writer Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees

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Upcoming Publications 2010

Nature’s Dreaming
Whole Thinking Journal,
Summer 2010

Indigenous Mind
Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World
North Atlantic Press
September 2010

Nature’s Dreaming
Moral Ground
Trinity University Press
September 2010

“Like Grandmother Mabel I want my granddaughter to remember everything I do, but, even as I tell the story, I find myself pulling out the strands of strongest connection. It is not that one fact has more truth than another but rather that it clarifies the color, texture and line of my story. So stories are created, woven together not chronologically but magically to strengthen the connection to the ancestors, the family and the earth. The story I am weaving for Wind in the Mountains and for her granddaughter pulls in many worlds, and the women from those worlds have chosen to be part of it. I am still unpeeling the layers of meaning in Grandmother Mabel's words. Each remembering reveals fuller meaning and enriches the legacy of my family”

“Somebody Always Singing You”
University Press of Mississippi 1997

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“This is all a part of who I am as a teacher and seeker. This is part of the body of information I bring to a classroom or a workshop. These experiences, like learning with the elders of the tribes, are key to the journeys of knowledge. The challenge of linking this kind of learning with the traditional systems of pedagogy excites me and frustrates me. I am excited to bring primarily oral traditions, rhythmic cultures, and the song and dance of living into the academic curriculum. I am frustrated by the fact that those who seek me out and hire me have not resolved their own doubts about “doing/living the vision” as an integral part of the critical thinking process of pedagogy. What remains at issue for me are the areas of focus, intention, question and commitment. These are the areas that prepare our young for the hero’s mythic journey- the search for self after initiation into the tribe.”

“Mixed Blood, New Voices”
Spirit, Space & Survival: African American Women in (White) Academe,
edited by Joy James and Ruth Farmer. Foreword by Angela Y. Davis
Routledge, 1993.
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“In the dreadful and marvelous chaos and consistency of daily life, a memory teases me. When it is strong, I reach for it to give it shape - as an idea, a thought, an object, a person, a set of events - held loosely in the grasp. This always fails, leading me to restlessness, unfocused desire, waiting to be abated by having or getting something- anything. Sometimes (seldom, I am loath to admit) I simply wait, hoping it will reveal itself to my patience. The memory that stretches me to cosmic proportion and shrinks me to a detail of what is.”

“I to i”
whanau press 2002

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Searching for the Thirteenth Moon: A Lunar Book of Days
This book of days is both reclaiming of the female calendar and reaching out to other women to help them name and count their own world. Naming and counting are acts of power. Indigenous people and women have historically lost much of that power. To reclaim a calendar that harmonizes women's bodies with the world around them is a powerful act and one that has impact on our relationship with the landscapes in which we live.

whanau press 2001
Currently Out of Print

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