Extant film "Now is the time for

"Now is the time for us to tell our stories before they are written for us by anthropologists

was forced to leave his Hopi reservation as a child and go to a residential boarding school far away

Diné student artists and writers returned home through their creative works by evoking senses of Diné Bikéyah and the kinship that defined home for them

Many well respected

then Missouri

Extant film "Now is the time forThe second poetry collection by award winning author Jenny L. Davis (Chickasaw), Extant confronts the many ways in which Native Americans continue to be associated with the distant past and imagined, even today, as more animal than human. For more than a century, anthropologists, museum guides, and high school teachers have described Native American bodies, cultures, and languages as "endangered" or "almost extinct." Through a combination of blackout