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Lou Cornum

Lou Cornum is a diasporic Diné writer living in Brooklyn and studying smutty science fiction at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Essays & Reviews

Burial Ground Acknowledgements

By Lou CornumOctober 14, 2019
Land acknowledgments as acts of institutional inclusion obscure the antagonism that follows from genocide
Features

Fight for the Future

By Lou CornumAugust 2, 2019
On Mauna Kea hundreds are holding a refuge and defending land from the proponents of false progress
Essays & Reviews

Red Planet

By Lou Cornum and Nick EstesMay 8, 2019
An interview with Nick Estes about his new book, Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Features

Scam or Die

By Maya Binyam, Lou Cornum and Tiana ReidApril 1, 2019
The New Inquiry editors discuss last year’s so-called “Summer of Scam” and its endless aftermath
Essays & Reviews

White Magic

By Lou CornumFebruary 5, 2018
Though it is the subtext of savagery that animates narratives around witches, white women who take up the mantle of witch magic rarely understand themselves to be engaging in Indian or savage play
Essays & Reviews

The Space NDN's Star Map

By Lou CornumJanuary 26, 2015
The creation story is a spaceship
Essays & Reviews

American History

By Lou CornumOctober 17, 2013
Is Indian history—or are Indians, for that matter—actually real?
Essays & Reviews

The Laughing Indian

By Lou CornumNovember 21, 2012
Sherman Alexie trades the stoic Indian stereotype for another, but do his jokes tickle or unsettle?
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