num_pages: 240
description:  A bold and profound meditation on trauma legacy oppression and racism in North America from award-winning Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliott.In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight into the ongoing legacy of colonialism. She engages with such wide-ranging topics as race parenthood love mental illness poverty sexual assault gentrifcation writing and representation and in the process makes connections both large and small between the past and present the personal and political--from overcoming a years-long battle with head lice to the way Native writers are treated within the Canadian literary industry; her unplanned teenage pregnancy to the history of dark matter and how it relates to racism in the court system; her childhood diet of Kraft Dinner to how systemic oppression is directly linked to health problems in Native communities.With deep consideration and searing prose Elliott provides a candid look at our past an illuminating portrait of our present and a powerful tool for a better future.
language: None
title: A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
publisher: Doubleday Canada