Kim Shuck talks about being a political poet and how she uses her poetry to educate about and expose important issues, including the disproportionate disappearings of Native American women. She reads powerful poems from her book, Murdered Missing.
Kim Shuck talks about her unique Cherokee bead artistry, in which she uses very fine beadwork to embellish baseballs, sticks, and other objects, both to showcase her community’s knowledge and technology and also to participate in meaningful community giving.
Kim Shuck talks about her identity as a Euro-Native woman living in San Francisco, in the context of the history of the Cherokee Nation, the settler colonization of the United States, and her paternal Cherokee side’s proclivity for mathematics.
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Sections from a poetry action. I wrote every day in 2023, primarily on subjects involving disenfranchisement and the environment.
The colossal events of 2020 inspired the series of photos and paintings entitled ‘Las Mariposas.’ They capture the Indigenous roots and formidable power of sisters Mari and Suzy Huerta, descendants of the Rarámuri, Huichol, and Cazcan people of Central America.
