Institute of American Indian Arts

Intrigue of the Heart, Tafisha Edwards Interviews Jennifer Elise Foerster

Intrigue of the Heart, Tafisha Edwards Interviews Jennifer Elise Foerster

That is what memories and dreams do. They affect everything. They affect how we face the day and how we interact with one another. So I am interested in working with them. But I like to learn about other people's memories too. Whenever I meet someone, I really want to hear all about them, not just how they see today, but what they carry with them. What memories are they dancing with or trying to get rid of? We are all in this process of trying to release things that we are clinging to, and to hold on to other things that we still need, like traditional medicines. And that is such a human thing.

A Sense of Kinship, Laura Pegram Interviews Santee Frazier

A Sense of Kinship, Laura Pegram Interviews Santee Frazier

My grandfather, who was my father for the first five years of my life, spoke Cherokee to me as a baby.  It was my first language, and I feel the first words we hear in the beginnings of our human existence shape our lifelong relationship with language. In some ways, even though I have forgotten how to speak Cherokee fluently, I feel as if I think in that language, and my poems possess the sound and rhythmic qualities I heard as a child.

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