INDIGENOUS VISIONS Chapbook

The INDIGENOUS VISIONS Chapbook was compiled and edited by author and curator Cliff Taylor in tandem with the Indigenous Visions art exhibition, which took place November and December 2025 at the Anita Gallery in Astoria, OR.

Additional editing and design by Liz Harris.
Book layout and design/production by Jakelen Diaz at IPRC.
All rights and permissions remain with individual authors.
No part of the book may be reprinted without permission.
For questions and inquiries please email theanitabuilding@gmail.com November 2025, YELLOWELECTRIC LLC.

In it's pages you will find twenty-nine pieces by eighteen poets and writers with twenty-nine different tribes represented between them.

Justín Haith 

Epiphany Couch 

Anthony Hudson 

Kristi Harrison 

Laura Da’  

Ruby Hansen Murray  

Nat Andreini 

Kariel K’iteix̱’ Galbraith  

Theodore Van Alst 

Rena Priest 

Pixie Lighthorse 

Kara Briggs 

Amanda Hawk

Felix Furby 

Addylen Threeiron 

Paige Pettibon  

Rodney Douglas  

Cliff Taylor

What does it mean to be Native?

In this Indigenous Visions chapbook–which we’ve created as the poetry and prose portion of our Indigenous Visions art show–an array of Native poets and writers have written pieces wherein they are living out their responses to that key question, approaching it head-on (in Pixie Light- horse’s micro-essay, she says, “To us, being Indian meant being together.”) or maybe letting it circle on the edges of their experience, allowing it all forms of presence and location in the story of their lives.

My curator’s aim for the art show and this chapbook was to as- semble a selection of voices and visions that together really expressed the multi-sidedness, layers, and vast spectrum of who we are as Native people today. I wanted to upend any ideas that our identities fit any shallow for- mulas on the one hand and and then I wanted to celebrate the boundless diversity and uncountable different kinds of Natives who are making their lives here in Oregon and the Greater Pacific Northwest on the other hand. As a Native who loves my people, and with Native love as the primary force behind Indigenous Visions, I wanted to curate a space and chapbook where creative, inspired PNW Natives could share their art, words, stories, culture, memories, imaginations, tribal beings, and souls in a way that empow- ered and welcomed a complete fullness of life and Native identity. In short, Indigenous Visions is where a bunch of really beautiful Natives get to be themselves and bless us all with their words and work.

-Cliff Taylor