dana lonehill : Oyate Wacinyanpi Wi

Trace's motto

 

Dana LoneHill (Oglala Lakota) was a gifted writer and so much more.  She only did one book but she had many more inside her.  She passed in 2019.  Trace (Blue Hand Books) helped publish her only book POINTING WITH LIPS (2014). "I am rereading her book now. It is SO F*CKING GREAT!" Trace told Otis. (Trace was her editor and publisher.)

EBAY has copies. (We don't use amazon but they do sell the ebook and paperback)

BUY: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Dana+Lone+Hill&_sacat=0

Her Publisher: https://badbananabooks.blogspot.com/p/dana-lone-hill.html 

 

Pointing with Lips is filled with wonderful inside jokes about PSA Indians, recycling owls, commod cheese, wateca, and pointing with lips, but there are also Lakota lessons being passed along in the picturesque descriptions of the Black Hills, Badlands, and even the Pine Ridge Reservation. In our interview, Lone Hill told me, "People see our reservations and they see poverty, broken down communities and families. What they do not see is the beauty I see and respect. Landscapes tell a story, they tell [us] we need to continue with educating the next generation that we belong to this land and we need to care for the land that feeds us, shelters us, gives us water."  The stories are passed down from generation to generation in the novel and in Lone Hill's life, "I think my biggest influences for storytelling were two of my grandfathers.  I try to remember them and tell them to my children. It is a way of keeping our history... alive." The story Lone Hill passes down and the stories Sis narrates are Lakota histories recorded for survivance.
via Pointing with Lips: A Week in the Life of a Rez Chick (Dana Lone Hill) | Twenter | Transmotion.