It is impossible for us to not do both.” ( ) Our hands live and work in the present, while pulling on the past. We drive the trucks to the demonstrations, we tie the sashes of our children, dancing for the first time in the circle of the drum.
We use our fists, our pens, our paints, our cameras. We make baskets, lift heavy machinery, bead earrings, soothe our lovers – female or male – hold our elders. Some hands have only just begun to touch paper and pencil without fear. Some hands are comfortable with a typewriter, with a pen. I believe in each and every Indian woman whose words and pictures lie between the pages of this book.
In this book she has presented a collection of essays from Indigenous women from all walks of life, reflecting on both their past heritage and acestors as well as their community today in the present modern time. Local author and activist, Beth Brant is a Bay of Quinte Mohawk from Deseronto, Ontario. “Black Coffee Poet wants to share with the world the many different faces of poetry who are ignored by the literati … Red, Black, Brown, Female, Disabled, Queer, Poor, Jailed, Homeless, Working Class, Self-Taught, Revolutionary, and Controversial.”īeth Brant, A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Indian Women
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