the clan and extended family system

and nonfiction prose

Deerchild illustrates the disruptive and devastating impacts of the residential school system on generations of families while also celebrating the life and culture of her mother and other survivors

A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy

and the insincerities of the academy when it comes to acknowledging Indigenous peoples

Indigenous Inhumanities: California Indian Studies After the Apocalypse writing the clan and extended familyMark Minch de Leon explores the anticolonial dimensions of California Indian intellectual and cultural resurgence in the aftermath of apocalypse in this compelling reexamination of Indigenous art, literature, and theory. Centering on a reinterpretation of the Ghost Dance, a ceremony first practiced in the nineteenth century, as a collective demonstration of prophecy and resilience, Indigenous Inhumanities envisions an expanded poetics of resistance