We are thrilled to let you know that Biography 39.3, “Indigenous Conversations about Biography,” guest edited by the amazing Alice Te Punga Somerville, Daniel Heath Justice, and Noelani Arista, is officially available on ProjectMuse! This gorgeous issue includes:
—an Editors’ Introduction by Alice Te Punga Somerville and Daniel Heath Justice
—K. Tsianina Lomawaima’s “A Principle of Relativity through Indigenous Biography” with responses by Natalie Harkin and David A. Chang
—Elle-Máijá Apiniskim Tailfeathers’s “A Conversation with Helen Haig-Brown, Lisa Jackson, and Elle-Máijá Apiniskim Tailfeathers, with Some Thoughts to Frame the Conversation” with responses by Mārata Ketekiri Tamaira and Dustin Tahmahkera
—Warren Cariou’s “Life-Telling: Indigenous Oral Autobiography and the Performance of Relation” with responses by Nēpia Mahuika and Peter Minter
—Arini Loader’s “‘Kei Wareware’: Remembering Te Rauparaha” with responses by Mary Jane Logan McCallum and Alyssa Mt. Pleasant
—Deborah A. Miranda’s “‘They were tough, those old women before us’: The Power of Gossip in Isabel Meadows’s Narratives” with responses by Leah Lui-Chivizhe and Tina Makereti
—Shino Konishi’s “Making Connections and Attachments: Writing the Lives of Two Nineteenth-Century Aboriginal Men” with responses by Ashley Glassburn Falzetti and Joseph M. Pierce
—Ngarino Ellis’s “Te Ao Hurihuri O Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho: The Evolving Worlds of Our Ancestral Treasures” with responses by Cresantia Frances Koya Vaka‘uta and Chadwick Allen
—Jordan Wilson’s “Gathered Together: Listening to Musqueam Lived Experiences” with responses by Crystal McKinnon and Hōkūlani K. Aikau