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Birding While Indian
Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir | Thomas C Gannon
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Catalogs a lifetime of bird sightings to explore the part-Lakota author's search for identity and his reckoning with colonialism's violence against Indigenous humans, animals, and land.
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I am by no means a “birder” but I really took something away from this book. Through a series of essays that combine stories from Gannon‘s life and his love of birding, he touches on subjects that a lot of non Native people might not want to hear, but should. He‘s made me think twice about ascribing human characteristics to animals, as he views it as a product of colonization. And naturally I have begun to take more notice of the birds around me.