"I sat down to write a book about pain and ended up writing about love

celebrating knowledge and sharing it

the story of the Mille Lacs Reservation is one of triumph--of courage and survival and successful resistance

a manifestation

The lessons he learned about people and their resilience in the region still offer lessons for readers today

Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession stories "I sat down to writeSettler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In Indigenomicon, Jodi A. Byrd examines the differences between the two fields by bringing video game studies and Indigenous studies into conversation with Black studies, queer studies, and Indigenous feminist critique. Byrd theorizes "the image of the law of the Indigenous" as structuring dispossession in games including Assassin's Creed, Animal