country in South America crossed by volcanoes, mountains, rivers, lakes and the Ekuator, the equator, is small in area, but immensely diverse. Its flora, fauna, colors, and cultural landscape, as well as its people, history and memory make this small land a space for fusions …
Compilation, comments, and images by Yana Lucila Lema Poetry translated from Spanish by Carolina Bloem Comments translated by Anya Skye Tucker The further we move away from life the more we grasp for her the more gods are dying the more we ache to write about them When we talk about poetry in our language, …
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