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Joy Harjo: Crazy Brave (2013, W. W. Norton & Company)

"It was still dark as we walked through the cold morning, under oaks that symbolized the stubbornness and endur-ance of the Cherokee people. They made Tahlequah their capital in the new lands. I looked for handholds in the misty gray sky. I wanted to change everything. I wanted to go back to a place before childhood, before our tribe's removal to Oklahoma."

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Joy Harjo: Crazy Brave (2013, W. W. Norton & Company)

"And whom do I call my enemy? An enemy must be worthy of engagement. I turn in the direction of the sun and keep walking. It's the heart that asks the question, not my furious mind. The heart is the smaller cousin of the sun. It sees and knows everything. It hears the gnashing even as it hears the blessing. The door to the mind should open only from the heart. An enemy who gets in risks the danger of becoming a friend."

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Joy Harjo: Crazy Brave (2013, W. W. Norton & Company)

A budding creative native woman's life woven in dreams and trying circumstances

Crazy Brave is an inspiring and heart-rending journey through Harjo's early childhood and formative years, finding music, theater and poetry as means of expressing her creativity. Her visionary dreams soar through the poetry she wrote throughout the years. She shares painful experiential accounts of the entanglements with deeply troubled men during her formative years with compassion and perspective. Her sage like wisdom and connection with the spirit world are woven like a silver thread through the stories of her life and her people.

Ursula K. Le Guin: The  Dispossessed (Hardcover, 1991, Harper Paperbacks)

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, …

A sci-fi novel that's secretly a social thought experiment, in which Le Guin imagines a planetary culture modeled on perfect anarchic communalism, it's shining points and it's drawbacks, and a capitalistic imperialist culture from which it emerged many year ago, from the protagonist, Shevek's viewpoint. Shevek is a physicist and philosopher with an incredible idea and is torn between worlds and ideals. The highly detailed, analytic and comparative narration is thought provoking and encourages the reader to think critically about their cultural conditionings.