Power

PowerThe novel opens on the night of an ominous storm. Omishto witnesses her Aunt Ama kill a panther an animal considered to be a sacred ancestor of the Taiga people. That single act will have profound consequences for Omishto. Suddenly, she is torn between her loyalties to her Westernized mother, who wants her to reject the ways of the tribe, and to Ama and her traditional people, for whom the killing of the panther takes on grave importance. But

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and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty

representative of an Indigenous delegation to the United Nations in Geneva

we are jarred into wondering how we make our own meanings when the present is so immediately confronted by the past (or vice versa)

loving evocation of people trying to survive with their personalities and traditions intact

On the stove's blue enamel door are raised letters

in flight from the devil and presumed long dead

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she and her family set off on a harrowing journey

gripping account

and beautifully

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