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Ernestine Hayes, The Tao of Raven

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Sun, 02/26/2017 - 4:00pm
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Bellingham, WA 98225-7015

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Using the story of Raven and the Box of Daylight (and relating it to Sun Tzu's equally timeless Art of War) to deepen her narration and reflection, Hayes expresses an ongoing frustration and anger at the obstacles and prejudices still facing Alaska Natives in their own land, but also recounts her own story of attending and completing college in her fifties and becoming a professor and a writer.  Hayes lyrically weaves together strands of memoir, contemplation, and fiction to articulate an Indigenous worldview in which all things are connected, in which intergenerational trauma creates many hardships but transformation is still possible. Now a grandmother and thinking very much of the generations who will come after her, Hayes speaks for herself but also has powerful things to say about the resilience and complications of her Native community.

Ernestine Hayes is assistant professor of English at the University of Alaska Southeast.

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The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir By Ernestine Hayes Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780295999593
Published: University of Washington Press - October 3rd, 2016

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