Daniel Heath Justice
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Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation is the largest of three Cherokee federally recognized tribes in the United States. It was established in the 20th century, and includes people descended from members of the old Cherokee Nation who relocated voluntarily from the Southeast to Indian Territory and Cherokees who...
and the author of Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History (2006) (University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
The University of Minnesota Press is a university press that is part of the University of Minnesota.Founded in 1925, the University of Minnesota Press is best known for its books in social and cultural thought, critical theory, race and ethnic studies, urbanism, feminist criticism, and media...
) as well as an Indigenous fantasy trilogy, The Way of Thorn & Thunder--Kynship (2005), Wyrwood (2006), and Dreyd (2007)--all published by Kegedonce Press
Kegedonce Press
Kegedonce Press is an Aboriginal publishing house in Neyaashiinigmiing Reserve No. 27 , Ontario, Canada, owned by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm...
. He teaches Aboriginal literatures and other English courses at the University of Toronto.
Justice's critical work has often centered around themes of identity
Identity (social science)
Identity is a term used to describe a person's conception and expression of their individuality or group affiliations . The term is used more specifically in psychology and sociology, and is given a great deal of attention in social psychology...
, authenticity and decolonisation: this has led to his being associated with literary nationalists such as Craig Womack
Craig Womack
Craig Womack is an author and professor of Native American literature. Creek-Cherokee by ancestry, Womack is best known for Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism, a book of literary criticism which argues that the dominant approach to academic study of Native American literature is...
and Jace Weaver. His work is known for accessible and enjoyable prose that discusses difficult issues in an approachable manner.
See also
- List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
- Native American StudiesNative American StudiesNative American Studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the history, culture, politics, issues and contemporary experience of Native peoples in North America, or, taking a hemispheric approach, the Americas...