Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities animals extraction

extraction

especially when the whole town has forgotten Kiki

They don't understand why a boy would grow his hair long

the legendary lumberjack

told with the lights down low

Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities animals extractionIn Against Extraction Matt Hooley traces a modern tradition of Ojibwe invention in Minneapolis and St. Paul from the mid nineteenth century to the present as that tradition emerges in response to the cultural legacies of US colonialism. Hooley shows how Indigenous literary and visual art modernisms challenge the strictures of everyday life and question the ecological, political, and cultural fantasies that make multivalent US colonialism seem