“[T]here is no image of an American Indian intellectual” wrote the Lakota literary theorist Elizabeth Cook Lynn in 1996. She continues, “It is as though the American Indian has no intellectual voice with which to enter into America’s important dialogues… It is as though the American Indian does not exist except in faux history or corrupt myth.” This has been true also in literary circles. While studying for my comprehensive exams, I struggled to write here regularly, including missing my... Read more