Episode 6: Sherman Alexie's "Crow Testament"

This episode discusses how Native American writer Sherman Alexie’s poem “Crow Testament” combines a Native American Trickster figure, Crow, with multiple Bible references, to narrate the history and aftermath of White European violence against indigenous Americans. Using the stories of Cain and Abel, the battle of Jericho, and the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, “Crow Testament” situates colonial violence within the larger story of human violence narrated in the Hebrew Bible and Christian Scriptures.