A mind spread out on the ground
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Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021.
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9781432885397, 1432885391
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - AdultLARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY ELLIOTT, A.On Shelf
Oak Lawn Public Library - Large TypeLARGE TYPE 971.00497 ELLIOTOn Shelf
Tinley Park Public Library Bookmobile - BookmobileLARGE TYPE 970.3092 ELLIOTT, ALICIAOn Shelf

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Published
Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021.
Format
Large Print
Physical Desc
329 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
9781432885397, 1432885391

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"The Mohawk phrase for depression, Wake' nikonhra'kwenhtará:'on, can be roughly translated to 'a mind spread out on the ground.' Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of persona, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced. Elliott's writing details a life spent between Indigenous and white communities, a divide reflected in her own family, and engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, art, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrification, and representation. Throughout, she makes connections between the past and present, the personal and political"--Back cover.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Elliott, A. (2021). A mind spread out on the ground (Large print edition.). Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Elliott, Alicia. 2021. A Mind Spread Out On the Ground. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.

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Elliott, Alicia. A Mind Spread Out On the Ground Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021.

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Elliott, Alicia. A Mind Spread Out On the Ground Large print edition., Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021.

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