I feel very lucky to have my short essay on “Indigenizing Wikipedia” included in a new book-in-progress: Web Writing: Why… Read More
Can the Digital Humanities Be Decolonized?
I was recently party to a debate, conducted mainly on blogs and Twitter, about an online journal’s decision to put… Read More
Days of DH at Northeastern University, March 18, 2013
Here are the slides and text for the “lightning talk” I’m to give tomorrow at Northeastern for their “Days of… Read More
Indigenizing Wikipedia
Today there is an international feminist takeover of Wikipedia; you can follow it on Twitter using #tooFEW. It was a… Read More
The Boston Children’s Museum as a Native Literary Hub
This is the paper I’ll present tomorrow at MLA in Boston. You can see my slides here. Sovereignty and… Read More
A Dawnland Voices Wordle
My colleague James Finley produced this word cloud by running the entire manuscript for Dawnland Voices–the 600-page anthology of regional… Read More
Digitizing Tribal Newsletters
As I look forward to the third Indigenous New England Conference tomorrow at UNH, I’m especially interested in speaking with… Read More
Mihku Paul’s first chapbook
It’s a beautiful thing that Bowman Books is now publishing regional Native titles faster than I can review them. I… Read More
A New Digital Anthology of Regional Native Writing
This is a fairly academic (but short!) piece I wrote for an NEH Institute of Digital Humanities, which I attended… Read More
Trace DeMeyer and Blue Hand Books
Trace DeMeyer, who lives in western Massachusetts, has been an important figure in the regional Native literary scene. In the… Read More
UNH Conference
DAWNLAND VOICES: A CELEBRATION SATURDAY, NOV. 1, 2014 in Holloway Commons at UNH This year, in lieu of the… Read More
A Penobscot Musical in the Making
Last Monday, May 21, I was lucky enough to get up to Orono to see a staged reading of Donna… Read More
Deacon and Lewy Sockbason, early Passamaquoddy writers
Last night, at the Windows on Maine site, I ran across this early-19th-century penmanship sample from a 15-year-old Passamaquoddy student,… Read More
An open bibliography of regional literature
Here is a link to my bibliography of regional Native American literature, on which I’m eager to entertain comments and… Read More
Early Native Writers on the Web
I’ve been absent from this blog for a couple of months, because I have been absorbed in a new class… Read More
Carol Bachofner’s new book is here
Abenaki poet Carol Bachofner’s new book is out!–thanks to the inimitable Joe and Jesse Bruchac (Abenaki), and their publishing venture,… Read More
Nov. 24: National Day of Mourning
What the United States calls “Thanksgiving,” indigenous people call the National Day of Mourning. In 1970, when the state of… Read More
John Christian Hopkins and Trace DeMayer: 11-11-11 e-launch!
With a wink to today’s Mayan Apocalypse, John Christian Hopkins (Narragansett) and Trace DeMeyer (Shawnee/Cherokee) are launching an indigenous e-publishing… Read More
