As a child growing up in rural Oklahoma, Donald Fixico often heard
""hvmakimata"" - ""that's what they used to say"" - a phrase
Mvskoke Creeks and Seminoles use to end stories. In his latest
work, Fixico, who is Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Mvskoke Creek, and
Seminole, invites readers into his own oral tradition to learn how
storytelling, legends and prophecies, and oral histories and
creation myths knit together to explain the Indian world.
Interweaving the storytelling and traditions of his ancestors,
Fixico conveys the richness and importance of oral culture in
Native communities and demonstrates the power of the spoken word to
bring past and present together, creating a shared reality both
immediate and historical for Native peoples. Fixico's stories
conjure war heroes and ghosts, inspire fear and laughter, explain
the past, and foresee the future - and through them he skillfully
connects personal, familial, tribal, and Native history. Oral
tradition, Fixico affirms, at once reflects and creates the unique
internal reality of each Native community. Stories possess
spiritual energy, and by summoning this energy, storytellers bring
their communities together. Sharing these stories, and the larger
story of where they come from and how they work, ""That's What They
Used to Say"" offers readers rare insight into the oral traditions
at the very heart of Native cultures, in all of their rich and
infinitely complex permutations.
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