Winter Counts

Winter Counts"Winter Counts is both a propulsive crime novel and a wonderfully informative book. David Heska Wanbli Weiden has written the first of what I hope is a series of books about life on Rosebud Reservation. Virgil Wounded Horse, his nephew Nathan, and Marie Short Bear are more than characters; they brim with intrigue and authentic life." Louise Erdrich "Winter Counts is a marvel. It's a thriller with a beating heart and jagged teeth. This book is a

from coast to coast and beyond

who has spent time in the Arctic and whose deep appreciation for its subtle beauty shines through her art

Ghost Dance adherents were in fact seeking new ways to survive

anthropologists

remains an authoritative source for the tribal history

then spent most of his adult life as a missionary on the Santee Reservation in northeastern Nebraska

In this transcendent memoir

she never thought she'd be in Congress

broken treaties

and takes her far from her native Montana plains to his own Minneapolis home

including heteropatriarchy

solid figures gaze squarely out of the frame