The creative use of text and language throughout this collection suggests that creative use of language can become a bold way through the traps set up to confine speakers to sanctioned ways of expressing themselves

Positioning our responsibilities as humans to our more-than-human relatives

one that is distorted and trivialized by an ill-suited Eurocentric paradigm of scientific investigation and classification

Deerchild illustrates the disruptive and devastating impacts of the residential school system on generations of families while also celebrating the life and culture of her mother and other survivors

and the insincerities of the academy when it comes to acknowledging Indigenous peoples

Indigenous Inhumanities: California Indian Studies After the Apocalypse writing The creative use of textMark Minch de Leon explores the anticolonial dimensions of California Indian intellectual and cultural resurgence in the aftermath of apocalypse in this compelling reexamination of Indigenous art, literature, and theory. Centering on a reinterpretation of the Ghost Dance, a ceremony first practiced in the nineteenth century, as a collective demonstration of prophecy and resilience, Indigenous Inhumanities envisions an expanded poetics of resistance