Beth H. Piatote is a Nez Perce writer and associate professor of Native American Studies at UC Berkeley. “Feast” is drawn from her collection The Beadworkers: Stories, forthcoming from Counterpoint Press in 2019.
Nonfiction
Winter 2010
Our (Someone Else’s) Father
Articulation, Dysarticulation, and Indigenous Literary Traditions¹ On any given Sunday at Saint Andrew’s Mission in Pendleton, Oregon, it is possible to hear and recite Hail Mary in Nimipuutímt, the Nez […]
Jan/Feb 2019
Feast (triptych)
Feast I kú·s first taste of life not air but water, carried by our mothers, we taste water rising from earth, turning in salt waters where you nacóɂx̣ travel through […]