Indigenous Americas: Poetry by Indigenous Peoples of the Western Hemisphere

In the spirit of sister nations, of brotherly alliance, in inclusiveness, in the shared principles of possibility and of sheltering relations during a time when our peoples to the south are still enduring odious onslaught of genocidal resource wars and to the north facing impending catastrophic change from global warming, in this time of uniting and reuniting, in the memory of the vast trade routes which thoroughly connected the intact Western Hemisphere pre-contact with European peoples, in the realization of roads that trail their existence even today, in the presence of resistance, reclamation, and renaissance, in the stories, the music, ceremonies, songs?language-- Aboriginal North, Central and South American and surrounding island poets are welcome to submit work to be included in this unique tribal representation of poetry of the Western Hemisphere. Inviting submissions of Native Peoples from the Inuit Village of Resolute Bay, Canada, to Mapuche Pueblo in Chile and everywhere in between.

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Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Huron and Cherokee author of Dog Road Woman; Rock, Ghost, Willow Deer; Off-Season City Pipe;and Blood Run, winner of the American Book Award, is the guest editor for this theme. Hedge Coke is a faculty member of the English Department and MFA program in writing at Northern Michigan University.




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AMERICA INDIGENA:
POESIA DE AUTORES INDIGENAS DEL HEMISFERIO OCCIDENTAL


Con esp�ritu de fraternidad, alianza y acercamiento entre naciones hermanas, compartiendo principios de posibilidad y de uni�n en estos tiempos en los que nuestra gente, hacia el sur, es aun v�ctima de la guerra genocida por los recursos, y hacia el norte, se enfrenta a la cat�strofe inminente del calentamiento global, en estos tiempos de uni�n y reencuentro, con la memoria viva de las grandes rutas de intercambio que conectaban el intacto hemisferio occidental precolombino, en la construcci�n de carreteras que aun hoy recuperan sus huellas, en presencia de la resistencia, la reclamaci�n y el renacimiento, en las historias, la m�sica, las ceremonias y el lenguaje-canci�n�?se invita a poetas ind�genas del norte, centro, sur e islas aleda�as de Am�rica, a que env�en su trabajo y participen en esta representaci�n �nica de poes�a tribual en el hemisferio occidental. Se solicitan contribuciones desde el pueblo Inuit de Resolute Bay, Canad�, hasta el pueblo Mapuche en Chile incluyendo a todos los pueblos que se encuentren en el camino.



Allison Adelle Hedge Coke es una escritora Hur�n y Cherokee. Autora de Dog Road Woman; Rock Ghost, Willow Deer, Off-Season City Pipe; y Blood Run, ganadora del premio American Book Award y editora invitada para este volumen. Hedge Coke hace parte del departamento de ingl�s y del programa de maestr�a para escritores de Northern Michigan University.