Status Updates From Speaking for the Generation...

The question puzzled me then, and it still does, because I realize that as a writer, a Native and a woman whatever I write is inevitably informed by experiences that in turn are informed by the process of socialization and colonization. It is curious that I would be asked to isolate ... what makes up my being-and to simplify into bare terms what that means, glossing over process to discuss product

"What is understood is that our position within a system that is designed to deny us is tenuous and continually threatened, there is truly strength in the numbers of witnesses who can carry our stories outward"

"Thus witnessing and testimony become viable tools that serve the purposes of decolonization by providing details processing complexities of inheritance that living in the aftermath of colonization provides"