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Dear
friends on the Equity list:
Please
share this information below with those who might be interested.
Miigwech/thank
you,
April
Lindala, Director
NMU
Center for Native American Studies
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Seeking
Submissions
for a
book of literature and art on the
contemporary
American Indian experience in Michigan
The anthology will be
published by Northern Michigan University’s Center for Native American
Studies and NMU Press, with funding from the Michigan Humanities Council.
Please
submit your original,
unpublished poem, short story, creative nonfiction essay, memoir, profile,
cartoon, comic strip, stand alone excerpt from a longer work, drawing,
illustration, or photograph that depicts the contemporary Native American
experience in Michigan. Submissions must be one-half page to 12 pages in
length.
The
editors are interested in stories and art by and/or about recent Michigan
Indians. We seek texts and images addressing “contemporary Indian
identity in Michigan.” Who and what are Michigan Indians today? What are
their lives like in Michigan in the 21st century? How have their
experiences and those of their ancestors influenced or informed who they are?
Are there Indian “transplants” who bring perspectives from other
places that diversify the Michigan experience? How do they enrich us?
Topics
and subjects may include, but are not limited to: the land, the lakes, family,
the search for center, ideas of time and the past, communalism and our Native
communities on and off reservation homelands, orality, storytelling, the power
of words and symbols, Indian education, places and Indian place making in the
state, sacred site retention and loss, Indian/land reciprocity, the Michigan
urban Indian experience, ceremony and ritual, persistence of traditional arts
and lifeways, and new cultural ways.
All
work must reflect being Indian in Michigan and, at some point, it must focus on
or address issues of Indian modernity. Humorous submissions are encouraged. While
the anthology, tentatively titled Who We Are Now: Storying Michigan
Indigenes, may be used in classrooms, it is intended for a general
audience. Authors/artists whose work is included in the anthology will receive
two copies of the book as remuneration.
Mail
or email manuscripts (up to 4,000 words or a maximum of 12 pages), poems or
images (up to three, color or black and white, 300 dpi minimum). Submit to:
Grace
Chaillier, Anthology Project Coordinator
NMU
Center for Native American Studies
1401
Presque Isle Avenue
Marquette,
MI 49855
For
questions, call 906-227-1397 (email is best way to reach us)
Submission
Deadline – October 15, 2010
“Who We Are Now: Storying Michigan Indigenes" is made
possible in part by a grant from Michigan Humanities Council, an affiliate of
the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or
recommendations expressed in this project do not necessarily represent those of
the National Endowment for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities Council, or
Northern Michigan University.