Eating Fire, Tasting Blood / (Action Item on Cuban Five on NLG site)

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From: Heidi Boghosian

Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:15 PM

Subject: Action Item on Cuban Five on NLG site

We encourage all NLG chapters and members to considering writing op-ed pieces or letters to the editor drawing attention to the case of the Cuban Five whenever something about Cuba appears in the press. We've added an action item on the left-hand side of the Guild's website (nlg.org), with two sample letters. More will be added, as will more information about the case (speeches, articles by NLG members and so forth). Please share with us anything that you have written on this case so that we can build this action corner. (We don't like to add such items ad-hoc to the front page, and the location of this is subject to change after we find the best spot for it).

 

But the past few weeks, and next week, are dedicated to raising awareness of this case, and we'd like to make sure that as many Guild members are also made aware of the blatant injustices dealt these five men, all because of our country's repressive policies toward Cuban.

 

Send us your sample letters, or writings!  Thank you!

 

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courtesy on-line Barnes & Noble

 

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More About Eating Fire, Tasting Blood

Product Details

• ISBN: 1560258381
  ISBN-13: 9781560258384
• Format: Paperback, 406pp
• Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
• Sales Rank: 146,383

From the Publisher

As you walk out of your front door tomorrow morning, look down. Look to your left and to your right. Touch the earth: the concrete, the sidewalk, or whatever surrounds you. Undoubtedly you will be touching the layered coverings of the remains of indigenous peoples. Not arrowheads, not broken pieces of pottery - but the very DNA of the first peoples of this continent.

For five centuries - from Columbus's arrival in 1492 to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s, to the renewed assault in the 1970s - our continent's indigenous people endured the most massive and systematic act of genocide in the history of the world.

In Eating Fire, Tasting Blood, twenty established and up-and-coming American Indian writers from disparate nations and tribes offer stirring reflections on the history of their people. This is not a collection of essays about Native Americans but rather a collection BY Native Americans - the story of native holocaust on a tribe-by-tribe level as told by those few who have been fortunate enough to survive. Included are original essays by Vine Deloria Jr., Paula Gunn Allen, Linda Hogan, and Eduardo Galeano.

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DC,Between the Lines Reviews (theazureflutterby@yahoo.com), freelance publicist, 09/14/2006

THE TRAIL STILL WALKED

To tell the story, the real story, who better then the current generation of Native American writers. With Marijo Moore as a contributor and editor of Eating Fire, Tasting Blood she has gathered the essays and poems of her peers to tell us what we were never told in school. With specific references to tribal nations like the Conoy, that are gone but not forgotten and accounts of massacres like Sand Creek and Wounded Knee, these writers bring us up to date and put forth the message that there was a holocaust here too, it just gets no recognition in books or on film. This anthology hopes to change all of that. With the details brought front and center there is no turning away from what was covered up, taken and not returned, and is still being perpetrated on the survivors. To balance these accounts Moore has included tales of children going back home to learn where they came from, and poems that tantalize the mind and make the spirit soar. The accomplishment of bringing the likes of Paula Gunn Allen, Vine Deloria, Jr., and Eduardo Galeano in one volume is to say the least, incredible. Read it and learn about the trail, still being walked today.

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