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Paperback: 110 pages/55 poems/31 poets/29 tribes Language: English ISBN-10: 0976867656 ISBN-13: 978-0976867654 Edited by: Kurt Schweigman and Lucille Lang Day Introduction by: James Luna To Purchase: Publisher: Scarlet Tanager Books (January 4, 2016) Advance Praise: "Red Indian Road West is an assertion and a statement saying, 'We have always been here. You will never forget us. You cannot do so.' Indigenous people and their insistent passion. Traveling from inland hills to seashores. Their exper- iences in hot desert and hard mountain. Vital moments to viral moments like no other, but always within the present one. Karuk. Wintu. Konkow. Pomo. Miwok. Mojave. Chumash. Costanoan Esselen. Ohlone. And more. And more than we can name but which will always be remembered. And later on, the Lakota, Dakota, Cherokee, Wampanoag, and others, so our indigenous essence will always be momentous. Read, listen, hear, and be assured. Know again and always!" ‐Simon J. Ortiz, author of Out There Somewhere and Men on the Moon "An anthology is a community, each voice telling its story in this tribal gathering. Red Indian Road West is a pow wow of sorts. It takes many voices to tell the story of the Native spirit and experience. The voices often are uprooted, yet find place within language. There is camaraderie, wounding, anger, defiance, celebration and disclosure in these wolf songs of the heart. ‐Diane Glancy, author of Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education and Report to the Department of the Interior: Poems. About the Editors: Kurt Schweigman has published and performed as Luke Warm Water in the past. His poetry appears in "Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets" (Michigan State University Press, 2008). Kurt was a featured poet at the prestigious Geraldine R. Dodge 12th Biennial Poetry Festival (2008) and the first spoken word poet to receive an Archibald Bush Foundation artist fellowship in literature. He has won Poetry Slam competitions across the United States and in Germany. Kurt has a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from the University of Oklahoma. Born and raised in Rapid City, South Dakota, he now resides in Oakland and is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Lucille Lang Day has published ten poetry collections and chapbooks, including "Becoming an Ancestor" (Cervena Barva, 2015) and "Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems" (Blue Light, 2015). She is also the author of a children's book, "Chain Letter" and a memoir, "Married at Fourteen: A True Story," which received a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Her poems, short stories, and essays have appeared widely in literary magazines and anthologies. She is the founder and director of Scarlet Tanager Books, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and a PhD in science/mathematics education from UC Berkeley. She lives in Oakland, and is of Wampanoag, British, and Swiss/German descent. Contributors: Indira Allegra, Judi Brannan Armbruster, J.P. Dancing Bear, Nanette Bradley Deetz, E.K. Cooper, Roberta Reyes Cordero, Lucille Lang Day, Natalie Diaz, Carolyn Dunn, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Jewelle Gomez, Janice Gould, Alison Hart, John Hershman, Senna Heyatawin, Dave Holt, Frank LaPena, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, James Luna, Sal Martinez, Shaunna Oteka McCovey, Stephen Meadows, Deborah A. Miranda, Manny Moreno, Catherine Nelson-Rodriguez, Linda Noel, Wendy Rose, Sylvia Ross, Kurt Schweigman, Marlon Sherman, Kim Shuck, Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez. From the Book: CHUMASH MAN "Shoo-mash," he says and when he says it I think of ancient sea lion hunts and salt spray windswept across my face They tell him his people are dead "Terminated" It's official U.S. rubber-stamped official Chumash: Terminated a People who died they say a case for anthropologists Ah, but this old one this old one whose face is ancient prayers come to rest this old one knows who he is "Shoo-mash," he says and somewhere sea lions still gather along the California coast and salt spray rises rainbow mist above the constant breaking of the waves ‐Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez: Chumash CROW DANCE Black crow sits on a pine tree, white clouds against an azure sky. North wind whispers her secrets as crow listens from the top of the Earth. We watch each other from different galaxies, circles intersecting circles, as the waters of the San Francisco Bay flow around us. Crow begins his dance as squirrel appears from behind the pine tree. Butterfly and dragonfly watch, as our galaxies intersect for one moment, under a pine tree by the Bay, dancing from the top of the Earth. ‐Nanette Bradley Deetz: Lakota/Dakota/Cherokee
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