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I am rereading Pointing with Lips!  If you have not read it, grab a copy TODAY!... Trace Here is a review: Transmotion Vol 1, No 1 (2015) Lone Hill, Dana. Pointing with Lips: A Week in the Life of a Rez Chick . Greenfield: Blue Hand Books, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-4959-4529-8. 326 pp. https://www.createspace.com/4670234?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026 Humor. There is much one can say about this important first novel by Dana Lone Hill, Pointing with Lips: A Week in the Life of a Rez Chick , but humor is at the forefront of her work.  On nearly every page there is something to make the reader smile, chuckle, or tear up with laughter.  To be sure there are serious issues dealt with in the novel, but humor sustains the reader through the work, as humor sustained the author growing up on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the setting for Pointing with Lips .  In Custer Died for Your Sins , Vine Deloria , Jr. argues, "One of the best ways to understand a people is to know w...

It is bittersweet to leave the reservation. The home you are so familiar with You see news from home and feel guilt by association It is the only place you have ever known That has been the one place you can call home There is that feeling when you leave It is for the best you want to believe You hope that is what others perceive You don’t want to be that “City Indian” That feels guilt within But then you see your friends dying You see their grandmothers crying You see tribal council talking in circles They wear their Indian print shirts and get real verbal Break promises like the government taught them Talk about what can’t be done instead of what can Yes, you feel guilty when you leave the reservation But go child, and get that education Because the only way you can help your people Is when you learn to fly like an eagle Home will always be there Waiting for those who care Go child, do what you have to do Generations depend on you Your ancestors are proud o...

  Dana Lou Lone Hill  Oyate WačhíŋyAŋpi (age 47) February 29, 1972 ~ November 15, 2019 (her obituary is on her author page) An Inspiring Lakota Writer, Activist her writing for the Lakota Country Times Dana Lone Hill, Oyate WačhíŋyAŋpi was a dedicated Native woman, mother, writer and activist with a family history full of notable Lakota people on both sides of her parentage. Dana can rest assured that her place in her tribe, the Oglala Lakota, is undisputable. On her mother’s side, she is the granddaughter of Susie Shot In The Eye, noted for walking back from Canada to be with her people and for being one of the most recognized Women Warriors, having fought in the Battle at Greasy Grass. GUARDIAN ARTICLES She fought valiantly alongside her sons Rock, Lone Hill and High Wolf along with her husband Shot In the Eye. On her paternal side, her grandfather is Lone Elk who was later named Caesar and his wife Mattie Shields. Lone Elk is noted for bein...