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02529aam a2200433 i 4500 001 30B8DA2A728011EB94B6876F3DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210219010046 007 tb 008 201014s2021 meu d 000 u eng d 020 $a 1432885391 020 $a 9781432885397 035 $a (OCoLC)1234476181 040 $a DZM $b eng $e rda $c DZM $d OCP $d OCLCO $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a n-cn--- 082 04 $a 971.00497 $2 23 100 1 $a Elliott, Alicia, $e author. 245 12 $a A mind spread out on the ground / $c Alicia Elliott. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Me : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2021. 300 $a 329 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm 340 $n large print $2 rdafs 490 1 $a Thorndike Press large print biography and memoir 505 0 $a A mind spread out on the ground -- Half breed: a racial biography in five parts -- On seeing and being seen -- Weight -- The same space -- Dark matters -- Scratch -- 34 grams per dose -- Boundaries like bruises -- On forbidden rooms and intentional forgetting -- Crude collages of my mother -- Sontag, in snapshots: reflecting on "In Plato's cave" in 2018 -- Two truths and a lie -- Extraction mentalities. 520 $a "The Mohawk phrase for depression, Wake' nikonhra'kwenhtaraÌ:'on, can be roughly translated to 'a mind spread out on the ground.' Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of persona, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced. Elliott's writing details a life spent between Indigenous and white communities, a divide reflected in her own family, and engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, art, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrification, and representation. Throughout, she makes connections between the past and present, the personal and political"--Back cover. 650 0 $a Indigenous peoples $z Canada $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Colonization $x Social aspects $z Canada. 650 0 $a Racism $z Canada. 651 0 $a Canada $x Race relations. 650 0 $a Large type books. 655 7 $a Personal Narratives. $2 lcgft 830 0 $a Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs. 941 $a 3 945 $a lpt 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010022945.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220517010403.0 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20210603010645.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=30B8DA2A728011EB94B6876F3DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search