Sivulliq: Ancestor

Sivulliq: AncestorIn the spring of 1893, arctic Alaska is devastated by smallpox. Kayaliruk knows it is time to light the funeral pyres and leave their home. With her surviving children, she packs their dog sled and they set off to find family. Kayaliruk wakes with a bleeding scalp and no memory of the last day. Her daughter was stolen by Yankee whalers, her sons say. They begin chasing the ship, through arctic storms, across immeasurable distances, slipping into the

When she passed away

Beardslee continues to break the mold and push the boundaries of contemporary Native American poetry and prose

Without dreams

Turner worked with descendants of Horse

Features an author's note and glossary

as if it doesn’t count somehow

but this tale of mice caught unaware is still satisfyingly scary

All of the contributors are coming to personal terms with a phrase that underpins the matrix of Diné culture: "Sa ah Naaghai Bik eh Hozh""o""o""n"

the wild and foraged ingredients

layered stories that capture both the simplicity and complexity of Native existence

the first section of the work explores how settler colonizers used the printing press and boarding schools to displace Oceti Sakowin women as traditional culture keepers and culture bearers with the goal of internally and externally colonizing the Dakota

and develop Ojibwe language courses across North America