Week Three: Mississippi G-ddamn

Trethewey discussed her collection, Native Guard, on the PBS news hour in 2007.  You can listen to that here, or you can read the transcript on the same site:  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment-jan-june07-trethewey_04-25/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment-jan-june07-trethewey_04-25/

For more about the Native Guard itself:  http://www.nps.gov/guis/historyculture/louisiana-native-guard-in-the-civil-war.htmhttp://www.nps.gov/guis/historyculture/louisiana-native-guard-in-the-civil-war.htm