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A razor-sharp, clear-eyed collection of essays on what it means to be a proudly queer indigenous woman in the United States today
Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation. Her purpose is to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and conscientious honesty.
Unapologetically punk, the essays in Thunder Song segue from the miraculous to the mundane, from the spiritual to the physical, as they examine the role of art—in particular music—and community in helping a new generation of indigenous people claim the strength of their heritage while defining their own path in the contemporary world.
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“Incandescent…Thunder Song [is] powerfully animated by the ‘spirit songs’ of LaPointe’s matrilineal line…in a Native punk mode all her own.”
— BookPage (starred review)
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“LaPointe’s writing is a ballad against amnesia and a call to action for healing, for decolonization, for hope.”
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About Sasha LaPointe
Sasha taq?s??blu LaPointe is a Coast Salish author from the Nooksack and Upper Skagit Indian tribes. She is the author of Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk, winner of a Pacific Northwest Book Award, the Washington State Book Award for Creative Nonfiction/Memoir, and an NPR Best Book of the Year. She received a double MFA degree in creative nonfiction and poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in Tacoma, Washington.