Toni Jensen grew up in the Midwest around guns: As a girl, she learned how to shoot birds with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA.

Language eng Summary 'A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun violence-for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Terese Marie Mailhot.

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Label Carry : a memoir of survival on stolen land Title Carry Title remainder a memoir of survival on stolen land Statement of responsibility Toni Jensen Title variation Memoir of survival on stolen land Creator With each chapter, Carry reminds us that surviving in one's country is not the same as surviving one's country.'. In prose at once forensic and deeply emotional, Toni Jensen shows herself to be a brave new voice and a fearless witness to her own difficult history-as well as to the violent cultural landscape in which she finds her coordinates as a Native American woman. In 'Women in the Fracklands,' Jensen takes the reader inside Standing Rock during the Dakota Access pipeline protests, as well as the peril faced by women, in regions overcome by the fracking boom. 'At the Workshop' focuses on her graduate school years, during which a classmate repeatedly wrote stories in which he killed thinly veiled versions of her. 'The Worry Line' explores the gun and gang violence in her neighborhood the year her daughter was born. In the title chapter, Jensen recalls the discrimination she faced in college as a Native American student from her roommate to her faculty adviser. In Carry, Jensen maps her personal experience onto the historical, exploring how history is lived in the body and redefining the language we use to speak about violence in America.

As a Métis woman, she is no stranger to the violence enacted on the bodies of indigenous women, on indigenous land, and the ways it is hidden, ignored, forgotten. And she has always known she is not alone. As an adult, she's had guns waved in her face in the fracklands around Standing Rock, and felt their silent threat on the concealed-carry campus where she teaches. Summary 'A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun violence-for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Terese Marie Mailhot.

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