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  • Gritty Conversational: A Contemporary Native American Voice to Combat Erasure

    So I was sitting in a classroom at the University of Oklahoma. This was about a decade ago. I was in my master’s program and it was a special topics course on heteronormativity in American culture. We were discussing James Baldwin’s work, and the professor said, “I love Baldwin’s writing and I don’t know how […]

    Oscar Hokeah

    June 7, 2021
    The Rewrite Life
    Art, Blog, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, life, Nature, Poetry, Politics, Religion
  • The Aftermath of the Final Draft: Novels

    So I’m about to use this post as catharsis. I’ve done something tremendous. So momentous that it’s a little unsettling. Or maybe I’ve made it unsettling by overthinking. But I can’t help but wonder if this is a normal part of the process once a writer has submitted the final draft of her novel to […]

    Oscar Hokeah

    June 3, 2021
    Unsettled Between
    Art, Blog, Book Reviews, Books, Education, Family, Fiction, life, Nature, Poetry
  • Self-Imposed Crippling Frustration Under a Wave of Social Justice Advocacy

    It was Saturday night when I knew I’d smudge myself and my house with sage the next day. There had been a build up. With the media exposure of police shootings and the new energy for social justice as a response, I was caught up in the energy. But not without personal justification. Under Trump’s […]

    Oscar Hokeah

    September 14, 2020
    Bitter Sweet Brain Juice
    Art, Books, Culture, Education, Family, life, Nature, Poetry, Politics, Religion
  • Giving Back: Murrow Indian Children’s Home Needing Assistance

    I get mentally stuck sometimes, and frustrated, when I think of the disparity rates in the communities I serve. I’m Cherokee and Kiowa. I live in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and work for Indian Child Welfare. I’ve worked my entire career serving Native communities, working diligently to correct the disparity rates, and every time I see a […]

    Oscar Hokeah

    August 26, 2020
    The Heap
    Art, Blog, Books, Culture, Education, life, Nature, Poetry, Politics, Religion
  • Indian Child Welfare Novel: Lessons in Cooking Coded Cake

    If you’re getting silenced, or an attempted silence, as an artist/writer this is a sign you’re doing something right.  The ACLU has extensive documentation about the rights of artists to speak our minds and advocate for communities.  Intimidation tactics from white supremacists didn’t stop me from writing my first novel, UNSETTLED BETWEEN, and they won’t […]

    Oscar Hokeah

    August 12, 2020
    Loaded and Decoded
    Art, Book Reviews, Books, Education, life, Nature, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Writing
  • Mexican Indian: The Shifting Indigenous Identity of Turtle Island

    Call it evolution or enlightenment. Our perspective is broadening. Where we once only had the capacity to see ourselves in strict hyper local terms, now we can access the universal. In fact, both the universal and the hyper local are needed as checks and balances. In the narrow reaches of our identity, people are quick […]

    Oscar Hokeah

    August 4, 2020
    Original Instructions
    Art, Books, Culture, Education, Family, life, Nature, Poetry, Politics, Religion
  • For Literary Eyes Only: Budding Archetypes for the Native American Literary Tradition

    I’m open minded and enjoy talking to people about their Native ancestry.  Folks get comfortable with me when they know I’m not going to judge them for admiring Native people, so they share their family lore.  If they’re writers, they’ll likely mention a project they’re working on where they have characters who are Native.  Out […]

    Oscar Hokeah

    March 2, 2020
    The Rewrite Life
    Art, Book Reviews, Books, Culture, Education, Fiction, life, Poetry, Politics, Religion
  • Being In’din’s a Party and Everyone’s Invited

    Sometimes I like to say controversial things, like the title to this article: “Being In’din’s a party and everyone’s invited.”  The stodgy conservative Native crowd gets upset with me.  I hear comments like, “You’re undermining sovereignty,” or “Don’t give the wannabes more fuel to misappropriate.”  All this is said with a fervor of control and […]

    Oscar Hokeah

    February 20, 2020
    Original Instructions
    Art, Books, Education, Family, Fiction, life, Nature, Poetry, Politics, Religion
  • The 12 Year Journey of Unsettled Between

    I spend a lot of time thinking about love, and what I’m about to discuss here is in the vein of love.  But a love for cohesiveness, a love that desires modalities in cooperation rather than competition.  Certainly, it took the very pessimistic concepts around Baudrillard’s philosophy to engender my thoughts on this subject.  But […]

    Oscar Hokeah

    February 12, 2020
    The Rewrite Life
    Art, Book Reviews, Books, Culture, Education, Family, Fiction, life, Nature, Poetry
  • A Call to Gurus

    This article is a confession to my gurus.  Well, maybe more of an apology.  Or a humble request for forgiveness.  Okay, it’s a mixture of all three.  Sometimes I can be an asshole.  More so when I was younger and before life kicked my sorry brown ass into submission.  People say they love writers who […]

    Oscar Hokeah

    February 5, 2020
    Sitting on the Stone
    Art, Book Reviews, Books, Culture, Education, Fiction, life, Poetry, Politics, Religion
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