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something I don’t think occurs to settlers is that Indigenous people already are living in a post-apocalyptic world
if this is a new concept for you, you don’t read enough Indigenous writing. this is just me thinking about the works of @WordsandGuitar @notvanishing @cherie_dimaline @tripgore @clairegcoleman @nick_w_estes @waub @apihtawikosisan et al
OK so the original tweet has, how do you say, popped off??
So I thought I'd share some reading & links on this specific idea of living in a post-apocalypse world as Indigenous peoples.
These sources are a mix of books (fiction & non-fic), academic articles, and news sources
So I thought I'd share some reading & links on this specific idea of living in a post-apocalypse world as Indigenous peoples.
These sources are a mix of books (fiction & non-fic), academic articles, and news sources
'This Place: 150 years retold' by multiple brilliant Indigenous authors (2019) https://www.portageandmainpress.com/product/this-place/
Alicia Elliot's ( @WordsandGuitar) foreward in this is a short and sweet summation on this theme
Alicia Elliot's ( @WordsandGuitar) foreward in this is a short and sweet summation on this theme
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice ( @waub) https://ecwpress.com/products/moon-of-the-crusted-snow
LISTEN: ‘Why writing a post-apocalyptic novel felt more fact than fiction for Waubgeshig Rice’ via @CBC https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/full-episode-july-29-2019-1.4923883/why-writing-a-post-apocalyptic-novel-felt-more-fact-than-fiction-for-waubgeshig-rice-1.4923887
LISTEN: ‘Why writing a post-apocalyptic novel felt more fact than fiction for Waubgeshig Rice’ via @CBC https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/full-episode-july-29-2019-1.4923883/why-writing-a-post-apocalyptic-novel-felt-more-fact-than-fiction-for-waubgeshig-rice-1.4923887
The Road by Cormac Mccarthy (2006) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/110490/the-road-by-cormac-mccarthy/ (mentioned by Waubgeshig in previous CBC article)
The Marrow Thieves by @cherie_dimaline https://www.dcbyoungreaders.com/the-marrow-thieves
Cherie Dimaline: Hopes and dreams in the apocalypse by Deborah Dundas (2017) https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2017/11/06/cherie-dimaline-hopes-and-dreams-in-the-apocalypse.html
Cherie Dimaline: Hopes and dreams in the apocalypse by Deborah Dundas (2017) https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2017/11/06/cherie-dimaline-hopes-and-dreams-in-the-apocalypse.html
Survival by Dimaline (2020) https://thewalrus.ca/survival-cherie-dimaline/
"In writing my book, The Marrow Thieves [...] I was telling story from inside an apocalypse. And I could do this with absolute certainty in its viability because as Indigenous people, we have already survived the apocalypse.”
"In writing my book, The Marrow Thieves [...] I was telling story from inside an apocalypse. And I could do this with absolute certainty in its viability because as Indigenous people, we have already survived the apocalypse.”
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (2018) https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Trail-of-Lightning/Rebecca-Roanhorse/The-Sixth-World/9781534413498
Postcards from the Apocalypse by Rebecca Roanhorse (2018) https://uncannymagazine.com/article/postcards-from-the-apocalypse/
“What if I told you that there had been a zombie apocalypse? What if I told you that you were the zombies?”
“What if I told you that there had been a zombie apocalypse? What if I told you that you were the zombies?”
Blood Quantam (2020) by Jeff Barnaby ( @tripgore) Movie Trailer:
"We actually lived through the apocalypse: the colonial settler state is another kind of apocalypse for us. And we're here." ( http://cbc.ca/news/entertainment/tiff2019-bloodquantum-1.5273257)
"We actually lived through the apocalypse: the colonial settler state is another kind of apocalypse for us. And we're here." ( http://cbc.ca/news/entertainment/tiff2019-bloodquantum-1.5273257)
Elder in Making: Apocalypse by filmmaker Cowboy Smithx
Episode Transcripts: https://learning.arpdc.ab.ca/pluginfile.php/34851/mod_resource/content/1/Elder%20in%20the%20Making%20Transcript%20and%20Directors%20Notes.pdf
Episode Transcripts: https://learning.arpdc.ab.ca/pluginfile.php/34851/mod_resource/content/1/Elder%20in%20the%20Making%20Transcript%20and%20Directors%20Notes.pdf
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (1977) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/534116/ceremony-by-leslie-marmon-silko/
The "Whirling Darkness" of Now: Unconventional Apocalypse in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony by Kurt Fawver (2014) https://journals.jcu.edu.au/linq/article/view/3203/3156
Future Home Of the Living Gods by Louise Erdrich (2017) https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/future-home-of-the-living/9780062694058-item.html?ref=isbn-search
