NEW book by Ed Little Crow, Lakota/Dakota


Wild Embers 
is proud to announce
 new Fall 2009 titles

by Ed Little Crow Lakota/Dakota veteran of the Seige of Wounded Knee 1973,  member of the Elder's Council in Southern Oregon, father and poet. He is, in his words "a history keeper". 

This collection includes poems, stories and memories from  Little Crow-- a fusion of thoughts about the world as we find it now, the world as he knew it when he was young. "Dreaming"  is a quintessential journey into the borderlands of human survival. Included are his poems from the 1980's and 90's, previously unpublished stories about the American Indian Movement, and commentaries about "being Indian", all transcribed from Little Crow interviews conducted in Ashland, Or. 2006.

order CROW here

writings/art by Robert Mirabal, Tewa, John Nichols (Milagro Beanfield War) and many other Taos, New Mexico writers/artists!

photo by antoinette "self portrait, cochiti spring 09"

antoinette bio
antoinette's blog

request review copy/giveaway
contact emberspress@gmail.com

new titles


la Puerta, Taos an artbook series
release date June 1, 2009

if you contributed to this project
please email watersongs@gmail.com
for your giveaway copy

la puerta review copies available May 1st



Embers title NOW avail:

Amalio Madueno's Lost in the Chamiso
second printing:
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"In Sound Proof Rooms"
dedicated to Anna Mae Aquash (1945-1975/6)

a nEw pIecE
by antoinette nora claypoole

photo: "NW AIM, circa 1972" photographer unknown



"My eyes drift like a death walk.

Back into the heartbeat of a Pacific Northwest audience. An event myself and local activists organized: “Apartheid in America”.

One night that late winter weekend International Treaty Council person Tom LaBlanc brought an 8mm flick up from San Francisco. It was called “Brave Hearted Woman” and there I heard Annie Mae’s name.

Saw her death in the eyes of all of us, like headlights on an Oregon highway which Robert
Robideau still claims “did her in. That November (1975) bust here in Oregon was her death sentence, antoinette”. " read complete piece


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about Aquash murder/upcoming trial
see sidebar







click on graphic to enlarge:

from "The Border Crossing of John Graham"
by antoinette nora claypoole

Journalistic Civil Rights and the Trial of John Graham

antoinette contacted by U.S.Attorney
 her position statement

John Graham Interview




"civil rights of writers are very important in these times of Patriot Act realities. Currently I am stepping into a simple, important process of protecting our rights while adhering to/learning about the new "laws of the land". All this in regards to events in Indian Country, ie the upcoming trial of John Graham, extradited from Canada to the U.S. in Dec. 2007 for the murder of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash. I believe media rights will be part of our new landscape...a textured fight or a raging river, undammed. EIther way, we'll witness and create like emdangered osprey in the reeds of summer's heat..." (more, click here)


peace
antoinette


top photo: "self-portrait, desert spring" 3.08
AIM graphic donated by Robert Robideau from Peltier files: "John Trudell in protest"





...poetry a lifeboat dropped from her. titanic. "



the lost works of Louise Bryant
a work in progress

"collecting voices was her passion.

BrAnD NeW
by antoinette










The Watersongs Project
compiling the lost works of
Louise Bryant (1885-1936)


"He would tell me the water was full of songs"
--Louise Bryant about Jack Reed
circa Oct. 1920













from a new piece
b y an toinette nora claypoole

“I would say that John Graham has seen the last of his days in Canada. Justice will have arrived at its half way mark when his trial is concluded.” --Robert Robideau, Anishanabe (Turtle Mountain and White Earth)


"....Like small pox in blankets in acts of genocide, boarding schools are where John Graham and his sisters were sent. In Canada. Not unlike anything happening in the States. During the 1950s and 60’s. And then the Bellecourt brothers and Dennis Banks emerge and create a movement-- AIM. John Graham found his way into the scene while looking for his lost sister. “She was sent to the states somewhere. Taken from our family” he explained to some of us. That chilled night in Vancouver, B.C. while awaiting the first of many verdicts regarding his extradition to the United States.

Graham found his sister. In the mid 1970's.

And then. He met Anne Mae Pictou Aquash (1945-1975/6?). And on the night of Dec. 6, 2007 in a caper more like a drug deal by Yale drop-out rookies, John Graham was “smuggled” over the Canadian border and handed over to U.S Marshalls. Like a Sitting Bull saga gone bad. Sent to the States on a charge of the murder of Anna Mae. .."

from..." The Border Crossing of John Graham"
http://www.heyokamagazine.com/HEYOKA.10.JohnGraham.1.htm


John LeKay's interview with
antoinette nora claypoole

antoinette's first book
about Anne Mae Aquash click here
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