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# Daniel Heath Justice

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## Posts

- [Letter to an Emerging Indigenous Writer](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/letter-to-an-emerging-indigenous-writer/) - [Originally written as an appendix for Why Indigenous Literatures Matter, it didn’t quite seem to fit with the book, so the Press suggested we present it as a stand-alone piece that could be more easily shared with the writers to whom it was addressed. It was originally published on the Literary Hub website on 27 March 2018; it's
- [Observations From an Unexpected Heraldry Geek](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/understanding-who-we-are-through-shared-narratives/) - I’ve had a lifelong fascination with diverse traditions of symbolism, emblemry, iconography, and heraldry, and the ways in which distinctive and carefully designed visual images can distill and capture the essence of identity, values, and relationships of significance. This, plus my lifelong love of fantasy literature and film, made an interest in heraldry almost inevitable. When I
- [Badgerfiles: On Badgers and Emergences](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/badgerfiles-on-badgers-and-emergences/) - [Originally posted 13 January 2015] Among the Pueblo peoples of the American Southwest, the solitary North American species of badger, Taxidea taxus, is a primordial friend and ally; indeed, as Laguna Pueblo writer Leslie Marmon Silko observes, it was a she-badger who made possible the migration of humans and other beings from the Fourth World beneath
- [Badgerfiles: What is a Badger?](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/badgerfiles-what-is-a-badger/) - [Originally posted 28 November 2014] What is a badger? A simple question, but not such a simple answer, as the category of “badger” is actually quite a malleable and dynamic one. Historically, and across many cultures throughout the world, badgers have long been considered a smallish type of bear, dog, or pig, both biologically and ceremonially.
- [Badgerfiles: Whatever Became of Josiah, the White House Badger?](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/badgerfiles-whatever-became-of-josiah-the-white-house-badger/) - [Originally posted 7 December 2014] In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt set off on a campaign tour by train across the western United States, stopping in various communities along the way. In the small Kansas town of Sharon Springs, he attended church service and made the acquaintance of a little girl who, according to Roosevelt, asked
- [Badgerfiles: Badger FAQ](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/badgerfiles-badger-faq/) - [Originally posted 1 February 2015] “What’s the deal with you and badgers?” It’s a fair question, and one I’m asked not infrequently by both longtime friends and new acquaintances. Admittedly, badgers are pretty far removed from my other writings and scholarship–and in some ways my badger interest is a seemingly eccentric departure. After all, I’ve
- [Badgerfiles: Badgers in Literature-Grimbart](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/badgerfiles-badgers-in-literature-grimbart/) - [Originally posted 20 April 2015] In North America and Europe alike, there are many stories–and a long history–about badgers in relationship with their canid neighbours–generally coyotes in the former, foxes in the latter. Not only have cooperative hunting and dwelling interactions been extensively observed as actual behaviours in nature, they have also become part of the
- [Badgerfiles: Collective Nouns-Cete, Cote, Clan or Sight?](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/badgerfiles-collective-nouns-cete-cote-clan-or-sight/) - [Originally posted 11 August 2015] Collective nouns are a curiously eccentric feature of English, whereby evocative or pun-inspired terms are used to describe a group of animals, people, or items. Many of these are common parts of our everyday language–a pride of lions, a murder of crows, a host of angels, a flight of stairs–and have their roots in older vocabulary and terminology
- [Badgerfiles: National Badger Day 2015 - Another Problem with the UK Cull](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/badgerfiles-national-badger-day-2015-another-problem-with-the-uk-cull/) - [Originally posted 6 October 2015] Today, 6 October 2015, is National Badger Day in the UK. It’s a day dedicated to this wondrous nocturnal mustelid, its symbolism and cultural significance, its important ecological role, and its continued struggles, especially in the anti-science/pro-agribusiness context of the Cameron government’s explicitly anti-wildlife policies. Although the situation in the
- [Badgerfiles: Miscellaneous Badgers in Literature](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/badgerfiles-miscellaneous-badgers-in-literature/) - KENNETH GRAHAME’S OTHER BADGER [originally posted 4 January 2015] Although best known for The Wind in the Willows (1908), the writer Kenneth Grahame was also the creator of the short story, “The Reluctant Dragon” (1898). As a somewhat vexed romantic, and as a keen observer of both animal behaviour and human attitudes toward animals, Grahame offers another badger,

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/) - Exploring Nationhood, Sovereignty, and the Power of Imagination Photo by Jacquelyn Sparks (Cherokee Nation), 2025 Imagine Otherwise A Personal Motto Daniel Heath Justice (enrolled citizen, Cherokee Nation) is a professor, author, and cultural critic whose work bridges Indigenous literary history, Cherokee Studies, Indigenous nationhood and citizenship, and other-than-human kinship, while also extending into gender and
- [Scholarship](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/scholarship/) - Scholarship Published Books & Articles Research Statement & Current Projects Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Textual Sovereignties Drawing on and contributing to scholarship in literary studies and cultural history, my work considers how collective Indigenous nationhood, sovereignty, and other-than-human kinship are expressed and extended in our imaginative arts. In both my critical and creative work
- [About](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/about/) - About Daniel My Story So Far “Writing in all its forms is a scary act; it makes us vulnerable and exposes our softest parts to a world not known for its gentleness. But there’s magnificent power in that vulnerability, and it’s deserving of acknowledgment.” - Daniel Heath Justice BIOGRAPHY Personal and Academic Background I’m a
- [Creative Work](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/creative-work/) - Creative Work Published Books Creative Overview My personal motto is “Imagine Otherwise,” and this is the perspective that shapes and informs all my writing, especially my creative work. How might the world look different if we didn’t start with the corrosive and simplistic binary of “savagism vs. civilization”? What would fantasy fiction look like with
- [Blog](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/blog/)

