5/20/2023 0 Comments There there author![]() ![]() There There begins with a scathing history of the treatment of Native Americans following their earliest encounters with European colonizers. Orange, a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma, grew up as the son of a white mother and Cheyenne father in Oakland, Calif., and There There rises from questions about his own identity, faith, race and the social uncertainty facing what he refers to in the novel as “Urban Indians.” ![]() ![]() This month, There There, the powerful debut novel from Tommy Orange, Mailhot’s close fellow-traveler and classmate at the Institute of American Indian Arts, uses fiction for a similar sort of exploration. The memoir, which the author started as a project in a mental institution, chronicled her experiences with mental illness, heartbreak, motherhood and racism under the weighty shadow of her childhood on the Seabird Island Reservation in southwestern British Columbia. Earlier this year, Terese Marie Mailhot’s harrowing and beautiful Heart Berries became an international bestseller and something of a pop culture sensation (the author even appeared on the Daily Show). ![]()
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