CNAIS faculty Stephen Graham Jones on Transcending Stereotypes

Stephen Graham Jones at CU. Photo credit: Anthony Camera
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High Country News: You’ve said that you “got really tired of people asking in interviews, ‘What’s supposed to be Indian about this?’ � and that in several books you’ve disguised elements that come from Native culture.
Stephen Graham Jones:ÌýMy bookÌýGrowing up Dead in TexasÌý(MP Publishing LTD, 2012) only has the word “Indianâ€� once in it. But to me that book is so Indian. It’s the life patterns that are Indian, not the skin tone or cultural heritage. It’s a way of existing in the world, a world you don’t always plug into the way you feel that you’re supposed to.Ìý
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