After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery

transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota

clear-eyed collection of essays on what it means to be a proudly queer indigenous woman in the United States today

and the feeling of being loved by the universe and despised by everyone you've ever known

A letter to the reader from Julie Flett

Making Relatives of Them: Native Kinship, Politics, and Gender in the Great Lakes Country, 1790-1850 Oji-Cree After inadvertently starting rumors ofKinship, as an organizing principle, gives structure to communities and cultures and it can vary as widely as the social relationships organized in its name. Making Relatives of Them examines kinship among the Great Lakes Native nations in the eventful years of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, revealing how these Indigenous peoples' understanding of kinship, in complex relationship with concepts of gender, defined their social,