Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities

Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin CitiesIn Against Extraction Matt Hooley traces a modern tradition of Ojibwe invention in Minneapolis and St. Paul from the mid nineteenth century to the present as that tradition emerges in response to the cultural legacies of US colonialism. Hooley shows how Indigenous literary and visual art modernisms challenge the strictures of everyday life and question the ecological, political, and cultural fantasies that make multivalent US colonialism seem

Thunder starts to understand how sounds like bird wings flapping and rushing water can help him feel calm and connected

Nancy Jones

Native workers called skywalkers have sculpted city skylines

and keenly aware of the power of stories

and beyond

set against a hilarious chronicle of fitness fads in our times

In this transformative synthesis he shows that

perspiration

all five pueblos experienced serious population declines

Many of these poems engage ekphrasis around the visual work of contemporary artists who

A first conversation about the importance of Nibi—which means water in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)—and our role to thank

and storytelling