Touching Home- Stories and Poems by Tribal College Students

by Tribal College Journal (Editor), Tribal College Students, Joseph Marshall III (Introduction)

Overview

Touching Home portrays contemporary Native American life through the raw and honest creative writing of tribal college students. Weaving Native culture and tradition into modern-day reservation life, students confront racism and poverty with anger, forgiveness, humor, and pride. These moving poems and stories will make you laugh, cry, and fill your heart with hope for today’s indigenous people who are working toward a better future for the generations to come. Touching Home was created by Tribal College Journal, a quarterly magazine published by the American Indian Higher Education Consortium.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780984547203
Publisher:	Tribal College Journal
Publication date:	10/01/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	967 KB

Editorial Reviews

The writers and poets who have contributed to the TCJ Student Edition
offer insights into coping with and living in the contemporary world as
who and what they are. They offer glimpses into their experiences, and
of their individual and cultural connection to the past. They continue to
define Native literature.

— Joseph M. Marshall, III

It is with grace and honor that we present our own stories to manifest the
destiny of our dreams and scribe on keyboards and occasionally on
paper, so the world may catch up… Check ‘em out!!!

Chris Eyre

These works signal the future for all of us. It means that self-knowledge
and cultural revitalization are possible in a flawed world of relentless
struggle.

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Enjoy. And be inspired to tell your own stories, write, and sing your own
poetry. This is how we continue.

Joy Harjo

Something quietly revolutionary has happened. Thousands
of young Indians are writing, and they are writing well. I was only the
second generation in my family to regularly put pen to paper.
Authorship was as foreign to me as being an astronaut. But for these
students, writing is as ordinary as breathing and/or drumming.

Sherman Alexie