‘One hell of a testimony’
Aug 01, 2020
3 minutes
BY ALEX TRIMBLE YOUNG
author portrait, the “about” page of Cherokee writer Kelli Jo Ford’s website features a curious snapshot of a highway winding through a red-rock canyon. On the left side of the road, a brown highway sign reads “INDIAN WRITING,” with an arrow pointing right, presumably toward petroglyphs carved in the nearby towering sandstone cliffs. Between the arrow and the ancient rock carvings, however, stands Ford herself, scribbling away in a notebook. The caption reads: “How. Did. They. Know.”
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