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Joseph Lee on the Sprawlng Portrait of Aquinnah Wampanoag Identity at the Center of His New Book, Nothing More of This Land
The book chronicles Lee's own upbringing in Martha's Vineyard, as well considering what it means to be in community with other Indigenous individuals around the world. Here, he discusses the book, community sovereignty, taking inspiration from fellow Aquinnah Wampanoag author and historian Linda Coombs, learning the Wampanoag language as a child, and his favorite thing to do when he's back on Martha's Vineyard. This conversation has been edited and condensed.
Vogue: How does it feel to see the book out in the world?
Joseph Lee: I mean, the book being out is just really exciting. It's a little bit strange because, you know, you work on something for a long time and mostly by yourself, and then suddenly it's out in the world and people are reading it, and it's exciting and a little scary. Transitioning from just writing, where it's you and your laptop, to being out there talking about it and promoting it is great, but it's definitely a shift.
You dig so much into present history, including the origins of your own name. What did your research process look like?
It was pretty mixed, because I was using so many different types of sources. A lot of it was just talking to my parents or talking to cousins or going back through tribal meeting records, but [there was also some] looking through the local papers, or we have a tribal newsletter that goes out, and I've looked at a lot of those. I was also doing research online and interviewing people from other places. It was a really diverse research scope. It was just trying to gather as much as possible and [use] as many different sources as possible.
Are there books that you kind of feel helped your book exist?
I would say almost every book written by an Indigenous person before me. Actually, there's one from my own tribe, by Linda Coombs, and it's called Colonization and the Wampanoag Story. I'm not sure what the technical categorization is, but it's a book that has a lot of history as well as a creative retelling, imagining what life was like before colonization in our tribe. Those kinds of books helped me factually—the information in those books was useful to me—but it also helped me personally think about being a Wampanoag author, being a Native author, and putting something like this out into the world.
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