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TCJ Student Launches New Creative Writing Column Featuring Brianna Reed
May 4, 2021
Tribal College Journal is launching a new creative writing column featuring award-winning student author Brianna Reed of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). The first of its kind, the new bi-monthly column will showcase Reed’s rising talent as she continues to break boundaries and explore new horizons through her flash fiction and creative non-fiction.
Reed is Navajo and a second-year student at IAIA. Her creative column will be called “Moccasin Millennial: Candid Creations of life as a Burqueño.” Known for her bold, gritty, unflinching, yet honest writing, Reed will focus on stories about home and life in the urban wilds of Albuquerque, New Mexico, as she delves into the heartbreak and inspiration of everyday Burqueños.
Tribal College Journal has announced that Mickki Garrity of Northwest Indian College (NWIC) will serve as the next blogger at TCJStudent.org. Her new bi-monthly blog, “Displaced Native,” will explore the process of decolonization and her experiences as a displaced Native woman and non-traditional student who returned to school at a tribal college.
Garrity is enrolled in the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma and lives near the shores of the Pacific Ocean in northern Oregon. She’s currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Native environmental science at NWIC. She enjoys spending her free time walking in the woods and “puttering in the kitchen.” Garrity is a Cobell Scholar and a Doris Duke Conservation Scholar.
Untitled by Bryson Meyers of the Institute of American Indian Arts
“Maybe when the people have outdone themselves, then maybe, the stars will fall upon the land, or drops of hot water will rain upon the Earth. Or the land will turn under. Or our father, the Sun, will not rise to start the day. Then our possessions will turn into beasts and devour us whole. If not, there will be an odor of gases, which will fill the air we breathe, and the end for us shall come. But the people will bring upon themselves what they receive.” a Zuni prophecy