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Thanks to a generous grant from
the Ford Foundation, on behalf of the Difficult Dialogues Initiative on the campus of Southwest Minnesota State University,
a brand new publication, Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought came into being.
The title Yellow Medicine Review is significant in
that it incorporates the name of a river in Southwest Minnesota. The Dakota dug the yellow root of the moonseed plant
for medicinal purposes, for healing. Such is the spirit of Yellow Medicine Review.
Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought opens a
new pathway for scholarly and creative expression. New paths lead to new places; it seems only natural, then, that this first
edition should carry us into the territory where emerging voices and visions are beginning to take their places among already
established indigenous writers, artists and scholars.
At this time, we encourage submissions from indigenous perspectives in the area
of fiction, poetry, scholarly essays, and art. We define indigenous universally as representative of all
pre-colonial peoples.
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