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Evidence of Redcontains dramatic events of the creation of a people, interwoven with a haunting narrative of their lost homelands. Howe takes her readers through the chaos of lost lives, the cannibalism of fallen lovers, and invites readers into her world of Choctaw Code Talking. These poems are rebellious and like the Choctaws, they will endure.
List of contents
- Creation
- IT Geography
- Evidence of Red
- Hashi mi Mali
- The Unknown Women
- Chaos
- The Chaos of Angels
- How My Fever Broke
- The Red Wars
- Choctalking on Other Realities
- Cannibalism
- A Duck's Tune
- A Carbon Isotopic Perspective on Dietary Variation in Late Prehistoric Times: Or, Friends I have Loved and Ingested
- The List We Make
- My Name Is Noble Savage
- The Indian Sports Mascot Meets Noble Savage
- Disney's Pocahontas Longs for Noble Savage
- Ballad of Red Sorrow
- Still Code Talking
- Choctaw Code Talking
- The Lie
- Post-Mortem
- Bird Woman Returns
- Horse Dreaming
- Kick Boxing
- Indians Never Say Good-bye
About the author
LeAnne Howe, an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is an author, playwright, filmmaker and scholar. Born and educated in Oklahoma, she's lectured in Japan, Jordan, Romania, and Spain. Shell Shaker, Howe's first novel, received an American Book Award in 2002 from the Before Columbus Foundation. In 2003, she was named Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year, 2002, Creative Prose. Equinoxes Rouge, the French translation for Shell Shaker is the 2004 finalist for the Prix Medici Etranger, one of France's top literary awards. Currently she is assistant professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. In September 2005, she will be an associate professor in the Departments of English, and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
