FLIC(K)S by Maggie Jaffe

Now available.

ISBN 978-1-890193-89-8
72 pages
5 3/8" x 8 3/8"
Trade paper edition

What are you working on? More importantly, what are you drinking?
The Shining as a Critique of Indian Genocide. Scotch.

Let's hear it. I'm all ears and scalp and-doubles?
Sure. Remember the Overlook?

Vaguely.
Aerial shot of the Overlook Hotel. Built on sacred Indian ground, which is why it's cursed. In 1909, Apaches and Navajos even attacked the hotel builders.

Most horror movies start with a curse.
Right, except the manager never mentions the curse to Jack during his job interview as caretaker. Anyway, it would be more accurate to say that Arapahos and Cheyenne were responsible for the attack. Retaliation for Sand Creek. But you know Hollywood. One war bonnet is as good as another.
The Overlook's a hodge-podge of Zuni and Hopi art as is.

What's Sand Creek?
In 1864, John Chivington, a Methodist Minister no less, lead his volunteer Militia into battle against the Cheyenne and Arapaho. Wasn't a battle as much as a slaughter. Lots of women and children's body parts taken as "trophies." It's well documented in the Congressional Reports-Massacre of Cheyenne, The Chivington Massacre and Sand Creek Massacre. No criminal charges filed for this mini-holocaust. Same old shit. Gold, greed and self-righteous cover-ups.

excerpt from the poem 'Red Rum' in Flic(k)s by Maggie Jaffe