Stan Rushworth

Stan Rushworth is a teacher of Native American Literature, and the author of Sam Woods: American Healing (Station Hill Press, New York 1992), Going to Water: The Journal of Beginning Rain (Talking Leaves Press, Freedom, CA 2014), and Diaspora’s Children (Hand To Hand Publishing, Topanga, CA 2020). His current publication is a collection of interviews done in collaboration with the journalist Dahr Jamail, We Are The Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices From Turtle Island On The Changing Earth (The New Press, New York 2022). As a tenured faculty emeritus, he taught Native American Literature at Cabrillo College for three decades, and currently works as an activist and advocate for Indigenous people as a teacher, writer and speaker. He is married, with two sons and one grandson.

We Are the Middle of Forever

Stan and journalist Dahr Jamail edited We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices From Turtle Island On the Changing Earth. Click the book cover below to read the publisher’s expanded description. Learning Right Relations holds an on-going book discussion group focusing on We Are the Middle of Forever . Inquire here

Watch the We Are the Middle of Forever book event! Stan Rushworth and Dahr Jamail hosted the April 24, 2022 LRR Gathering when contributors Ilarion Merculieff, Raquel Ramirez, and Gregg Castro expanded upon the content of their chapters in this unique book.

“This book proves what many already know to be true, but which many more need to hear: Indigenous people are the heroes of the climate justice movement. The contributors t—Melanie Yazzie, co-author of The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth — “These testimonies are exact, explicit, essential, clearly from the heart, articulate in their ways. When we finish reading and incorporating each word, we will know how to live. The path we are each called to walk will be clear.”
—Deena Metzger, author of *A Rain of Night Birds*

Good interview upon book’s release with Stan and Dahr. New Green Podcast:

Short Films, Book Readings and Interviews

Stan Rushworth’s Prayer for the Earth— a powerful introduction to Stan’s work, a call to face the genocide of 95-98% of all of Turtle Island’s native peoples, and a much needed reorientation to right relations between peoples and with all of life.

Stan Rushworth reads from his novel Going to the Water…

August 18, 2020, Viewer comment: “wise words and deep understanding of the human condition and the state of the world right now.”

"Storytelling, Blended Traditions, Descendants of the Imagination" Episode 11, Tzanakos productions 2016. Includes insights from “Going to Water.”

Stan’s Books

2020 Interview re:Diaspora's Children (KSQD, 58 mins)