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Giving Back: Murrow Indian Children’s Home Needing Assistance

on August 26, 2020September 9, 2020 By Oscar Hokeah 8 Comments

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 [...]

Indian Child Welfare Novel: Lessons in Cooking Coded Cake

on August 12, 2020September 10, 2020 By Oscar Hokeah 7 Comments

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 [...]

Mexican Indian: The Shifting Indigenous Identity of Turtle Island

on August 4, 2020September 9, 2020 By Oscar Hokeah 10 Comments

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 [...]

Being In’din’s a Party and Everyone’s Invited

on February 20, 2020September 9, 2020 By Oscar Hokeah 5 Comments

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 [...]

The 12 Year Journey of Unsettled Between

on February 12, 2020September 9, 2020 By Oscar Hokeah 10 Comments

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 [...]

How to Smudge with Sage & Native American Customs for Prayer

on February 1, 2020September 9, 2020 By Oscar Hokeah 2 Comments

I've had several people inquire about practices and customs associated with smudging.  I decided to cleanse myself today so I thought I'd make a short video on rituals I've learned over the years.  This is by no means anything dogmatic.  These are just methods that I've learned over the years.  I'm Kiowa and Cherokee, and [...]

#WritersLife: When Writers Dream of Characters in Their Novel

on January 18, 2020September 9, 2020 By Oscar Hokeah 17 Comments

#WritersLife was the first thought I had when I woke.  But I couldn't shake the deep depression taking control of me.  I felt an immense sadness.  It felt like I was so inadequate that I didn't matter to anyone.  My life was so pointless and meaningless that no one would ever want to connect with [...]

How Academia Disrupts Native Progress by Reinventing “The Pristine Myth”

on November 21, 2019September 9, 2020 By Oscar Hokeah 13 Comments

Someone tells you, "There's nobody on that piece of land," and you're invited to stake a claim to it, build a home, move your family, and grow crops.  Start a new life for yourself.  That was the narrative fed to early European settlers and is commonly referred to as "The Pristine Myth," meaning the wilderness [...]

On Writing an “Indian Child Welfare” Novel & Other Grand Adventures

on October 21, 2019September 9, 2020 By Oscar Hokeah 4 Comments

I hiked into the Grand Canyon.  I must've been in my late twenties, maybe early thirties.  It started out as a walk to look over the rim.  I had camped the night before in a tent at one of the sites and woke early (probably about 5am).  I was there with a friend and she [...]

Underground Matriarchy: #WIP Debut Novel “Unsettled Between”

on September 26, 2019September 9, 2020 By Oscar Hokeah 6 Comments

We've heard the reified stories of men brutalizing men.  A rehearsal of patriarchy.   In fact, hyper masculine bullshit permeates our lives.  We see in the media, if not in our daily lives, the ramifications of patriarchy unchecked.  So what's the answer?  Men are being called out now more than ever and violence continues.  Wars haven't [...]

Story Like Bonsai are Reborn through Deadlines & Transformations

on September 18, 2019September 9, 2020 By Oscar Hokeah 16 Comments

Like clipping and pruning back branches on a bonsai tree.  Then we wire and train those branches to spread in the appearance of organic design reflective of the natural environment, taking careful consideration and steady hands.  We have to make the right decisions.  I've been revising Unsettled Between over the last two months and it's [...]

Solidarity Outside Sovereignty: New Tribal Politics Multiply & Strengthen Beyond Colonial Boundaries

on July 29, 2019September 9, 2020 By Oscar Hokeah 8 Comments

What I'm about to say is going to rub a lot of people the wrong way, especially an older generation who built their identity on the backs of a sovereignty based in contention between governments.  But ultimately a shift occurred while many were sleeping, and this wasn't something the younger generation brought about.  We were [...]

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