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Toni Jensen. Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land. Ballantine Books, 2020. 304 pp. ISBN: 9781984821188.   https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608247/carry - by - toni - jensen/   Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen is a poetic and creative memoir about a present - day Métis woman’s life as she moves across the US for her academic pursuits . Jensen uncovers historical place - based revelations to show that these mundane places are not always what they seem , nor are they as simple as the words on a sign describe. In fact, these places carry a broken story that , if truly confronted by the visitors and inhabitants of these places, they would undoubtedly awaken to the historical and continued violence across the US.   Jensen shows how people living in the same place do not all share the same story . S he exposes how Indigenous stories have largely been erased in an effort to favor a more desirable story of Amer...

 LINKS in story: Aimée Craft Reviews Fletcher’s “Ghost Road” in Transmotion Journal December 21, 2021 | Matthew L.M. Fletcher Here is the review in PDF and HTML .  Transmotion volume 7 , issue 2 on Indigeneity and the Anthropocene can be found online here . Professor Craft’s most recent book, “Treaty Words: For Longs as the Rivers Flow” ( Annick Press ), can be purchased at Strong Nations and Birchbark Books .   The Ghost Road: Anishinaabe Responses to Indian Hating by Matthew L.M. Fletcher