Treaty Shirts

"In writing that's full of possibilities, Gerald Vizenor delivers to us the native world that should be."—Diane Glancy, author of Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education

"Treaty Shirts masterfully exhibits the capacities of stories to create enduring images of natural reason as it strides the shifty terrain of cultural survivance, treaty rights and intellectual sovereignty. Most impressive is the way Vizenor achieves his aims, not through condemnation and animus, but by the humor and tease of stories that are the achievement of a literary artist at the height of his powers."—Billy J. Stratton, author of Buried in Shades of Night

"In a pithy of 125 pages of story, Vizenor deftly discusses continental sovereignty, cultural memory, treaty tales, Native creation stories, exotic victimry, totemic unions, and a wide range of other topics, all with the human animal and its intraspecies war at the forefront."—Shawn M. Higgins, The American Indian Quarterly

"[A]n ironic, intertextual, slipstream, futurist, speculative constitution and declaration of the rights of human, chicken, mongrel, holotrope, and mutant fish beings Treaty Shirts offers science fiction as an ironic, playful space to imagine possibilities for survivance and sovereignty."—Stina Attebery, Los Angeles Review of Books

"Treaty Shirts weaves 18th century history with speculative fiction, literary references with pop culture, Ojibwe dream songs with internet belief, and real people with native trickster stories."—Morning Edition - MPR (Minnesota Public Radio)