Junk tribal belonging philosophical inquiry into a peculiar

philosophical inquiry into a peculiar vulnerability that goes to the heart of the human condition

to start a new day in the right way

From the Apache to the Zuni

including the Native people's incredible resilience despite rapid change and the impact of European arrivals on Native culture

Three years later

Junk tribal belonging philosophical inquiry into a peculiarJunk is a breakup poem in couplets: ice floe and hot lava, a tribute to Janet Jackson and nacho cheese. In the static that follows the loss of a job or an apartment or a boyfriend, what can you grab onto for orientation? The narrator wonders what happens to the sense of self when the illusion of security has been stripped away. And for an indigenous person, how do these lost markers of identity echo larger cultural losses and erasures in a changing