Bad Banana

   how we win - we are going all paper... or pdf... I won't upload the new book WHAT WAS THAT (SLIME MOLD, PARASITES, POISONS, AND POWER) onto amzun or make it into an ebook. NO DIGITAL. I ordered a few proofs... but there will be a pdf soon .  you can request for free: tracelara@pm.me  yeah, free! and you can share it... call it my gift to you for my birthday in a week or so... did you hear about this? this is me    

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ALL available on Bookshop [ https://bookshop.org/shop/BADBANANA ] and yup, Amazon!       COMING SOON!!👇👇👇👇👇 and there's more coming soon: John Christian Hopkins new edition of TWILIGHT OF THE GODS and Trace has a new book WHAT WAS THAT? 

 July 2026

Graham Greene wasn't supposed to make it. A reserve kid from Six Nations who dropped out at 14 and spent 15 years welding steel and laying carpet before he ever stepped on a stage. In 1990, Kevin Costner cast him as Kicking Bird in Dances with Wolves — a role that required him to study Lakota 8 hours a day, 7 days a week, in a language that wasn't his. That performance earned him an Oscar nomination, making him only the second indigenous actor in history nominated for Best Supporting Actor. But Hollywood didn't roll out the red carpet. Directors told him his race disqualified him from roles. Casting directors handed him scripts where he was expected to grunt and look stoic. He told one director about his four dead uncles who served on submarines in the Pacific — and never flinched.  Graham Greene went on to log over 180 film and television credits, from Thunderheart to Die Hard with a Vengeance to The Green Mile to Wind River. He won a Grammy, earned the Order of Canada, ...

TULSA, OK-   by Tim Landes August 4, 2026 Navajo author June Beck reads his story from the Indigenous anthology "From the Heart of our Nations" at 101 Archer on July 31, 2026. Next to Beck are contributing writers Raelee Fourkiller, Hannah L. Henry and A.J. LeBeau. Kashona Notah  Credit: Tim Landes / Tulsa Flyer An audience of more than 100 spent Friday evening time traveling to the year 2276 through the writings of a new generation of Indigenous authors who are featured in a new anthology “From the Heart of Our Nations.” The event, held at 101 Archer, featured a keynote conversation with award-winning author Deborah Jackson Taffa (Kwatsaan/Yuma and Laguna Pueblo), readings by anthology contributors and a book signing in partnership with Magic City Books. Catering was provided by NATV. “From the Heart of Our Nations: An Indigenous Futures Anthology of Short ...

  CBC 7/29/2026 CBC Wed, July 29, 2026 at 4:00 a.m. EDT 4 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Add Yahoo on Google Scott Olsen organized Indigenous Books for Indigenous Kids, with the hopes of getting books from Indigenous authors into the hands of Indigenous students at the high school he teaches at. (Submitted by Scott Olsen - image credit) A high school teacher in greater Edmonton is making sure Indigenous students at his school are seeing themselves reflected on the page.  Scott Olsen, a member of Saddle Lake Cree Nation who was raised in Edmonton, launched Indigenous Books for Indigenous Kids after waking up one Sunday morning with a simple thought.  "Man, I think I could do more," he said.  Olsen is a writer and teacher at Memorial Composite High School just outside of Edmonton, attended by students from nearby Paul First Nation. He started reaching out to Indigenous authors for donated books...

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  "Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, also known by her Ojibwe name Bamewawagezhikaquay, (Woman of the Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky), is considered by many to be one of the first Native American literary writers. "She was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.  Her mother, Ozhaguscodaywayquay, also known as 'Susan,' was the daughter of Chief Waubojeeg.  Jane's father, John Johnston, was an Irish fur trader. "Jane Johnston married Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, a geographer, geologist, ethnologist, and Indian agent. He encouraged her to write and likely influenced those writings." Michigan Women Forward , a nonprofit organization dedicated to the economic empowerment of women and minorities, digs deeper into Schoolcraft's rich history: Schoolcraft (1800 – 1842) is considered by literary scholars and historians to be the first known Native American writer. The granddaughter of the revered Ojibwe chief Waubojeeg, she began as early as ...