[ SECRET POST #5458 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5458 ⌋

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[sabotabby]

I'm going to put in a recommendation for Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild, which is about the Rougarou, a Métis werewolf.

Also the guy who did a sensitivity read for me is apparently working on a compilation of monsters from various Indigenous traditions. Anishinaabe and Cree really don't want outsiders writing about Wendigo, and it's important to respect that, but that doesn't mean that we can't learn (and in some cases write, but carefully and with respect and research) about creatures from Indigenous traditions.

Also also, we are fortunately in the midst of a renaissance of really brilliant Indigenous authors (Dimaline among them) so while certain subjects will likely remain off-limits, there is increasingly more weird scary fiction rooted in Indigenous storytelling.

[tabaqui]

If you had a list of Native authors you would rec, that would be awesome.

[(Anonymous)]

Anything by Jamake Highwater.

[tabaqui]

Ta!

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, that is on me. I didn't expect you to take me seriously. Do not do that. "Highwater" is a notorious fraud, he's a Jewish writer called Jay Marks who passed himself off as a Native cultural expert for over twenty years. I goofed and thought he was well enough known that that answer would be a bit of fun. That is my fault, and I apologise for that. Seriously, avoid anything with his name on it. Either of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamake_Highwater

[tabaqui]

No worries! It's possible I knew this but just blanked on it - my brain isn't what it used to be.
*reads wiki*
Okay, wow. That is some crazy shite. Thanks for the heads up.

[sabotabby]

Besides Cherie Dimaline, off the top of my head I'd rec:

Eden Robinson (skip the last Trickster book, but everything else is amazing)
Rebecca Roanhorse
Tanya Tagaq (she's mainly a musician, but her one book is mindblowingly weird)
Drew Hayden Taylor
Joshua Whitehead
Waubgeshig Rice
Darcie Little Badger (she's just starting out but I'm finding her writing promising!)
Thomas King

Also two story collections with similar names, Love After the End (edited by Joshua Whitehead) and Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time (edited by Hope Nicholson) are amazing and worth checking out.

Also check out Métis In Space, which is a podcast about Indigenous representation in sci-fi and fantasy and absolutely hilarious.

[tabaqui]

Thank you!

[sabotabby]

Any time!