Where the Dead Sit Talking drum I am grateful for these

I am grateful for these words

Winona LaDuke

altering the course of Native and American history

and writing about Indigenous art

Where the Dead Sit Talking drum I am grateful for these2018 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