The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories Potawatomi The Death of Sitting Bear

The Death of Sitting Bear evokes the essence of human experience and speaks to us all

When much of the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020

she returned to the reservation to find a new challenge

adapted for young adults from the adult nonfiction book of the same name

but Betsy recalls the words her father spoke to her at Sugar Falls--words that give her the resilience

The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories Potawatomi The Death of Sitting BearIn The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories, Stacie Denetsosie confronts long reaching effects of settler colonialism on Native lives in a series of gritty, wildly imaginative stories. A young Navajo man catches a ride home alongside a casket he's sure contains his dead grandfather. A gas station clerk witnesses the kidnapping of the newly crowned Miss Northwestern Arizona. A young couple's search for a sperm donor raises questions of blood quantum.