Power in the Telling: Grand Ronde, Warm Springs, and Intertribal Relations in the Casino Era (Indigenous Confluences)

This book paints a clear picture for those who may not know the history, or those who needed the details filled in. I highly recommend this book.

Just started reading it, but so far, it's great.

This book thoroughly investigates how federal and state polices of the United States of America continue to create a scarcity of resources for Native American communities. Although the focus of this amazing analysis is on the Grand Ronde and Warm Springs Reservations and the many number of tribes that were forced to those lands of so-called Oregon, this case study can be extrapolated to represent violence of U.S. government agencies towards Native American communities. This is a necessary read for anyone living on Native Land, to understand how they are complicit in upholding the restriction of resources to Native American communities, beyond casinos and federally-recognized tribes. Furthermore, the author interviewed so delicately and respectfully to their own communities and neighboring communities. There is incredibly powerful truth that is told about the role that casinos play to provide resources, a clearly insufficient amount and creates a scarcity/limited access, in this timeless masterpiece.

While appreciating the beauty, music, pathos and playfulness in David Hathwell's poems, I've always wished that his commentary--so engaging in his book readings for his earlier books (MUSES and BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF)--were available in print. Now it is! In addition to his powerful collected poems in THE POWER OF THE TELLING, the volume has seventeen pages of his notes.