Our Literary Homes: An Introduction to the 2016 Edition Illiruq, in the King Island dialect of Inupiaq, means “(s)he is building a house.” One makes poems through the construction of stanzas. Metaphorically and etymologically, poems, like houses, are made of …
A little over a decade ago I published “The Story of America: A Tribalography,” discussing how Native authors pull together all the elements of their tribe—meaning the people, the land, multiple characters, and all their manifestations and revelations—and connect these …
Yá’át’ééh. Shí éí bilagáanaa k’ehji Irvin Morris dashijiní. Tábaahíéí nishlí dóó Tótsohnii éí báshíshchíín. Tó’áhaníéí dashicheii dóó Kinyaa’áanii éí dashinálí. Nahashch’idí hoolyéédóóéííyisí naashá. K’ad éí T’iists’óóz hoolyédi Diné bee hódehgo bidziilgo óólt’a’ígii, Navajo Technical University hoolyéegii éí naashnish. Bilagáanaa bizaad éí bína’nishtin. …
Four years ago, I wrote the following lines memorializing one of my last times with my mother: “We were alone in the quiet house. Across the road, a cow bellowed and somewhere by the wash, Dogs were barking playfully. One …
In 2013, the great literary giant wrote the introduction to TCJ Student, showing his support for tribal college student creative writing. Here’s a look back at his words of encouragement and inspiration.
The Transformative Power of Writing Due to space constraints within the print edition of the magazine, the staff at Tribal College Journal could only print a portion of Gordon Henry’s original essay. We would like to thank Henry for his …
I was pleased when Laura Paskus, interim editor at Tribal College Journal, contacted me to ask if I’d be willing to be part of the annual Student Edition of the magazine, featuring its writing competition. I was especially pleased to …
The winners and best entries from the 2010 TCJ Student Writing Contest.
Introduction By Joseph M. Marshall, III Life teaches us, or will, that if anything is predictable in an unpredictable world it is change. Indeed, change has been a fact of life for those of us who are indigenous to North …
Introduction By Elizabeth Cook-Lynn “I was living with relatives in a one-room tarpapered house on the Crow Creek Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota when I learned to read English, and as soon as I learned to read, I wanted …
