The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative (Indigenous Americas)

This is a great book. The author has a splendid sense of humor and is a keen observer of the human condition. The story of the turtles is a simple and humorous rendition of the more serious question physicists grapple with, and that is the issue of containment. For example, if the universe began with a Big Bang, what did it bang into? If it is expanding, what is it expanding into?

This is a wonderful relaxing and soothing read. I purchased this for work on Australian Aboriginal people, but it is American Indian narrations. It is written eloquently and is a book for bedtime reading as it does not tax the brain, but opens up a whole new world view and understanding of 'others' worldview

This was delightful, engaging, deep, funny, painful, perceptive, really good writing. It's memoir, it's essay, it's story, all mixed together, in King's very distinctive voice.

NDN WORD UP! shows how white supremacy has constructed the white mans indjin. From a french materialists feminism perspective King illustrates how First Nations people are made-constructed, into objects for (colonial/settler colonialism, and neo-Liberalsim) consumption, a process of dehumanizing. Dehumanizing presents two additional aspects, as a CRT a mode of cultural radicalized subjugation, and marked for genocide/erasure, as a cost of 'progress.' Intersections: racialized hetero-normative (en)gendering and force feminzion of culture (paternalism/ phallogocentrisim) colonization morphs into urban gentrification, Indigenous slavery, morphs into transatlantic slave trade, Indigenous racialization differs in application to non-native cultural radicalized systems of oppression. white supremacy from the west to eastern europe--eugenics. starts the conversation over oppressive religiosity and 'creation stories.' Presents a perspective into media as a tool of the Nation-State, bio-power necromancy and cultural memetics / social scripting.

The author concentrated on the importance of stories, both oral and written, in Native culture. I think about it and the importance of the stories I tell my grandsons and realize that those stories get passed down, like the story my grandmother told me about feeding the Dalton Brothers when she was at the dugout close to Ames, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) all by herself and not even a teenager. That story will be passed down by my descendants.

I heard this book delivered as lectures in about 2003. Reading it brings the living voice of Thomas King back to life. The lectures are a story of, and a living example of, the human results of European Colonialism. They show, both in their narrative and in their delivery those effects of history that can write themselves into an individual human life beyond all defences.

This book was very good, I bought it for my college English 2010 Class and it's been the most intriguing book I've read during my college years. I would definitely recommend reading this book and I would actually read this in my free time as well. Also the book came in very good condition and It was well worth the money I paid for it.

I am using the text to translate some of his perspectives and compare with the history of the Mexican native peoples. Super important, clear, engaging.

Promptly received and a book worth reading.

Bought it for a class on Indigenous thought and knowledge, and it was really good! King writes in a very personable way, the stories he tells are both personal and cultural, based on a series of lectures he gave. This is definitely an eye-opener. It is definitely something that doesn't offer you a definitive answer, but leaves you thinking with questions moving forward. I believe it arrived fairly quickly, as I had it in time for my class. I think it arrived before the other book for the same class. In perfect condition. Thank you.

The intense and heartwarming nature of Thomas King is unmatched. Along the entire journey of reading I felt myself pulled along a River on knowledge awaiting a revelation, and King didn’t disappoint. A wonderful and necessary read in postcolonial discourse.

I like this book very much, because Thomas King is a great author and knows how to write good stories. He successfully describes how stories influence us in our life. I also love the way he tells creation stories.

An intriguing book, comparing how we imagine the Native Indians of North America and Canada, based on romantic historic and contemporary TV and movies, media, and literature, versus the reality. Thomas King is an erudite and entertaining writer. Not too preachy, but laying out the facts in ways that keep you interested and wanting to know more. I've read one of his novels, 'Indians on Vacation', which is both funny and soul searching, about a trip he and his wife took to Prague.