Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction Iñupiaq Together they sit underneath the

Together they sit underneath the family’s cottonwood tree

Treuer has orchestrated a moving account of kinship and survival

human faces and animal forms

who lived across Lakes Michigan and Huron

And in a dramatic photo spread

Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction Iñupiaq Together they sit underneath theScience fiction often operates as either an extended metaphor for human relationships or as a genuine attempt to encounter the alien Other. Both types of stories tend to rehearse the processes of colonialism, in which a sympathetic protagonist encounters and tames the unknown. Despite this logic, Native American writers have claimed the genre as a productive space in which they can critique historical colonialism and reassert the value of Indigenous