Abstract. This chapter exam the work of Louise Erdrich, one of the most renowned thors Amerin Indian lerature. Erdrich reprents lbian, gay, bis
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* queer native american literature *
Livg the Spir: A Gay Amerin Indian Anthology. Gay Amerin Indians (Organizatn).
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This book is not so much a manifto as is a dialogue—a “wrg nversatn”—among a lumo group of scholar-activists revisg the history of gay and lbian studi Indigeno muni while fg a path for Indigenocentered theori and methodologi. But the openly gay Coast Salish om the Sliammon First Natn is still reprentg his muni.