author of Original Local: Indigenous Foods

At the crossroads of this brokenness

Is she under the porch

Among the Diné/Navajo

and our waterways

Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities Mohawk author of Original Local: IndigenousIn 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