When it was her turn to have her book signed, she told Alexie she was a friend of the woman who had organized his presentation.
Dismissively, Alexie snatched the book from her and began writing. I was just humiliated. He said Litsa Dremousis was spreading "accusations, insinuations and outright falsehoods" about him.
He further said the two once had a "consensual" relationship. Alexie, who has not responded to Indianz. Com's requests for comment, ended the statement by saying he was "genuinely sorry" for the people he had hurt but did not detail any of the behaviors for which he was apologizing.
On Monday, a story by National Public Radio presented the first public allegations of harassment against Alexie. The story quoted three of 10 women who were interviewed by NPR about their encounters with Alexie. One woman, poet and teacher Jeanine Walker , described being told by Alexie that he was interested in her poetry after he visited her classroom.
Three female writers have gone on record with accusations of sexual harassment against the acclaimed Native American author Sherman Alexie. Although at that point no women had spoken on the record to the media, Seattle author Litsa Dremousis alleged on Twitter that a number of women had been in touch with her to recount their stories.
To those whom I have hurt, I genuinely apologise. I am so sorry. Sherman Alexie , the award-winning author of such books as The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven , has been the subject of a social media campaign in recent days meant to expose his alleged unethical behavior toward female fans and co-workers.
She said she has learned that Alexie has undermined aspiring Native authors and fed mainstream expectations about Native people. Read other Native writers. Don't inadvertently join him in hurting other Native writers. No one from Royce Carlton contacted Indianz.
Com before publication of this article. Alexie also did not respond to email inquiries. One person described attending a dinner with Alexie and a group of librarians during which the author spoke continuously about sex and showed the women his hotel room number. Guess not.
This weekend on her Twitter feed , she called for any other alleged victims to come forward. Books written by Native women covering this topic are particularly important as Native women face rates of violence and rape at levels that are two and half times that of other American women. According to a National Congress of American Indians report : 34 percent of Native women will be raped in their lifetime, compared to 19 percent of Black women and 18 percent of White women.
And 61 percent of Native women 3 out of 5 have been assaulted. These rates are nearly 10 percent higher than any other ethnic group. Suicide rates for Native Americans are nearly double the national rate. And the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women MMIW has been gaining more attention both in the United States and in Canada, where a national task force is touring the country and recording testimony of First Nation communities.
Part of the problem is that little data is available on how many Native women go missing each year. Heidi Heitkamp D-ND includes funds for data collection. She alleges he attempted to lure her into his hotel room in Santa Fe and sent her photos of a hotel room bed with condoms visible on a side table.
Later, he accused her of plagiarizing him in an essay. At that point, she said she felt she had no choice but to leave IAIA. And that feels so lonely. Erika Wurth, another Native American writer and another woman who went on the record with NPR , gave a disturbing account of being a sexually inexperienced year-old in a state of panic and enduring a sexual attack by Alexie. Given the massive issue that sexual assault is for Native American women, a man who assaults and preys on women has violated community trust and loses legitimacy to be a voice for the community.
And in threatening the career prospects of Native women writers, Alexie made subjugation the bar Native women would have to clear to be heard. Not all the allegations concerning Alexie brought forward by Native women writers involve sexual harassment or assault. In interviews given to YES! This included mention of an interview he gave in the Winter issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures , where he was asked about other Native American writers.
Midge, Lakota, told YES! Media how hurt she was by these remarks, and members of the Native American literary world repeatedly brought this incident up as one of many examples of how Alexie used his platform for decades to belittle Native American writers and potentially stifle their access to the White publishing world, effectively acting as a gatekeeper. For the remainder of the conference, she said, he was aggressive, for example, calling her stuck up in front of other authors.
Was this just a bit of ordinary rough-and-tumble professional rivalry? I woke up after a tremendous bender, and the acceptance for my first book of poems was in the mailbox. Luscombe probed further, asking Alexie whether his father, a brilliant young man who was periodically homeless and died of alcoholism, had had early success like his son might his life taken a different turn?
Alexie agreed. Yes, that would have made all the difference to him.
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