The Dreamcatcher in the Wry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Midge, Tiffany.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian women authors--Anecdotes.

Indian women authors.

American literature--Indian authors.

American literature.

Indian wit and humor.

Genre:

Essays.

Humor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2024.

Summary:

Tiffany Midge's hilarious and biting collection of essays, written during the COVID-19 pandemic, brims with satiric insight from a Native American perspective. The Dreamcatcher in the Wry entertains while it informs, gleaning wisdom from the incongruities of everyday life and turning over the colonizer's society and culture for some good old Native American roasting.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Foreword by Devon Mihesuah

I. Moscow/Pullman Daily News Columns

1: The Dreamcatcher in the Wry

2: I Am Not a Cat: America's Funniest Housecat Videos

3: What's Schadenfreude Got to Do with It?

4: Ramona Quimby was My First Literary Hero

5: Bitter Homes and Gardens and Decolonizing My Diet

6: Happy Darth Vader Day: Resolving and Letting Go of the Past

7: Madame Secretary in the Cabinet

8: Get Out of the Rut and Into the Groove

9: The Native Americans Used EVERY Part of the Sacred Turkey

10: Going Against the Grain Isn't Always a Bad Thing

11: The Goldilocks List: Cold Spots in Moscow

12: My Dakota/Lakota Grandparents Pray for Ukraine

13: Holding Space for Joy in the New Year

14: Don't Look Back, Maybe, I Guess?

15: Is "Native American" Politically Correct?

16: Changing Spaces

17: Heart of the Diamond

18: Poetry Matters

19: Office Supplies Provide Link to the Past

20: Opening Cans During These Perilous Times

21: Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Rick Santorum's Anti-Indigenous Statements

22: Scene from a Clinic's Waiting Room: A Cautionary Tale

23: Some Pig in a Brave New World

24: Waist-Deep in Crocodiles: We Can't Afford to be Cavalier About Mask Mandates

25: The Holiday Dinner Basket

26: Things That Don't Make Sense but Should

27: Agape Actually: Celebrating Valentine's Day in Quarantine

28: I Had COVID-19 and Spent the Week in the Hospital

II. High Country News, Heard Around the West: Mishaps and Mayhem from Around the Region

29: Free Bird, Lost-and-Found Bear, and Cowboy Pride, February 2022

30: Odd Twins, Rescue by Owl, and Dinosaur IPA, March 2022

31: Hungry, Habituated Bears, Viral Pirates, and Truffle Snuffers, April 2022

32: A Terrible Lighthouse, Swift Treasure Hunters, and a Paranormal Ghost, May 2022

33: Idiot Invasion, Outhouse Fail, and Rim-to-Rim Rule Rupture, June 2022

34: Out-Of-This-World Fest, Territorial Disputes, and Bear-Family Affairs, July 2022

35: Fish at Heart, Man as Island, and Port-a-Potty Convo, August 2022

36: Irked Sea Lions and a Strange Peanut Pusher, September 2022

37: Not-Murder Hornets, Sentient Chatbots and an AirBearNBear, October 2022

38: Gnarly Weddings, Arachnid Entertainment and Gorilla Gifts, November 2022

39: The Road Runner Problem, Hefty Squirrels and Halloween Karens, December 2022

40: Toad Lickers, Bear Wrestlers and Beard Fanciers, January 2023

41: Armed Bot, an HOV Grinch and Bikes for All, February 2023

42: A Little Pickle, a Fireball and an Indigenous Astronaut, March 2023

43: Wienermobiles, Elephant Seals and Mountains of Maggoty Acorns, April 2023

44: Good Drones, Coyote Living and a Cow-Chip Lottery, May 2023

45: Ferry Felines, Ornithopters and Tokitae Going Home at Last! June 2023

46: Baby Bears, White Whales and 'Freaky-Looking Fanged Fish,' July 2023

47: Orcas, Insects and Other Roadside Attractions, August 2023

48: Bathroom Bison, Foul Smelling Flowers and Outlaw Otters on the Lam, September 2023

49: Backscratching Bears, Seismic Singers and Happy Birthday to Herman the Sturgeon, October 2023

50: Too Many Snakes, A Hard-Rockin' Dog and a GPS Truck-Up, November 2023

51: Sagebrush Sasquatch, Irritable Elk and Spiders that Aren't from Mars, December 2023

52: Beautiful Bats, Big Boulders and a Seven-Armed Octopus, January 2024

III. Bonus Slices and Outtakes with Extra Cheese

53: In the Good Way: Looking at Tribal Humor

54: Beets

55. Once Upon a Virus in Hollywood

56. How to Scream Inside Your Heart

57. American (Indian) Dirt

58. Fifty Shades of Buckskin: Satire as a Decolonizing Tool

59. Missing Oregon Senators Shape-Shift into Wild Horses

60. An Open Letter of Apology to Native Americans from One of the Covington Catholic School Students

61. Westworld's Dolores Abernathy Steps in for Betsy DeVos in "60 Minutes" Interview

62. Tourist Tossed Like a Caesar Salad by Free Range Emo-Goth in Yellowstone National Park, Shits Pants

63. Groundbreaking Research Finds Legendary Hunkpapa Leader Sitting Bull to be Pretendian

64. Take a Page From Me, Elizabeth Warren, and Celebrate Your Quaint Family Lore

65. Sole Non-Indigenous Person Has No Opinion Whatsoever about Senator Warren's Spit Test

66. Mount Rushmore is Trending and Somehow it Doesn't Occur to Anyone that it's a Desecration of a Sacred Place and a Monument to White Supremacy and Genocide

67. Field Guide to Southwestern Native American Women

68. Gen. George Armstrong Custer's Desktop in Hell

69. How to be Funny Tips

70. Considering Idolatry, Iron Eyes Cody and Bluffy Sainte-Marie

71. Reductress Headlines for Native Women

72. Typical Schedule for Native American

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781496242129

1496242122

9781496242136

1496242130

OCLC:

1467874803