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On August 4th, we premiered a Voice of Youth special, an audio collage letter addressed Dear Skin-Walker…
A full-blooded Navajo, our sixteen year old narrator finds she has exiled herself to the local juvenile detention facility, haunted by past regrets and a certain spirit that roams her native reservation – a half-animal, half-human creature her Grandmother calls a Skin-Walker.
She faces this tormented spirit and her own in a web of tales spun with smiles, gasps, and tears in our letter: Dear Skin-walker:
On August 4th, we premiered a Voice of Youth special, an audio collage letter addressed Dear Skin-Walker…
A full-blooded Navajo, our sixteen year old narrator finds she has exiled herself to the local juvenile detention facility, haunted by past regrets and a certain spirit that roams her native reservation – a half-animal, half-human creature her Grandmother calls a Skin-Walker.
She faces this tormented spirit and her own in a web of tales spun with smiles, gasps, and tears in our letter: Dear Skin-walker:
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On August 4th, we premiered a Voice of Youth special, an audio collage letter addressed Dear Skin-Walker… A full-blooded Navajo, our sixteen year old narrator finds she has exiled herself to the local juvenile detention facility, haunted by past regrets and a certain spirit that roams her native reservation – a half-animal, half-human creature her Grandmother calls a Skin-Walker. She faces this tormented spirit and her own in a web of tales spun with smiles, gasps, and tears in our letter: Dear Skin-walker:
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Review of Dear SkinwalkerFrom the first note of music, to the haunting quote at the end, ?Dear Skinwalker? is a magnificent piece of radio. This story is so different, that it?s difficult to describe. As the summary states, it?s a letter from a young Native American woman locked up in a detention center written to a spirit creature called Skinwalker. She talks about her troubles, fantasizes about the future, regrets her past, and muses on the wisdom a long-dead Indian chief. The writing is superb, at moments real and gritty, at others surreal and impressionistic. The story flows like a stream of consciousness--a collage of thoughts, sounds, and music that takes unforeseen turns, yet holds together for the most part; only once during a digression about a high school debate club did I feel lost. To experience this piece is to feel like you?ve penetrated the subconscious of this young woman, seen her dreams, and felt her anguish. Congratulations to KRCB and Voice of Youth. |
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Posted on September 01, 2008 at 07:25 AM | Permalink
Review of Dear Skinwalker
this piece was off the hook hahahahaha
naw this is ma piece i really like hearing it lets me know how far i've come and im very happy about that
Thank you again for letting me have this on air
lots of love and respect
LIL BEAR