A mind spread out on the ground, Alicia Elliott
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A mind spread out on the ground, Alicia Elliott
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eng
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autobiography
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non fiction
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A mind spread out on the ground
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Alicia Elliott
Summary
The Mohawk phrase for depression, Wake'nikonhra'kwenhtará:'on, can be roughly translated as "a mind spread out on the ground." Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of the personal, 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 thrilling connections between the past and present, the personal and political
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adult
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