A dead bridge, a dead theory - the Bering Strait theory, dead to Native peoples, whose hundreds of creation accounts dispel those of anthropologists. This collection of poems by Mohawk poet, James Thomas Stevens, written after a trip to China in 2002. After entering the catholic Xujiahui cathedral across from his hotel, he was led to do research on Jesuit interactions with Asia. What he encountered there in the cathedral and in museums in Shanghai, was reminiscent of the history of Jesuits in his home in Iroquoia, especially in the Mohawk homelands along the Saint Lawrence River. The first...
A dead bridge, a dead theory - the Bering Strait theory, dead to Native peoples, whose hundreds of creation accounts dispel those of anthropologists. ...
