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Native Americans
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On Tragedy and Strength: Making Space for Our Stories
I love that—working towards not having regret, in art and in life.
A Confluence of Narratives: Talking with Debra Gwartney
Debra Gwartney discusses her new memoir, I AM A STRANGER HERE MYSELF.
Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Jake Skeets
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
Presence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Laura Da’
Tanaya Winder curates exclusive poetry to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
A Community of the People: Tommy Orange’s There There
THERE THERE does not settle, it unsettles.
Your Patriotism Isn’t Love, It’s Blindness
Love of country, some argue. With their boots firmly planted in my chest as I struggle to protest. No, that is not love, but blindness.
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Wa
It’s about greed; it’s about taking only the best part of things, the cream off the top, the fat. And this taking of the fat has reached a crisis point in America—a critical mass, if you will.
The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Iben Mondrup and Kerri Pierce
Iben Mondrup and Kerri Pierce discuss the translation of Justine, Mondrup's 2012 Danish novel about a young artist in Denmark.
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Great Elk
For a moment, seeing the small figures walking before the elk makes me think that white people know the Great Elk too.
Touring Trump’s America on Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad won the National Book Award on Wednesday night. In his acceptance speech he told us, “We’re happy in here; outside is the blasted hellhole wasteland…
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Woman at Standing Rock
I think back and then here, where I can only think of beasts with stains: oil and blood. They have become as familiar as an oil-stained cloth in a garage, or the things we ignore, just there in the light.