: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk LaPointe, Sasha Taqwsablu. creator Sasha TaqʷšƏblu Lapointe. text Californai : Counterpoint , 2023 monographic eng

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225p. : 18cm. Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe has always longed for a sense of home. When she was a child, her family moved around frequently, often staying in barely habitable church attics and trailers, dangerous places for young Sasha. With little more to guide her than a passion for the thriving punk scene of the Pacific Northwest and a desire to live up to the responsibility of being the namesake of her beloved great-grandmother—a linguist who helped preserve her Indigenous language of Lushootseed—Sasha throws herself headlong into the world, determined to build a better future for herself and her people. Set against a backdrop of the breathtaking beauty of Coast Salish ancestral land and imbued with the universal spirit of punk, Red Paint is ultimately a story of the ways we learn to find our true selves while fighting for our right to claim a place of our own. Examining what it means to be vulnerable in love and in art, Sasha offers up an unblinking reckoning with personal traumas amplified by the collective historical traumas of colonialism and genocide that continue to haunt native peoples. Red Paint is an intersectional autobiography of lineage, resilience, and, above all, the ability to heal. / Sasha Lapointe. History Autobiography Coast Salish Punk 979.700 LAP 9781640095885 : Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd. : 2/25 First Floor, Arun House, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi 260810 20260810161428.0