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HOME | Remaining Native Doc Remaining Native is a coming-of-age documentary told from the perspective of Ku Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner, struggling to navigate his dream of becoming a collegiate athlete as the ...

I really hope Remaining Native gets on the Oscars list

www.remainingnativedocumentary.com

Darcie Little Badger and Stacie Denetsosie mwahahha

They banned Elatsoe in Florida 😭 My mystery about a girl and her ghost dog!!!

Stacie and I, as Utah Navajos familiar with terrible Utah legislators, attended and spoke out about HB261, encouraged Native and queer students to continue speaking up and writing their own stories, and gave out the anthology for free. I'm proud of my co-editors.

WOW!
After raising complaints across platforms following our response to Weber State University's list of "banned" concepts, Weber State is reconsidering its Anti-DEI policy w/ speakers:
HUGE props to Darcie who pulled out to raise awareness & got media's attention:
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What to do when the world is on fire. Taking action for LA and caring for ourselves and others.

Nicole Cardoza at Reimagined turns to "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler and poetry by Kinsale Drake (Diné ) to find opportunity for regenerative change after a blaze.

She also has a list of organizations and mutual aid groups in Los Angeles.

antiracismdaily.beehiiv.com/p/what-to-do...

Read the poetry collection by Kinsale Drake that Only Poems says enacts the "hope and promise of reciprocity"

The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket is available now at https://www.ugapress.org/9780820367309/the-sky-was-once-a-dark-blanket/

#ugapress #bookreview #poetry

From “Ancestors’ wildest dreams” by Kinsale Drake in The Sky was Once a Dark Blanket

Beautiful.

Laugh in ᏣᎳᎩ is ᎤᏰᏣᏍᎬ (uyetsasgv)

#poetry #booksky

NDN Girls Book Club is so powerful, they distribute truckloads of books to tribal communities, they have merch, they have workshops, they are also authors & poets & do queen shit in their own right individually. Best book club tbh

The Sky Was Once A Dark Blanket by @kinsaledrake.bsky.social @ugapress.bsky.social

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On November 1, submissions open for our Trio Award & Bogan Award! We are honored to have @kinsaledrake.bsky.social and January Gill O’Neil as our judges. Click the link to our Substack to learn more about them! open.substack.com/pub/triohous...

Actress Amber Midthunder, best known for NOVOCAINE (2025) and PREY (2022), gives her reading recs: www.instagram.com/p/DOyOrbfDSO...

NDN Girls Book Club, which distributes free books to tribal communities, was featured in PBS: tn.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ysu...

A pug cuddled in a white blanket looks at an image of Beyond the Glittering World

Peach thinks it’s neat

An image with the cover of Beyond the Glittering World and the starred review: “ This beautiful anthology of poetry and prose by contemporary Native American writers includes traditional motifs along with works of stark feminism and hopeful futurism. The poem “The Rhythm of Becoming” by Dominique Daye Hunter evokes the cadence of oral storytelling (one quatrain begins, “Ni:ska learns the old songs,” followed by the line “She learns the old songs,” which is then repeated twice). A.J. Eversole’s appealing and mischievous story “Dilasulo Walks” is narrated by a pair of moccasins on display in a Dallas museum. The moccasins have a conversation with a Native artist visiting the museum, with whom they agree that “art should be admired, but shoes should be worn,” prompting the artist to walk out with them on her feet. Arielle Twist laments violence against Indigenous women in the poem “In the beginning, it’s just you and me against the world,” in which a daughter worries about how “moms can go missing and die.” In Moniquill Blackgoose’s visionary “Sky Woman Rising: A Memoir,” a storyteller tells a group of children in the 2050s about how their people built the Sky New World, explaining that while many of them left Earth for the utopia, some stayed behind to “preserve and restore” their ancestral land, in the hope that someday they can all return. Readers will find a wide assortment of riches on offer here. (Nov.)”

BEYOND THE GLITTERING WORLD got a starred review in Publishers Weekly!!!! INDIGENOUS FUTURISMS!!!!

[library book sits on dark velvet couch] Cover illustration by Erin Kirk is a red & purple SW landscape/horizon (spires & other rock formations) under a huge, pink, light blue, then deep blue starry sky, all enclosed in a purple & pink-studded frame w/ pink flowers, a blooming cactus, & turquoise jewelry surrounding it. All text is centered. [in large, very light pink, in the light blue cloudy sky portion:] THE SKY WAS ONCE A DARK BLANKET [below the horizon line, in medium, light blue:] KINSALE DRAKE [below, in small pink:] THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES [same pink, below, tiny:] SELECTED BY JACQUELINE ALLEN TRIMBLE

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The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket by @kinsaledrake.bsky.social 🪢🌌

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It’s keeping me going😭😭

COVER REVEAL!!! Our anthology of Indigenous Futurisms <3333

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I don’t know what YOU need but I really liked Kinsale Drake’s The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket.

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Billy-Ray Belcourt, Angeline Boulley, Shane Hawk, and Deborah Taffa Jackson have all praised our anthology, available for preorder now! @littlebadger.bsky.social
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you can vote for my debut book now in the Reading the West Award for Poetry!🩵 readingthewest.com/35th-annual-...

VIVIDUS by Tierra Alysia (Pomo Band of Mission Indians)✨ modeled by me!

the LITERAL U.S. govt: sorry books and the arts and humanities and libraries arent important we're gonna fund tanning beds

native women: we just distributed 3k books by indigenous authors for free to native villages in alaska

ndngirlsbookclub.org

Native-led nonprofit partners with Tlingit and Haida to bring free books to kids Thousands of new books, many by Indigenous writers, are landing in the hands of kids across Southeast Alaska this month.

Native-led nonprofit partners with Tlingit and Haida to bring free books to kids:

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Indigenous fashion week in Santa Fe, New Mexico, explores heritage in silk and hides Fashion designers from across North America are bringing inspiration from their heritage, culture and everyday lives to three days of runway modeling starting Friday in a hub for Indigenous artistry a...

Indigenous fashion is front-page news. IKTR. and check out who's up there w/ Lauren Good Day.....

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humbly and excitedly, I can announce that if you enjoyed my book, you can now vote for my poetry collection, which has been shortlisted via the awards committee for the READING THE WEST Award in Poetry!

Voting ends May 31st via: readingthewest.com

DREAM PROJECT is live for preorder: boozhoo.binderybooks.com/item/GKWqy7f...

its just personified