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Take Us to Your Chief: And Other Stories

✍ Scribed by Taylor, Drew Hayden

Book ID: 109290799
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Year: 2016
Tongue: en-CA
Weight: 128 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781771621311

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A forgotten Haudenosaunee social song beams into the cosmos like a homing beacon for interstellar visitors. A computer learns to feel sadness and grief from the history of atrocities committed against First Nations. A young Native man discovers the secret to time travel in ancient petroglyphs. Drawing inspiration from science fiction legends like Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury, Drew Hayden Taylor frames classic science-fiction tropes in an Aboriginal perspective.
The nine stories in this collection span all traditional topics of science fiction--from peaceful aliens to hostile invaders; from space travel to time travel; from government conspiracies to connections across generations. Yet Taylor's First Nations perspective draws fresh parallels, likening the cultural implications of alien contact to those of the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, or highlighting the impossibility of remaining a "good Native" in such an unnatural situation as a space...

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