native studies

and potential future for the region for both natives and non-natives

told by a chorus of vividly realized

an eighty-year-old Lakota woman living in a log cabin with no running water

a nation whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bodies like hers and the people she loves: "I am doing my best to not become a museum / of myself

The Hawk Shadow Dene native studiesA pitch perfect story about sibling bonds and Anishinaabe cultural traditions, from the bestselling author of SkySisters. Serenity is following her brother, Big Ed, to his fishing spot on Hawk River. Big Ed explains that the river is named for the Hawk, Gekek, the Keepers of the river and their Protectors. "They see things far off in the distance, things we can't," he tells Serenity. Later, when Big Ed gets in trouble while fishing, Serenity follows