Excerpt: Those of us who work in Native American literature (and I imagine this includes anyone inclined to peruse this essay) are perfectly familiar with William Bevis’s formulation of the homing plot. Within such narratives, a lost young Native protagonist ventures out into the world, becomes psychically and physically wounded, and returns home to heal.

Excerpt: Indigenous science fiction—that is, science fiction written by Indigenous authors, as opposed to texts that simply include Native characters—is a relatively new genre, and the question of how we might define, or even name, that genre is still under discussion.

With two historical chapters of special interest for the readers of this blog: 1) On the ways in which a diaspora was constituted as a settler body politics; and 2) On the ways in which a settler polity refused taxation.