A Mind Spread Out On The Ground

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A Mind Spread Out On The Ground. In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of native people in north america while drawing on intimate details of her own life and. Should already know—their implication with.

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A conversation with alicia elliott. Each essay leverages elliot's personal memories and reflections to make poignant, vulnerable and raw social critiques on the inequality, discrimination and experience faced by indigenous canadians. A fresh and revolutionary cultural critic alternately witty, vulnerable and piercing.

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Alicia elliott is a tuscarora writer living in brantford, ontario. In the 19th century, native peoples in north america were stereotyped as savages. Mercifully, death arrives but the poison has not yet finished, for the process of rigor mortis has set in with unusual speed. The mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated as a mind spread out on the ground.