Description
In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and, in some ways, less explored question: once the exile returns, then what?
Using the story of Raven and the Box of Daylight (and relating it to Sun Tzu's equally timeless Art of War) to deepen her narration and reflection, Hayes expresses an ongoing frustration and anger at the obstacles and prejudices still facing Alaska Natives in their own land, but also recounts her own story of attending and completing college in her fifties and becoming a professor and a writer. Hayes lyrically weaves together strands of memoir, contemplation, and fiction to articulate an Indigenous worldview in which all things are connected, in which intergenerational trauma creates many hardships but transformation is still possible. Now a grandmother and thinking very much of the generations who will come after her, Hayes speaks for herself but also has powerful things to say about the resilience and complications of her Native community.
Author: Ernestine Hayes
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 01/11/2019
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780295745725
ISBN10: 029574572X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Native American Studies
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
About the Author
Ernestine Hayes (Tlingit) is professor of English at the University of Alaska Southeast and the 2016-18 Alaska State Writer Laureate.