“Trust the first drum, your heart, for all your answers. Her moving and poignant memoir, Black Indian, explores issues of identity, tri-raciality, landscape and loss, while her book of poetry, Who’s Afraid of Black Indians? is a difficult yet beautiful collection of poetry such as “ The Trail” that peeks into one American family’s cultural window. Black Indian (Memoir) and Who’s Afraid of Black Indians?” (Poetry)Īn educator for the last 20 years, Shonda Buchanan was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan where she spent much of her adolescence curled up in libraries, bathtubs, and on her front porch, reading. Shonda Buchanan of Choctaw, Coharie, Cherokee & African Heritage is an Award-winning Poet and Fiction Writer.
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