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A conversation with Esther G.Belin
(Талком, Київ, 2019-05) Jacobs, Connie; Джейкобз, Конні
Esther Belin is an award-winning Diné (Navajo) poet who has gained national acclaim for her two books, From the Belly of My Beauty (1999) and On Cartography (2017). She is one of the most talented Diné poets whose talents were recognized by awarding her the prestigious Before Columbus Foundation, American book Award for her first book. In this book she confronts and challenges the 1956 Federal Indian Relocation Act which took over 30,000 reservation Indians off their homeland and placed them in larger cities with the goal to have them learn vocational skills and assimilate into the larger society. This was just one of the U.S. Government’s appalling plans to solve the “Indian Problem.” As a second-generation product of relocation, Esther writes of the devastating consequences of removing people from their homeland with the accompanying loss of identity, language, and culture. Her most recently published book, On Cartography, maps her journey back to her homeland in the Southwest where she is closer to her Diné people than she was in Los Angeles, California where she grew up. Her book is filled with maps and reflections on belonging, and she invites the reader to join her on her journey by including seven assignments for us to complete. This book is the work of an accomplished poet.