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An Unspeakable Past
Roger Echo-Hawk
March 2009
One day my oldest brother gave me some old Pawnee ceremonial corn, white with blue speckles. Walter took to calling it “eagle corn” because the tiny speckles resembled a bird shape. He got it from a seed bank in Kansas – they had obtained it from a Pawnee woman who last grew it long ago, probably before World War II. That corn traveled a long way to enter our family traditions along the Colorado Front Range.
My brother grew this pretty corn in the summer of 1991. The next spring he gave me a perfect ear of it, and I turned it over to my wife Linda. Preparing a little garden of mounds in our back yard, together we planted that Pawnee corn one early Saturday morning in mid-May 1992. Linda and I planted it carefully under the cool vanishing twilight of the morning star.
That speckled corn grew beautifully; unruly stands of shining green leaves soon lengthened into the middle of summer. We watched as Jaxon, one of our cats, made this Pawnee ceremonial corn garden his new special place, guarding the growing plants, napping among the mounds.
Today we have a couple of tall shady trees back there and it’s too sheltered for a corn garden. But in the summer of 1992 it seemed a great place for a little garden.
In the fall, Linda and Jaxo
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The Other Sides of Race
Contents:
Reviewers discuss The Magic Children
In the Radiance Beyond
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From Left Coast Press
The Magic Children:
Racial Identity at the End
of the Age of Race
What are people saying about The Magic Children?
Dr. George R. Price (Lecturer, Native American Studies Departmentand African American Studies Program, University of Montana):
Hello, RogerI just finished reading The Magic Children, and I've gotta tell you, I haven't found this much delight in one book in quite awhile. Not only have I found a rare kindred spirit in the domain of anti-race, but also I now have a book on the fallacy and folly of race that my friends and colleagues in Native American Studies might actually read! I hope that I am not so excited that I am now about to burden you with one of the longest emails you've ever received. I will do my best to restrain myself.
As you well know, there are very few American academics who are willing to fully confront, deconstruct, and abolish the race paradigm – even fewer in Ethnic Studies programs, and practically non-existent in Indian Studies/NAS. As a matter of fact, besides maybe two of my former students, you are the only academic and citizen of an American