"A . . . work by Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliott, 'A Mind Spread Out on the Ground' is a personal and critical meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America. In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers . . . insight and understanding to the ongoing legacy of colonialism . . . In the process, she engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, sexuality, love, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrification, writing and representation [and] makes connections both large and small between the past and present, the personal and political . . ."--Provided by publisher.

Spoken audio file. Duration: approximately 07:16:00 hr. Originally released by Dreamscape Media.