Congratulations to American Indian Studies' own Tribal Administration and Governance student, Hilary Pohl, whose story, “She Who Helped Nanaboozhoo,” was a finalist in the Indigenous Fiction Prize, sponsored by the Chapter House Journal, the literary journal of the Institute for American Indian Arts.
Pohl’s story was her final project for the Native New Worlds course taught by Morse Alumni Distinguished Professor Carter Meland this past spring. Impressed with the poetic power of the story, Prof. Meland encouraged her to enter the contest. Renowned writer and University of Montana professor emeritus Debra Magpie Earling described Pohl’s short story as a “welcoming fantasy and traditional story that brilliantly takes on colonialism.”
Pohl’s work will be published in the journal's upcoming issue. Her story and those of the other finalists can be read at Chapter House Journal's Indigenous Fiction Prize Folio.