Stick Houses: Stories - Couverture souple

Fletcher, Matthew L.M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1611865239 ISBN 13 : 9781611865233

Editeur : Michigan State University Press, 2025

Synopsis

As researchers tried to prompt his mother to say that her ancestors lived in wigwams or teepees, Matthew L. M. Fletcher’s mother insisted her ancestors lived in stick houses. From the opening lines of Fletcher’s story collection, he sets the scene to disrupt narrative stereotypes and expectations about how Indigenous people are perceived. He provides insight into the complex world in which Anishinaabe people live, stripped of the ownership of much of their homeland. In Stick Houses, Fletcher explores what this loss of place has meant to the Anishinaabe people of Michigan. It explores how they must leave and come back. There is dispossession and separation, but there is also reunion and restoration. These stories explore themes of home and belonging, and how Native people are not just one thing; they are both Native and non-Native blood. Some are deeply connected to their Anishinaabe heritage, while others have suffered a complete loss of their culture. Many Native people are conflicted about their background and suffer intergenerational trauma. These stories originate in dynamic environments and situations such as airports, college, Indian lawyering, and high school baseball games.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Matthew L.M. Fletcher is an Associate Professor in Michigan State University's College of Law, Director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center, and an appellate justice for several Michigan tribal courts. In 2010 Professor Fletcher was elected to the American Law Institute.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Michigan State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1611865239
• ISBN 13: 9781611865233
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 132
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