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laughing to keep from crying

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff

April 28, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

A book to make you howl with both laughter and fury, We Had a Little Real Estate Problem gushes with humor, outrage, determination, and life. Kliph Nesteroff has worked with a large and knowledgeable team to document the past, track the current, and look towards the future of Native American comedy. Framed around a beloved punchline from Charlie Hill, the first Native American comedian to be featured on The Tonight Show, We Had a Little Real Estate Problem, is both a knee-slapper and a heart-breaker. I […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Adrianne Chalepah, American History, audio, Canadian history, Charlie Hill, Indigenous Peoples, Jackie Keliiaa, Jana Schmieding, Joey Clift, Jonny Roberts, Kliph Nesteroff, Native Ladies of Comedy, native voices, Race, read by the author, Show Business, standup comedy, The 1491s, Will Rogers

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:37 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Adrianne Chalepah, American History, audio, Canadian history, Charlie Hill, Indigenous Peoples, Jackie Keliiaa, Jana Schmieding, Joey Clift, Jonny Roberts, Kliph Nesteroff, Native Ladies of Comedy, native voices, Race, read by the author, Show Business, standup comedy, The 1491s, Will Rogers ·
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Started November 12th. Finished January 12th. The breaks in reading were NECESSARY

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

January 12, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 7 Comments

…but the journey was worth it. This book is brutal. If you are sensitive at all to suffering- be it human, animal, generational, cultural- turn away now and do not look back. Four Blackfeet men engage in a bit of last-minute less-than-legal Elk hunting the weekend before Thanksgiving. What happens that day never really leaves them, but what they left behind comes rocketing back into their lives 10 years later. The 10 years since that day have not been easy; the men are plagued by […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Suspense Tagged With: American Indian, audio, blackfeet, book riot read harder challenge, cultural identity, folklore, generational trauma, gore, graphic violence, legend, murder, native voices, Own voices, paranormal, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Stephen Graham Jones, supernatural, survival, thriller, tradition

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Suspense · Tags: American Indian, audio, blackfeet, book riot read harder challenge, cultural identity, folklore, generational trauma, gore, graphic violence, legend, murder, native voices, Own voices, paranormal, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Stephen Graham Jones, supernatural, survival, thriller, tradition ·
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Cohesive beauty that’ll knock you off your feet

An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo

December 18, 2020 by Mobius_Walker 2 Comments

Joy Harjo a member of the Mvskoke Nation and is the current Poet Laureate of the United States. In An American Sunrise, Harjo skillfully crafts a collection poems that are deeply personal to her own life, highly informative of the Native history and experience, and wonderfully universal in truth and beauty. What I found the most beautiful of the entire collection was Harjo’s ability to weave not just consistent themes throughout the entire collection but her ability to layer details, events, and people throughout the […]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: joy harjo, Mvskoke, native American, native voices, poems, poet laureate

Mobius_Walker's CBR12 Review No:47 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: joy harjo, Mvskoke, native American, native voices, poems, poet laureate ·
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Dear Diary; nature has gone haywire

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

December 29, 2019 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

A young Native American woman learns that she is pregnant in a time of miracles and disaster; nature has gone haywire. Evolution has sped up, gone sideways, and/or stopped all together. Times are trying. It is a particularly frightening time to be a single person with an unplanned pregnancy- especially when religious-esque government agents are collecting and imprisoning pregnant women. Our narrator, Cedar, gives us her story through the pages of her diary. She is keeping accounts of her body and the world around her […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: adoption, Catholicism, cultural identity, dystopian future, evolution, handmaid's tale, Louise Erdrich, magical realism, marital law, miracles, Motherhood, native voices, reproductive rights

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR11 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: adoption, Catholicism, cultural identity, dystopian future, evolution, handmaid's tale, Louise Erdrich, magical realism, marital law, miracles, Motherhood, native voices, reproductive rights ·
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