Where the Dead Sit Talking drum and writing about Indigenous art

and writing about Indigenous art

I am grateful for these words

Whereas early accounts treated the Ghost Dance as a military or political movement

Winona LaDuke

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