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Yellow Medicine Review

A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, & Thought

Publisher’s description: The title Yellow Medicine Review is significant in that it incorporates the name of a river in Minnesota. The Dakota dug the yellow root of the moonseed plant for medicinal purposes—for healing. Such is the spirit of Yellow Medicine Review. The journal, however, is not a regional publication of only Dakota voices. Instead, it is an international platform, opening new pathways for scholarly and creative expression on the international scale, carrying us into the territory where emerging voices and visions are beginning to take their places among already established indigenous writers, artists, and scholars. Each issue is edited by a different Indigenous writer or scholar and contains only work from the Indigenous perspective.

Recent issues:

A journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought, the Fall 2011 issue features work from Susan Power, Anthony Spaeth, Scott Andrews, Kimberlee Medicine Horn Jackson, Deborah Jackson-Taffa, Cecelia LaPointe, Ricardo Acuña, John Presley, Juan Miguel Mecéeri Zapata Herrera, Louis E. Bourgeois, Kimberly Roppolo, ire’ne lara silva, Melissa Schnarr-Rice, Claudia Mundell, G.A. Saindon, and many more.

YMR is a platform for indigenous voices and artwork on the international scale. The cover of the journal has become a coveted platform for indigenous artists. It publishes high quality fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by well-known and emerging writers. It's one of the most respected indigenous publications available to date. The Spring 2011 issue features the work of 43 writers and scholars, including Duane Niatum, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, Ralph Salisbury, John D. Berry, Travis Hedge Coke, Richard Walker, Kimberly Becker, Janet Rogers, Howard W. Robertson and Joanne Arnott. The cover is graced with Contemporary Northwest Coast Indian Art.