Welcome to Litsy!

A poignant memoir of growing up in poverty on the reservation.

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Danielle, your parcel arrived! I love the recipes - I‘ve always wondered exactly what a “pot roast” is, now I can cook one myself😀 and the noodle salad sounds yum😋 The book is beautiful and I‘m delighted with all the lovely extras you included. Thank you so much for all of it and for being such a generous swap partner.😘
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Winner of the American Indian Youth Literature Award for Best YA Book. A moving memoir in verse format about growing up in poverty on a Haudenosaunee reservation. His mother was Onondaga, his mostly absent father was Tuscarora. The effects of systemic racism are clear. Popular culture—Batman, Star Wars, the Beatles & other music—shape Gansworth‘s coming of age as an artistic gay man. Excellent audiobook, read by the author. #Indigenous #LGBTQ

Before I was born, Haudenosaunee communities grew tired of anthropologists and ethnographers. They told us they were helping us preserve our cultures, but we said we were just fine.
Two opposite statements.
Could they both be true?

I am maybe just one more grandchild she can‘t quite place, in the onslaught of young Indians in her family line, reproducing, delivering new generations of feet to cross that bridge on Treaty Day, confirming that the chain of DNA, however it resequences itself in variation, that we are still here, still standing, still walking, one resilient step at a time.

Memoir-ish about a Native American guy, growing up and identity. Poetic.