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Synopsis
Since 1992, every issue of News from Native California has carried a feature loved and anticipated by its subscribers--a cartoon by L. Frank Manriquez. With backwards writing to slow the reader down, each cartoon places us in a whimsical and improbable world, challenging stereotypes about California Indians and preconceptions about life in general. Here we find Coyote in all his guises contradictions, the Creator of the Universe and the Buffoon, the Trickster and the Tricked, the Indian's Wise Fool. Always liminal, L. Frank's Coyote and friends have one foot in the modern world, the other in the ancient. Dressed in a suit and necktie, Coyote waits at a bus stop with a deer-head decoy mask and briefcase. Attending an art museum opening, he thinks of the wine and cheese. He's as modern as any of us, but still he's Coyote!
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L. Frank's drawings create a whimsical, improbable, yet oddly familiar world. A descendant of the Tongva and Ajachmem people of Southern California, she works with a surgical precision and uniquely twisted sense of humor much admired by natives and non-natives alike. Her drawings address everything from creation stories to the ironies of indegenous life today, often witht he help of Coyote, California's native trickster.
L. Frank's images--collected into book form for the first time--bring withthem an enticing sense of hte ancient life of native California and a taste of hte eccentric, intelligent, subtle humor that has helped it to survive to this day.
About the Author
L. Frank Manriquez is a member of the Tongva and Ajachamen tribes of Southern California. She is an artist and tribal scholar active in cultural and language preservation throughout California. In 1995, she was recognized by KQED as one of the "Unsung Heroes" of the San Francisco Bay Area Native American community. She is currently teaching Native American Studies at University of California at Davis, and is living in Santa Rosa.
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- PublisherHeyday Books
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1890771147
- ISBN 13 9781890771140
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages64
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