there to hold him tight

one that is distorted and trivialized by an ill-suited Eurocentric paradigm of scientific investigation and classification

the clan and extended family system

Positioning our responsibilities as humans to our more-than-human relatives

A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy

Indigenous Inhumanities: California Indian Studies After the Apocalypse writing there to hold him tightMark Minch de Leon explores the anticolonial dimensions of California Indian intellectual and cultural resurgence in the aftermath of apocalypse in this compelling reexamination of Indigenous art, literature, and theory. Centering on a reinterpretation of the Ghost Dance, a ceremony first practiced in the nineteenth century, as a collective demonstration of prophecy and resilience, Indigenous Inhumanities envisions an expanded poetics of resistance