Extant film it is unflinchingly honest

it is unflinchingly honest

"—Los Angeles Times

Many well respected

was forced to leave his Hopi reservation as a child and go to a residential boarding school far away

William Jones

Extant film it is unflinchingly honestThe second poetry collection by award winning author Jenny L. Davis (Chickasaw), Extant confronts the many ways in which Native Americans continue to be associated with the distant past and imagined, even today, as more animal than human. For more than a century, anthropologists, museum guides, and high school teachers have described Native American bodies, cultures, and languages as "endangered" or "almost extinct." Through a combination of blackout