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Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
by Daniel Heath Justice
A thoughtful and deeply researched survey of the importance of Indigenous literature. Justice divides the book into four main sections, each titled with a question: "How do we learn to be human? How do we become good relatives? How to we become good ancestors? How so we learn to live together?" Indigenous texts and authors have always addressed these deep and vital concerns, and they continue to do so today. Justice pulls quotes from novels, poems, plays and essays that especially address these points, and weaves them together with political and social context. I am not very well read in this genre, so most of the authors were not familiar to me. As I read I kept a list of all the books that especially caught my interest, and I now have a long list for future reading.