(Lees) P.D.F Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
By Toni Jensen
A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous
woman in America, told in snapshots of the author?s encounters with gun
violence.Toni Jensen grew up around guns: As a girl, she learned to shoot
birds in rural Iowa with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA.
As an adult, she?s had guns waved in her face near Standing Rock, and felt
their silent threat on the concealed-carry campus where she teaches. And
she has always known that in this she is not alone. As a M?tis woman, she
is no stranger to the violence enacted on the bodies of indigenous women,
on indigenous land, and the ways it is hidden, ignored, forgotten.In Carry,
Jensen maps her personal experience onto the historical, exploring how
history is lived in the body and redefining the language we use to speak
about violence in America. In the title chapter, Jensen connects the
trauma of school shootings with her own experiences of racism and sexual
assault on college campuses. "The Worry Line"
