Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing

MariJo Moore's most recent project, Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing, is a collection of thirty-three essays by various authors divided into five chapters. This fascinating and useful collection revolves around the lives of individuals existing in both the world of traditional Native values and modern society. The title, Genocide of the Mind, is dually represented both in the Native accommodation for survival and in the continual absence or perversion of Native existence in the mainstream mind. Vine Deloria, Jr. presents in the Foreword an important aspect of every essay in the collection: the survival and prosperity of Native Americans through adaptation. Moore's Introduction presents the idea that these essays are "by instead of about" Native Americans. She further clarifies that "no individual writer attempts to speak for his or her entire Nation, only from personal experiences."