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The essays are linked by overarching examinations of how Europeans manipulated native ideas about gender for their own ends and how indigenous people responded to European attempts to impose gendered cultural practices at odds with established traditions

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The Museum of Unnatural Histories louise pick and songs that speak ofArchiving stories of dissonance and curating connection inside the imagined museum. This extraordinary debut poetry collection by Dena'ina poet Annie Wenstrup delicately parses personal history in the space of an imagined museum. Outside the museum, Ggugguyni (the Dena'ina Raven) and The Museum Curator collect discarded French fries, earrings, and secrets or as the curator explains, together they curate moments of cataclysm. Inside the museum, their