Early Indigenous Literatures

Scattered

Pokagon denotes the violent rupture of settler colonialism that challenges this temporal continuity between past and future. Still referring to settler colonialism as a storm, he writes that “the storm unsatisfied on land swept our lakes and streams, while before its clouds of hooks, nets, and glistening spears the fish vanished from our waters like the morning dew before the rising sun. Thus our inheritance was cut off, and we were driven and scattered as sheep before the wolves” (5).

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