CNAIS faculty Stephen Graham Jones on Transcending Stereotypes
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High Country News: Youâve said that you âgot really tired of people asking in interviews, âWhatâs supposed to be Indian about this?â â and that in several books youâve disguised elements that come from Native culture.
Stephen Graham Jones:ÌęMy bookÌęGrowing up Dead in TexasÌę(MP Publishing LTD, 2012) only has the word âIndianâ once in it. But to me that book is so Indian. Itâs the life patterns that are Indian, not the skin tone or cultural heritage. Itâs a way of existing in the world, a world you donât always plug into the way you feel that youâre supposed to.Ìę
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