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Peeling away stereotypes with knife-sharp images, Elizabeth
Schultz's collection of poems opens up the Kansas landscape to
reveal astonishing complexities and subtleties. These poems dazzle
the senses, breathing life not only into plants and animals, but
also into seasons and the sky. For readers familiar with America's
heartland as well as for those unfamiliar with it, THE SAUNTERING
EYE becomes a necessary guide to seeing more fully and more deeply,
to envisioning this and other landscapes as myriad-layered,
connected to the remote past as well as to a perplexing future.
The White-Skin Deer: Hoopa Stories follows the Mammoth Publication
mission of recovering histories. It is a first-hand, fictionalized
account of tribal elders' stories, written by a sincere and
respectful non-Native woman, Elizabeth Schultz. Schultz wrote these
stories based on her experiences living on the Hoopa Valley Tribe's
land during the 1950s. This was a time period when Bureau of Indian
Affairs policies of assimilation were at their height. Their
boarding elementary and high schools actively worked against Native
cultural practices, including Native language, ceremonies, economic
systems, and kinship responsibilities. Like all good fiction, these
stories prompt reflection. Embedded within them are the conflicts
facing most American tribal peoples at that time.
In the aftermath of the Pacific War and Japan's capitulation, Mrs
Yumi Goto and her family lived in the small community of Muramatsu,
where they had relocated to get away from Tokyo. Yumi Goto was an
English speaking graduate of one of Japan's top universities for
women, and when a contingent of American soldiers was sent to
Muramatsu as a garrison force, she became an interpreter. The
sudden influx of more than 1,800 Americans into a rural Japanese
community was potentially traumatic, and their imminent arrival
made the townspeople "depressed and fearful". To everyone's
surprise, they found the soldiers to be "open-hearted and humane",
and the two sides coexisted peacefully. Those Days in Muramatsu is
a testimony to the capacity of ordinary people from vastly
different backgrounds to coexist harmoniously, even in the
aftermath of war.
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