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American academic and author

Grace L. Dillon is an academic and author who is of Anishinaabe and European descent. She is a professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies Program, in the School of Gender, Race, and Nations at Portland State University. She edited Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction and coined the term Indigenous Futurisms.

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Recurring elements in alternative Native stories include the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, the Battle of Little Big Horn and Custer's demise (1876), the Ghost Dances after the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890 (albeit many forms of Ghost Dances occurred historically prior to Wounded Knee), and the Oka uprisings of the 1990s at Kahnesatake. The Ghost Dance may be the most widespread image connected to Native Apocalypse

Ultimately we want to share knowledge, not in a way that's stolen and appropriated and misused, but in a way that is a sharing and exchange of ideas that will actually help us get to a point where we don't have to worry about, you know, needing to head off to another planet in order to live.

Walking the Clouds returns us to ourselves by encouraging Native writers to write about Native conditions in Native-centered worlds liberated by the imagination.