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  Lucid House Publishing Releases Legendary Lakota Leader, Joseph M. Marshall III’s, Final Work June 24, 2026| LAKOTA TIMES   Inducted Hall of Fame Activist Completed Final Masterpiece on the Day of His Passing To Confront Decades of Systemic Neglect and Give Platform to Forgotten Indigenous Stories. ATLANTA, Ga. — Lucid House Publishing announced a sweeping national media campaign today to unleash the final, defining literary works of the late Joseph M. Marshall III, PhD, an internationally bestselling Sicangu Oglala Lakota author, historian, and towering cultural force who passed away last April on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.  This initiative is a deeply personal mission for Lucid House Publishing as the independent publisher shared a profound, years long frie...

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I tell you what - that was work to create a stand-alone website on wordpress for Blue Hand Books (.org) ...  but it's UP! FINALLY!    LINK: https://blue-hand-books.org/2026/07/12/hello-world 

  LISTEN:  https://www.npr.org/2025/10/16/nx-s1-5575209/julian-brave-noisecat-we-survived-the-night HISTORY:  SUGARCANE MOVIE:  INTERVIEW:  https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2025/10/16/literature-julian-brave-noisecat-native-author/

  Award-winning poet Laura Da’ traces land loss, trauma and healing in her new collection “Severalty” In her third poetry collection, teacher and poet Laura Da’ explores Indigenous endurance in the face of erasure. by Shin Yu Pai | October 16, 2025 UW Magazine Facebook @UWalum @UWalum Jump To Comments Laura Da’, whose book “Severalty” references the Dawes Severalty Act, studied creative writing at the UW and the Institute of American Indian Arts. Laura Da’s latest poetry collection, “Severalty,” centers on the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887, a piece of federal legislation that was used to dismantle the political, cultural and territorial cohesion of tribal communities. The law authorized the division of communal reservation lands into individually owned parcels. “It had a direct bearing on my ancestors by reducing tribal landmass into small ...

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SEND YOUR INFO: https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/ Anthropic AI Class Action: Important Information for Authors Artificial Intelligence August 19, 2025 Earlier this summer, a federal court in California issued a major ruling in  Bartz v. Anthropic , one of the copyright class action lawsuits involving AI. The court held that a trial should occur over whether Anthropic’s downloading of millions of books from the pirate websites Library Genesis (“LibGen”) and Pirate Library Mirror (“PiLiMi”) infringed the rights of copyright holders. (It also held that Anthropic’s use of books to train AI was fair use, a holding with which the Authors Guild disagrees.) On July 17, the court certified a class comprised of legal and beneficial owners of the rights in copyright-registered books downloaded by Anthropic from these...

 Doubleday wins three-way auction for Eliana Ramage’s ‘expansive coming-of-age’ debut Apr 23, 2025 by Heloise Wood Eliana Ramage © Leah Margulies Doubleday has acquired To the Moon and Back , the debut novel by Eliana Ramage, in a three-way auction. Editorial director Bobby Mostyn-Owen acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein following a three-way bidding war, on behalf of Meredith Kaffel Simonoff at The Gernert Company. Doubleday will publish in hardback in February 2026. Margo Shickmanter at Avid Reader Press will publish in the US this autumn, as will Simon & Schuster Canada. The synopsis reads: “Steph Harper is on the run. When she was six, her mother ran – with Steph and her younger sister in tow – from an abusive husband into the arms of a small Cherokee community, where she hoped they might finally belong. But Steph soon sets her sights as far away as she can get, vowing that she will let nothing interfer...

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  🎉Congratulations @morgan_j_talty ! Winner of the 🏆2022 New England Book Award for Fiction! @neibabooks #NEIBA #NEIBAAwards pic.twitter.com/J3ZTr0tLU2 — Tin House (@Tin_House) September 23, 2022   @Morgan_J_Talty  Writer / pαnawάhpskewi from the Penobscot Indian Nation / NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ out now from @tin_house   reviews: While soaked in pain and broken promises, Night of The Living Rez delivers with a grace and dignity on par with the writings of Craig Lesley, Dawn Dumont, James Welch and Joseph Dandurand. Morgan Talty delivers on so many levels and proves that this is why Indigenous Literature continues to be its own unique and sacred blessing. I loved this book. Loved it. And I can't wait to see what Morgan Talty does next. I am a fan for life. Mahsi cho, Morgan!--Richard Van Camp, author of The Lesser Blessed   A collection of stories set in a Native community in Maine, Talty's book centers questions of what it means to be Penobscot t...

(2021) Race And Privilege In Rural Maine At Center Of Gregory Brown's Novel  New England Public Media | By Jill Kaufman ...