"Cannupa Hanska Luger has created a wondrous book of survivance, a story to carry in pocket and study at every opportunity. At once a dystopia (earth is near destroyed) and a postcolonial fantasy (the colonizers abandon the planet for good), SURVIVA is a work of artistic brilliance that draws our attention to the simultaneity of ruins and futures. Rich with dreampower and evocation, these pages illustrate the mysteries of space-time, the dissolution of boundaries, and the relational universe described by Indigenous quantum mechanics. Read carefully, SURVIVA has the power to bend time itself, lifting us from past and present into futures innumerable."
--Philip J. Deloria, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University and author of Playing Indian

"SURVIVA offers Indigenous wisdom for a shared future built on ancestral knowledge in radical relation. This is a survival guide like none other."
--Candice Hopkins, curator of the Forge Project

"SURVIVA is not just another riff on a sci-fi depiction of some imagined future. Luger's poetic and visual interventions are clear directives for all of us to ready our minds, bodies, and spirits as we continue to move through the future together."
--Jeffrey Gibson, artist and editor of An Indigenous Present

"SURVIVA boldly reimagines our conceptions of time and history, challenging our collective narratives and pushing us to rethink the art of survival through a lens of transformation."
--Hank Willis Thomas, artist and cofounder of For Freedoms

"Cannupa Hanska Luger is a mad genius able to weave parables from tomorrow with lessons from yesterday into a stunningly prescient and wise field guide you should read right now. This is not a book. This is a time machine."
--Jordan Klepper, The Daily Show, Comedy Central

"SURVIVA feels everlasting and also like it will self-destruct after you read it."
--Sterlin Harjo, filmmaker, Reservation Dogs (Hulu/FX)

"A hybrid work from a plain 1970s field guide found in an army surplus store, Luger transforms the book through unexpected redacting, speculative fiction, and informative and artistic line drawing."
--Sandra Hale Schulman, ICT News

"Interdisciplinary Native American artist Luger delivers a daring work of speculative fiction set in a future in which the wealthy and non-Indigenous have fled the Earth they ravaged."
--Publishers Weekly

"SURVIVA provides text with new and old Indigenous lessons intermingled, while time is wonky and permeable, and the world must be rebirthed, or re-membered in a postcolonial way. This is a message from both our future and past ancestors. The thread is one and the same."
--Soph Myers-Kelley, Graphic Medicine

Publisher: Aora

Pub date: 2025-09-02

Length: 162 pages