"Reservation Dogs and Fallout's, Dallas Goldtooth joins Joshua to discuss North American Indigenous history and his love of sci-fi. How his decades working as an organizer and activist taught him that a powerful story is a necessity to instigate change in the world. Dallas talks how books are a therapeutic escape but also a way for him to comb stories for morsels of imagining a more vibrant way of living. He and Joshua examine how story can exist in a compelling but non-violent way in a more ideal world and Dallas lends an example through a myth of his people involving a snow giant and a trickster as allegory for the very real dangers of the winter cold. This is the first remote episode of the podcast, Joshua records from inside a study room at the library and Dallas from his son's room.
Books Talked About Include:
"Black Sun" series by Rebecca Roanhorse
An Indigenous People's History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
"Autumn of the Black Snake" by William Hogeland
"Our History is the Future" by Nick Estes (Josh briefly mentions)
"Pleasure Activism" by adrienne maree brown
"Dune"
"Siddartha" by Herman Hesse
"The Burning" series by Evan Winter