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Tommy Orange on how he wrote a new kind of Native American epic
2018
Overview
For native people, Orange writes, cities and towns themselves represent the absence of a homeland – a lost world of “buried ancestral land, glass and concrete and wire and steel, unreturnable covered memory. Orange opens his novel with a meditation on the symbolism of the Indian head – an image that appears on coins, flags and team uniforms as seemingly benign décor, but also recalls centuries of violence against indigenous people, tracing back to 17th century massacres when the heads of slaughtered native people were displayed on spikes. (After Alexie was accused of harassment by multiple women, both Orange and Mailhot asked their publishers to remove his endorsements from their books.) The accusations against Alexie, who is perhaps the most prominent contemporary Native American writer, were painful for his former students and other young indigenous writers who looked up to him.
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Independent Digital News & Media
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