Cradle Will Capsize

Posted by on June 29, 2011 · 2 Comments 

image of baby in knitted cradle, hanging precariously from a tree limb

Did you know “Rock-​​a-​​bye Baby” was a Native Amer­i­can song? Not only was the song poorly trans­lated, but lacks a few crit­i­cal details of the orig­i­nal, and all its atten­dant cul­tural sym­bol­ism. Damn it, Puri­tans. Again, with the bed of lies.

Category Appropriation, Indigenous Issues, Music · Tags , ,

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I’m writ­ing a book to under­stand my hometown’s dis­in­ter­est in its own his­tory, and my role in that. It’s sort of become a novel. This is the full story.

This is my play­ground. It reflects and pre­dicts what’s hap­pen­ing in the book.

Things I dis­cuss: East­ern Mass. his­tory, sto­ry­telling, book­mak­ing, time travel, poetry & nov­els, writ­ing craft, dreams, pub­lish­ing, indige­nous per­spec­tives, spir­i­tu­al­ity, sex, adop­tion and par­ent­ing, research, and what­ever I can’t get outta my head.