## Projects

- [Kynship: The Way of Thorn and Thunder](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/project/kynship-the-way-of-thorn-and-thunder/) - Buy Book Here Kynship: The Way of Thorn and Thunder KEGEDONCE PRESS (2005) The Everland, home of the Eld-Folk since time immemorial, is a deep green world of ancient mystery and sacred shadow. A thousand years have passed since the world of Men and the world of the Folk collided in catastrophe. The wyr-powers of
- [Allotment Stories: Indigenous Responses to Settler Colonial Land Privatization](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/project/allotment-stories-indigenous-responses-to-settler-colonial-land-privatization/) - Buy Book Here Allotment Stories: Indigenous Responses to Settler Colonial Land Privatization CO-EDITED WITH JEAN M. O’BRIEN (WHITE EARTH OJIBWE), UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, 2022) The driving force behind settler colonialism has been the expropriation of Indigenous lands through warfare, displacement, incarceration, and—especially in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—the fracturing of collective
- [Why Indigenous Literatures Matter](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/project/why-indigenous-literatures-matter/) - Buy Book Here Why Indigenous Literatures Matter INDIGENOUS STUDIES SERIES (WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2018) Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today. In considering the connections between
- [Our Fire Survives The Storm: A Cherokee Literary History, Citizenship and Sovereignty Edition](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/project/our-fire-survives-the-storm-a-cherokee-literary-history-citizenship-and-sovereignty-edition/) - Buy Book Here Our Fire Survives The Storm: A Cherokee Literary History, Citizenship And Sovereignty Edition INDIGENOUS AMERICAS SERIES (UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, 2026) [Publisher’s description] The twentieth-anniversary edition of the path-clearing study of Cherokee writing in English, with an emphatic refocus on voices from the three Cherokee tribal nations This Citizenship and Sovereignty Edition of Our
- [The Way of Thorn and Thunder: The Kynship Chronicles](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/project/the-way-of-thorn-and-thunder-the-kynship-chronicles/) - Buy Book Here The Way of Thorn and Thunder: The Kynship Chronicles UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS (2011) Taking fantasy literature beyond the stereotypes, Daniel Heath Justice’s acclaimed Thorn and Thunder novels are set in a world resembling eighteenth-century North America. The original trilogy is available for the first time as a fully revised one-volume
- [Wyrwood: The Way of Thorn and Thunder](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/project/wyrwood-the-way-of-thorn-and-thunder/) - Buy Book Here Wyrwood: The Way of Thorn and Thunder KEGEDONCE PRESS (2006) The Sevenfold Council stands firm against Dreydmaster Vald’s treaty terms—they will not surrender the Everland. Their will is strong, but there is a traitor in their midst, and Vald intends to win this struggle… by any means necessary. As the Everland is
- [Dreyd: The Way of Thorn and Thunder](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/project/dreyd-the-way-of-thorn-and-thunder/) - Buy Book Here Dreyd: The Way of Thorn and Thunder KEGEDONCE PRESS (2007) The forces of Eromar ravage the Everland, and the skies are filled with the smoke and ashes of the burning woods. Those Folk who do not escape into the far mountains and hidden valleys are driven into the broken westlands of Humanity,
- [Raccoon](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/project/raccoon/) - Buy Book Here Raccoon BOOK 100 IN THE ANIMAL SERIES FROM REAKTION BOOKS, EDITOR JONATHAN BURT (Reaktion Books, 2021) Masked bandits of the night, raiders of farm crops and rubbish bins, raccoons are notorious for their indifference to human property and propriety, yet they are also admired for their intelligence, dexterity and determination. Raccoons have
- [Badger](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/project/badger/) - Buy Book Here Badger ANIMAL SERIES, EDITOR JONATHAN BURT (REAKTION BOOKS, 2015) Viewed as fierce, menacing or mysterious, badgers have been both admired and reviled throughout human history. Their global reputation for ferocious self-defence has led to brutalization by hunters and sport-seekers; their association with the mythic underworld has made them symbols of earth-based wisdom
- [Our Fire Survives the Storm (First Edition)](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/project/our-fire-survives-the-storm-first-edition/) - Our Fire Survives the Storm INDIGENOUS AMERICAS SERIES (UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, 2007) [1st edition description] This book examines many of the ways that Cherokees have understood and expressed identity and experience through writing in English. Drawing from this rich and ever-expanding canon, I examine three primary features of historical and contemporary Cherokee life–nationhood, removal,
- [Reasoning Together](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/project/reasoning-together/) - Buy Book Here Reasoning Together COLLECTIVE EDITORSHIP (UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS, 2008) This collectively authored volume celebrates a group of Native critics performing community in a lively, rigorous, sometimes contentious dialogue that challenges the aesthetics of individual literary representation. Janice Acoose infuses a Cree reading of Canadian Cree literature with a creative turn to Cree language; Lisa
- [The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature](https://www.danielheathjustice.com/project/the-oxford-handbook-of-indigenous-american-literature/) - Buy Book Here The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature CO-EDITED WITH JAMES H. COX, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2014) This book explores Indigenous American literature and the development of an inter- and trans-Indigenous orientation in Native American and Indigenous literary studies. Drawing on the perspectives of scholars in the field,

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