Louise Erdrich

the connection between each group’s cultural identity and their ecosystems

rapturous virgins - it's the Trickster who provides the real spark in the action

When she becomes pregnant

women fill the bellies of hungry bears with sweet stories

Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination arts Louise ErdrichWhat does it mean to say that Native peoples exist in the present? In Beyond Settler Time Mark Rifkin investigates the dangers of seeking to include Indigenous peoples within settler temporal frameworks. Claims that Native peoples should be recognized as coeval with Euro Americans, Rifkin argues, implicitly treat dominant non native ideologies and institutions as the basis for defining time itself. How, though, can Native peoples be understood as