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Official promo for Nadya Kwandibens’ social photo series, Concrete Indians, focusing on the urban Indian.
The official website written on the promo doesn’t seem to be up yet, but you can visit www.concreteindians.ning.com and join in the fun by adding your own photos of Concrete Indians.
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Take My Life, Please: The Indian Version
“Tales of an Urban Indian,” which is being revived as part of the Public Lab series, doesn’t belittle or romanticize, but it still seems as formulaic as any Hollywood movie, a standard-issue coming-of-age tale about early romantic angst, surviving tragedy, and the thorny question of assimilation. Mr. Dennis adopts an ingratiating persona, cracking jokes at his own expense and turning church into a Fosse-like musical theater number. The pacing and tone often resemble those of a comedy club act. But that’s what makes Mr. Dennis a somewhat strange critic of cultural stereotyping. Whites here are distant and condescending. West Coasters are laid back and stoned. And when he anthropomorphizes the cockroaches in his apartment, they speak in a Mexican accent. It’s telling that when he sees God in an epiphany, it’s Jackie Mason.
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I can’t shape-shift,” Mr. Dennis says in the show. “I can’t even make it rain, for God sakes!
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Faces to Watch - Darrell Dennis’s ‘Urban Indian’ Returns to the Public
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/theater/22Denn.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
A RAUCOUS burst of drums, a howling coyote and a whistling flute are the first things the audience hears in “Tales of an Urban Indian.” Then the mystical sounds quiet down, and Darrell Dennis, creator and star of this solo show, adds the punch line: “Now that we got that out of our system, let’s begin.”
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Facebook no friend to American Indian names | Indian Country Today
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/39559977.html
For about a week, Robin Kills The Enemy was friendless.
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British publisher touts American Indian poets
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/05/RV4011RI57.DTL
The most interesting project in American poetry isn’t really an American project.
The Earthworks initiative is an award-winning series of poetry collections by contemporary American Indian writers published by Salt Publishing - one of the most well-respected literary presses - in England. With books by some of the field’s heaviest hitters - Carter Revard, Gerald Vizenor, LeAnne Howe, Heid Erdrich, Janet McAdams, Diane Glancy and others - Earthworks and Salt have put recent Indian poetry on the literary map like nothing before. What’s more, the Earthworks books have become among Salt’s best-sellers, prompting the press, in Cambridge, to add more titles to its catalog of Native poetry.
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from “Noble Savage Sees a Therapist,” a hilarious poem from Howe’s “Evidence of Red”:
I don’t feel like
Maiming,
Scalping,
Burning wagon trains.
I’m developing hemorrhoids
from riding bareback
It’s an impossible role.
The truth is I’m conflicted.
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At present, there are 18 Earthworks books, with three more to come, representing the largest contemporary ethnic American poetry series in the world. Taken as a whole, the series functions as a public diary of poetry, chronicling the daily realities of living as an Indian in the United States
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Tribune Photo/BARBARA ALLISON “American Indian #4,” by Fritz Scholder from the Midwest Museum of American Art.
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Tribune Photo/BARBARA ALLISON “Last Indian with American Flag,” by Fritz Scholder from the Midwest Museum of American Art.
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Tribune Photo/BARBARA ALLISON “College Indian Dancing” is one of the paintings featured in the exhibition “Modern Images of Native Americans: The Art of Fritz Scholder” at the Midwest Museum of American Art through Oct. 5.
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