Coming from the only woman to ever publish a book of poetry in Zoque and Spanish

The creative use of text and language throughout this collection suggests that creative use of language can become a bold way through the traps set up to confine speakers to sanctioned ways of expressing themselves

one that is distorted and trivialized by an ill-suited Eurocentric paradigm of scientific investigation and classification

Positioning our responsibilities as humans to our more-than-human relatives

the clan and extended family system

Indigenous Inhumanities: California Indian Studies After the Apocalypse writing Coming from the only womanMark Minch de Leon explores the anticolonial dimensions of California Indian intellectual and cultural resurgence in the aftermath of apocalypse in this compelling reexamination of Indigenous art, literature, and theory. Centering on a reinterpretation of the Ghost Dance, a ceremony first practiced in the nineteenth century, as a collective demonstration of prophecy and resilience, Indigenous Inhumanities envisions an expanded poetics of resistance