Indigenous Author Tommy Orange Digs Into Our Past — So We Can Embrace Who We Are Today

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Chyana Marie Sage is a Cree writer from Canada whose writing focuses on Indigenous identity and storytelling. Her debut memoir, Soft As Bones, is forthcoming with House of Anansi, Winter 2025.

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I write from the inside out. I really need to know my characters, what they think about, what they’re like in the interior, before I have them doing things in the world. To make them feel real to me, I have to make the inside partHow do you tap into that internal world of each character and use it to explain history and culture in this story?

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