The Beadworkers

The BeadworkersBeth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world. Told with humor, subtlety, and spareness, the mixed genre works of Beth Piatote's first collection find unifying themes in the strength of kinship, the pulse of longing, and the language of return. A woman teaches

face off with bullies

Illuminating the loves and lives

The Lakota Indians made their home in the majestic Black Hills mountain range during the last millennium

his dismay at the condition of his people may well have served as a catalyst for the writing of this book

"When the son of two Mexican immigrants hears about the Peace and Dignity Journeys—'epic marathons meant to renew cultural connections across North America'—he's compelled enough to drop out of college and sign up for one

Balinese shamanism

Moving between cycles of alliance and competition

he provides a new model for our everyday lives

recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonization between the nation-state and Indigenous nations in North America

the high school "tramp

day/break reveals the often-unseen other worlds of trans life

In Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country