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A lyrical account of three generations of a Chippewa Indian family. Across 14 chapters, seven different narrators relate the particulars of the American Indian experience. 

A collection of essays on American Indian reservation life, being a woman, and family. Campbell Hale interweaves her own experiences within striking portraits of her relatives and ancestors.

This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo’s twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 with the takeover at Wounded Knee and the beginnings of the rejuvenation of indigenous cultures across the world.

A nonfiction piece acknowledging that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. It offers the role of Indigenous knowledge as an alternative or complementary approach to Western mainstream scientific methodologies.

Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a fellow young student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.

A memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and the frictions between mainstream American culture and Native inheritance, assimilation and reverence for tradition.

These wholly original and shiver-inducing tales introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, complex family legacies, desperate deeds, and chilling acts of revenge. The stories are a celebration of Indigenous peoples’ survival and imagination, and a glorious reveling in all the things an ill-advised whistle might summon.