The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir

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In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the following and, in some ways, less explored question: once the exile returns, then what?

Using the story of Raven and the Box of Daylight (and relating it to Sun Tzu’s equally timeless Art of War) to deepen her narration and reflection, Hayes expresses an ongoing frustration and anger on the obstacles and prejudices still facing Alaska Natives in their very own land, but in addition recounts her own story of attending and completing college in her fifties and becoming a professor and a author. Hayes lyrically weaves together strands of memoir, contemplation, and fiction to articulate an Indigenous worldview through which all things are connected, through which intergenerational trauma creates many hardships but transformation continues to be conceivable. Now a grandmother and thinking very much of the generations who will come after her, Hayes speaks for herself but in addition has powerful things to mention in regards to the resilience and complications of her Native community.

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