Annharte

Annharte is a writer I reach for when the mood moves me. The nature of that mood is difficult to define; sometimes it is a good mood, other times it is a bad mood. "Good" and "bad" have little to do with what moves me.

Here is a passage rob mclennan quoted from Annharte's essay collection, AKA Inendagosekwe (CUE, 2013), for a piece he published in Jacket2:

"Don’t listen to your elders…sometimes listen to that coyote voice within you and do something that will both shock and entertain your elders. They like innovation too, not the same boring mainline crap, preaching about Native Culture. We got to decolonize our thinking and that is why experimenting with ideas is needed. Too much of Native Literature is about passively accepting colonization and exploitation. World-wide indigenous writings—the literature of resistance—needs our contribution and attention too."

Annharte, Judith Copithorne, Maxine Gadd and Marcia Crosby are senior writers and thinkers who are important to me. I have learned -- and continue to learn -- so much from them.