This Wound Is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky / to world inside

Isabel and Ray join them in an overcrowded house

mountain lions

Through five generations at Pejuhutazizi (the place where they dig the yellow medicine)

what is essential is invisible to the eye

Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction Chickasaw This Wound Is a WorldScience fiction often operates as either an extended metaphor for human relationships or as a genuine attempt to encounter the alien Other. Both types of stories tend to rehearse the processes of colonialism, in which a sympathetic protagonist encounters and tames the unknown. Despite this logic, Native American writers have claimed the genre as a productive space in which they can critique historical colonialism and reassert the value of Indigenous