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Native Literatures Generations (NLG) is dedicated to providing a global forum for original works of literature by writers from the indigenous nations of North America and Hawai'i. Our goal is to support writers in their endeavors by offering a venue for linking them with new audiences and potential publishers. Moreover, our magazine is designed to generate funds to provide financial support for writers through scholarships and project funding.
NLG is a quarterly, with content accessible online for only three months (with rights reverting to authors thereafter).
NLG is seeking submissions, please view our Submissions Page.
Our Board
D.L. Birchfield, Gloria Bird, Sherwin Bitsui, Kimberly Blaeser, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Heid Erdrich, Eric Gansworth, Gordon Henry Jr., Joy Harjo, kuʽualoha hoʽomanawanui, Lee Maracle, Dian Million, Simon Ortiz, Luci Tapahonso, Laura Tohe
Essays
Remedial Choctology For Anthropologists
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
D.L. Birchfield
“And, when, purely as a result of your intellectual ponderings, you are ready to surrender to the Choctaws, let us know.
We’ll be happy to manage all of your affairs.”
All by Chance, Nothing by Chance
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
MariJo Moore
“Now I am a part of the We. Each of my brothers, each of my sisters, has memories of stories of winter demons. And if pressed, probably memories of stories of summer demons. We lived them, with them, beside them, in spite of them; we lived."
Resonant Voices
"The Heart of Auss" and more
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
John Wenitong (Australia) “The Heart of Auss,” “Nootchus,” and “I got ‘Lations”
“Long time ago there was nothing else
No plane no car no photocells
And we walk and we talk and believe the land
And bond together in little bands”
"Raza Children at Recess" and more
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Tony Robles
“Raza Children at Recess (Mex-i-co!- Mex-i-Co! - Mex-i-Co!)" and “Top Cop (Or the Bee Keeper)
"A feeling washed over my body as if I was deprived of oxygen and, in an instant, the breath of life entered me and nourished everything that had been lacking in my soul. A deep breath took me."
Verse
"One-armed Nicola" and more
Fri, Jul 30, 2010
Marge Bruchac
“One-armed Nicola,” “Praying Spoils the Hunting,” “Once Broken”
“As he eases into the bones
of that young body,
one arm is holding a stick,
the other is holding a cross.”
"Early Conversation" and more
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Ardie Medina
“Early Conversation,” “A Winter’s Tale,” and “Basket Maker”
“Perhaps she planted the seed of a dream…
grew it into her life, radiating out from her center, then
coiled it deftly into her palm.”
"In 68" and more
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
lance henson four poems
“I have gone toward those who are lost
And found your footprints
Even at the edge
Of nothing…..”
Exchange
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Holland M. Colclasure
“Warriors became hollow with the carving of our
dreams, those exchanges of furs for nightmares.”
"Innominata" and more
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Brigit Truex
“Innominata,” “Naming,” and “Regalia Police”
“Yours were the first human feet
to halt, to hold you transfixed,
speechless, breathless.
Yours, the first hand to inscribe it in air.”
"Antiquing with Indians" and more
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Tiffany Midge
“Antiquing with Indians,” “Funeral for a Sioux Elder,” and “Once Upon A River”
“Latona mentioned how she’d discovered
a Tonto doll, stoic and monosyllabic,
seated next to a Custer puppet”
“Jacinta’s Medicine,” and more
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Deborah Miranda
“Jacinta’s Medicine,” “Four Things You Can Do With Your Chart for Calculating Quantum of Indian Blood,” “The End of the World,” “Genealogy of Violence,” and “Los Pajaros”
“they meet with our surviving leaders
in broken cities, sign
peace treaties translated by -
you guessed it - their interpreters,
shake hands or claws or tentacles”
"Snake Dreaming" and more
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
MariJo Moore
“Snake Dreaming” and “Bones”
“Listen to those that have found you.
Paint them with your mixed-up colors.
Put them under your soft feather pillow.
Dream the hard feelings those bones have deeply known.”
"White Privilege"
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Brittany Luby "White Privilege"
“I want my language back
to read my Auntie’s smoke rings
like vowels as they are written across
potato chips and dirty coffee cups”
"A Gift from My Students" and more
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Janice Gould
“A Gift from My Students,” “It Was Raining,” and “Renegade”
“Abandoned
but not disowned, she married white and went back home
only when the tank was full, smoking at a steady fifty
up the river road, taking each snake-eyed turn in stride.”
"Wind River" and more
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Sy Hoahwah “Wind River,” “2nd Cousin To Lightning” and “White Crazy and Grief”
“So focused on listening,
we pedal out to where
moonlight broke like a knife blade
on the silence.”
Genealogy of Violence
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Deborah Miranda
“Jacinta’s Medicine,” “Four Things You Can Do With Your Chart for Calculating Quantum of Indian Blood,” “The End of the World,” “Genealogy of Violence,” and “Los Pajaros”
"Gospel Singing on Valentine’s Day" and more
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Alice Azure “Gospel Singing on Valentine’s Day,” “A Blessing” and from “Ice Break”
“I lace my skates,
glide onto diamond ice.
Barren trees rim the shore,
define a course for my blades—”
“Four Things You Can Do With Your Chart for Calculating Quantum of Indian Blood”
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Deborah Miranda
Other Media
No Wasted Seasons
Mon, Jul 26, 2010
"A Conversation on the Poetics of Gordon Henry, Jr." at the Native American Literature Symposium, March 2010 (Chair, far right, Molly McGlennen; left to right, Gordon Henry, Jesse Peters, Jane Haladay, and Kimberly Blaeser)
Stories
One of Those Times
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Matthew Haynes
“She looked like her mother in the picture that hung above the mantle. One of those black and whites. Pre-wedding. In a studio with a fake nature background. Her head titled just a bit to the left. Her half-smile.”
The American Indian Atomic Bomb Acquisition Authorization Act of 2004
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
D.L. Birchfield
“The distribution of four hundred hydrogen bombs to those forty Indian nations in 2004, ten to each nation, has been praised as a model of Pentagon efficiency in implementing a complex piece of legislation that mandated an exacting timetable which required speed and efficiency of the utmost urgency.”
Maggie Two Spots
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Holland M. Colclasure
“The heat from the fire soothed her. She sensed he was close. She was worried. She looked up following the smoke. As soon as the smoke cleared the wall it began to disappear as the wind caught and carried it into the night.”
Race Mixing
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Dean Chavers
This excerpt is from “The War Hero” by Dean Chavers, a tale of marriage between an Indian man and a white woman in North Carolina right after the Korean War.
Gaspra Attack
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Jeanette Weaskus
“She swung into the bug’s right eye, then arced the bat around into the left. Double blows backed by the tremendous force of a firefighter and part-time logger crushed the face of the first bug.”
Four Stories about Home
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Deborah Miranda
“But in the morning the Indians are gone. The cliff is still there, the woods are still there, the soldiers are still there. But the Indians, huddled in the Mother’s arms, have miraculously escaped.”
Indeterminate Creatures
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Jeanne Reames
“The two girls moved with the rest of the human flow, Sonja following Mae like a Aryan Valkyrie, though this muddy soil lay very far from the coo-coo clocks, lacy-trim houses, and red-geranium flower boxes of Der Vaterland.”
A Christmas Story
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Geary Hobson
“Elizabeth looked into the bedroom where James lay sleeping on his stomach on the small bed, one foot, with a blue sock still on, sticking out from the covers like the rudder of a small, grounded sailboat.”