August 9, 2016
Gerald Vizenor satirically imagines the future of the White Earth constitutionShare
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Cathy Wurzer - Host, Jim Bickal - Producer, Eugene Cha - Associate Producer, Euan Kerr - Reporter, Nancy Lebens - Editor, Gerald Vizenor - Interviewee
MPR’s Euen Kerr reports on poet, novelist, and academic Gerald Vizenor’s novel, Treaty Shirts. The book is a satirical novel examining the impact of the document in the future, blending Ojibwe history, tradition, and dream narratives with popular culture and science technology to create a surreal but pointed view of modern native life.
Report includes interview and reading from Vizenor.
Gerald Vizenor helped draft the White Earth Constitution approved in 2013.
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