‘An Indigenous Woman in the Apocalyptic City: Exploring the Multifaceted Urban Panorama in Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God’ by Svitlana Kot (2020) http://rupkatha.com/V12/n1/v12n101.pdf
‘An Indigenous Woman in the Apocalyptic City: Exploring the Multifaceted Urban Panorama in Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God’ by Svitlana Kot (2020) http://rupkatha.com/V12/n1/v12n101.pdf
Generative Hope in the Postapocalyptic Present by William Lempert (2018) https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/download/ca33.2.04/65?inline=1
“The Native Apocalypse, if contemplated seriously, has already taken place. — Grace Dillon”
“The Native Apocalypse, if contemplated seriously, has already taken place. — Grace Dillon”
Mashkiig. An Anishinaabe (post)Apocalypse (2020) by Andrea Carlson and Rozalinda Borcila https://www.ny-web.be/artikels/mashkiig-an-anishinaabe-postapocalypse/
The Outside by Jay Odick http://kagagi.squarespace.com/the-outsider/
“At one point Jay posed the question: ‘Are we talking about the world as a whole ending or YOUR world ending? Because I know of some people are already living in a post-apocalyptic world.’” ( https://sooguy.com/canconsf2017/ )
“At one point Jay posed the question: ‘Are we talking about the world as a whole ending or YOUR world ending? Because I know of some people are already living in a post-apocalyptic world.’” ( https://sooguy.com/canconsf2017/ )
Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles by Gerald Vizenor (1990) https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/bearheart
Our Ancestors’ Dystopia Now: Indigenous Conservation and the Anthropocene by @kylepowyswhyte (2016) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2770047
Indigenous science (fiction) for the Anthropocene: Ancestral dystopias and fantasies of climate change crises by Kyle Whyte (2018) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2514848618777621
Indigenous science (fiction) for the Anthropocene: Ancestral dystopias and fantasies of climate change crises by Kyle Whyte (2018) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2514848618777621
Apocalypses are more than the stuff of fiction — First Nations Australians survived one by @clairegcoleman (2017) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-08/first-nations-australians-survived-an-apocalypse-says-author/9224026
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean by Gerald Horne (2018) https://nyupress.org/9781583676639/the-apocalypse-of-settler-colonialism/
REVIEW OF ‘The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean, by Gerald Horne’ by Sarah Barber (2019) https://brill.com/view/journals/nwig/93/3-4/article-p289_6.xml?language=en
Indigenous Resistance Is Post-Apocalyptic, with Nick Estes ( @nick_w_estes) by Nick Serpe (2019) https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/booked-indigenous-resistance-is-post-apocalyptic-with-nick-estes
How to Survive an Apocalypse and Keep Dreaming by Julian Brave NoiseCat (2020) https://www.thenation.com/article/society/native-american-postapocalypse/
How to Survive an Apocalypse and Keep Dreaming by Julian Brave NoiseCat (2020) https://www.thenation.com/article/society/native-american-postapocalypse/
If Colonialism Was The Apocalypse, What Comes Next?
by Mark Bould (2015) https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/if-colonialism-was-the-apocalypse-what-comes-next-dilman-dila
by Mark Bould (2015) https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/if-colonialism-was-the-apocalypse-what-comes-next-dilman-dila
I'm part of the world's oldest living culture, but could I kill a zombie with a boomerang? by Tyson Yunkaporta (2017) https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/27/im-part-of-the-worlds-oldest-living-culture-but-could-i-kill-a-zombie-with-a-boomerang
What The War of the Worlds Had to Do with Tasmania by Matthew Wills (2018) https://daily.jstor.org/what-the-war-of-the-world-had-to-do-with-tasmania/
Waving at Trains: a conversation with Nalo Hopkins https://bostonreview.net/podcast/nalo-hopkinson-waving-trains?fbclid=IwAR1rGcJyaET9_H73mGdW0UbZEF_bjeH4cIMV8omv1EQOOL-Qf58R-1Y447Y
Zone One by Colson Whitehead https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/189758/zone-one-by-colson-whitehead/
Waving at Trains: a conversation with Nalo Hopkins https://bostonreview.net/podcast/nalo-hopkinson-waving-trains?fbclid=IwAR1rGcJyaET9_H73mGdW0UbZEF_bjeH4cIMV8omv1EQOOL-Qf58R-1Y447Y
Zone One by Colson Whitehead https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/189758/zone-one-by-colson-whitehead/
Some of these veer out of the apocalypse as it relates to Indigenous experience and outwardly moves into other peoples who have suffered from colonization globally! Enjoy! And please keep sending and adding more! In this house we love #KnowledgeExchange
ok ok ok ok last one A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None by Kathryn Yusoff (2018) https://manifold.umn.edu/read/untitled-5f0c83c1-5748-4091-8d8e-72bebca5b94b/section/0735001e-5595-4f68-9e9b-0f716c3c81b3#cvi
