Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance

Gerald Vizenor was a journalist for the Minneapolis Tribune when he discovered that his direct ancestors were the editor and publisher of The Progress, the first Native newspaper on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. Vizenor, inspired by the kinship of nineteenth century Native journalists, has pursued a similar sense of resistance in his reportage, editorial essays, and literary art.

Vizenor reveals in Native Liberty the political, poetic, visionary, and ironic insights of persona...