Tag: Elisa Washuta

• ​On “The Shapes of Native Nonfiction”

  

  A bright, seasonably cool day. The stiff breezes of the past few days have finally subsided somewhat. Wait! As soon as I wrote this the wind picked up and is moving the mostly bare tree branches vigorously. I’ve been reading experimental essays by a host of Native American writers in ​Shapes of Native Nonfiction, edited…

  Michael Watson PhD

  November 18, 2025

  Arts, autumn, Cycles, denial, family, First Nations, Grief and Fear, Healing, Landscape, native american, Nature, Racism, Terror, Sacred Lands, self care, Social issues, spirituality, Stories, writing writers

  Arts, autumn, ecosystem, Elisa Washuta, essays, extractive capitalism, healing, History, Indigenous, Native American, native-americans, nature, Shapes of Native Nonfiction, stories, Theresa Warburton, trauma