Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction Iñupiaq Treuer has orchestrated a moving

Treuer has orchestrated a moving account of kinship and survival

ravine running

Together they sit underneath the family’s cottonwood tree

are from Keewaydinoquay for all of us

In addressing the core tenets of Indigenous resistance movements

Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction Iñupiaq Treuer has orchestrated a movingScience 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