Where the Dead Sit Talking drum and writing about Indigenous art

and writing about Indigenous art

altering the course of Native and American history

a Nez Perce-Cayuse family is torn apart as they debate the fate of ancestral remains in a moving revision of the Greek tragedy Antigone

Sister Nations also includes full biographies of all the contributors

Where the Dead Sit Talking drum and writing about Indigenous art2018 National Book Award Fiction Finalist. Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, Where the Dead Sit Talking is a stunning and lyrical Native American coming of age story. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen year old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his mother's years of substance abuse, Sequoyah keeps mostly to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep