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Finite Sunshine for a Forgetful Mind

By Angie Brown Posted on August 11, 2019 Posted in Fiction, Student 2019, Writing Contest Honorable Mentions

Untitled by Erik Sanchez of the Institute of American Indian Arts

Every morning started out the same in the Lumbee’s home. The familiar sound of bacon sizzling on the stove as the comforting aroma of freshly brewed hazelnut coffee lingered throughout the house. Mrs. L, always ahead of the early bird, …

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Forgotten Gender

By Garrison Bennett Posted on August 11, 2019 Posted in Poetry, Student 2019, Writing Contest Honorable Mentions

Self Reflection by Casandra Artichoker of Sinte Gleska University

Gender comes and goes in different forms. Don’t feel lost or bad because this is what you are. To the ones that tried to force us out or forget us; you thought wrong. We are here to stay, together we …

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Not Your TV Indian

By Miranda Lauren Saunders Posted on August 11, 2019 Posted in Poetry, Student 2019, Writing Contest Honorable Mentions

Cansasa Wakan, Keep Tobacco Sacred by Marissa Irizarry of the Institute of American Indian Arts

Why are we the only ones who have to prove we exist? So many of us equate our Indianness with our blood quantum Our self-worth hanging on the edge of that number Like show horses or breeding dogs An imaginary …

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