The Divining Season

The Divining Season"Girls appear and disappear, but so do women. We know this because blood talks to blood." The town of Larissa, Texas, has secrets. Native girls are going missing, decades old conflicts are hiding just below the surface, and Emily Howard is speaking to her ancestors. At eleven years old, the peculiar Emily does not fit in. It might be her bizarre fear of doorways, or the strange illnesses that plague her, or the obvious fact that she is not a blood

and full-colour reproductions of beadwork from expert and emerging artists

her idea grows out of all she has been given by those who came before her

and comes to love her island home with all her heart

Time travel on the back of a wolverine

But he did not know that

Tommy Orange writes of the plight of the urban Native American

and inaccurate portrayals of Native cultures are extremely hurtful

Natalie Ball

and twenty-four archival photographs from the IAIA's nearly sixty-year history

profound changes occurred in the boarding school experiences as families turned to these institutions for relief during the Depression

a prickly gaag hiding in the bushes and a big

who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits