Drew Hayden Taylor
Born
Curve Lake First Nations, Canada
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Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
12 editions
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2010
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The Night Wanderer
6 editions
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2007
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Take Us To Your Chief And Other Stories
3 editions
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2016
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Chasing Painted Horses
4 editions
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2019
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Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth
3 editions
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1998
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Dead White Writer on the Floor
7 editions
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2011
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The Night Wanderer: A Graphic Novel
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Me Funny
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2006
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Cottagers and Indians
3 editions
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2019
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Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality
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4 editions
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2008
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“The thunderbirds, like dinosaurs, were now creatures of the past: lost long ago, with the coming of disease and famine brought by hairy strangers. Except, in today’s world dinosaurs were celebrated by palaeontologists and thunderbirds by cultural anthropologists. But John still remembered them, those magnificent creatures. (...) They, like the man on the motorcycle, had been born in an age when gods, monsters, humans and animals ate at the same table. Now man ate alone, while animals begged for scraps. The others were unable to survive in the new times and had disappeared into the folds of time. Who knew gods and monsters could and did fall victim to evolution?”
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“He sounded like a lot of the youth in our community, stuck between the past and the future. The true goal is finding enough of both to make your life worth living.”
― Take Us To Your Chief And Other Stories
― Take Us To Your Chief And Other Stories
“First Nations and science fiction don't usually go together. In fact, they could be considered rather unusual topics to mention in the same sentence, much like fish and bicycles.... To me, sci-fi was a world of possibilities. As a fan of writing, why shouldn't my fascination extend to such unconventional works? It was still writing, still literature in all its glory, but here they used different tools to explore the human condition, be they aliens, advanced technology, or other such novel approaches.... I wanted to take traditional (a buzzword in the Native community) science-fiction characteristics and filter them through an Aboriginal consciousness.”
― Take Us To Your Chief And Other Stories
― Take Us To Your Chief And Other Stories
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