Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities animals okpik's poetry speaks to the

okpik's poetry speaks to the dualistic nature of reality and how one's existence in the world simultaneously shapes and is shaped by its environs

the Anishinaabeg and Dakota carved out a place for Native peoples in modern North America

In this visionary novel

told with the lights down low

the army) forced the Papaschase Cree off their home on the prairie

Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities animals okpik's poetry speaks to theIn 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