CNAIS faculty Stephen Graham Jones on Transcending Stereotypes

Stephen Graham Jones at CU. Photo credit: Anthony Camera
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High Country News: You鈥檝e said that you 鈥済ot really tired of people asking in interviews, 鈥榃hat鈥檚 supposed to be Indian about this?鈥� 鈥� and that in several books you鈥檝e disguised elements that come from Native culture.
Stephen Graham Jones:听My book听Growing up Dead in Texas听(MP Publishing LTD, 2012) only has the word 鈥淚ndian鈥� once in it. But to me that book is so Indian. It鈥檚 the life patterns that are Indian, not the skin tone or cultural heritage. It鈥檚 a way of existing in the world, a world you don鈥檛 always plug into the way you feel that you鈥檙e supposed to.听
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