Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country

Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian CountryThe gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving itan urgent work of literary journalism. "I don't know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a more dogged reporter in American journalism than Sierra Crane Murdoch."William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Barbarian Days When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison

While each poem stands on its own

the electrifying proximity of the world of animals

the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal

It's also intended to convey how vital it is to become conscious of our own important role in our own natural world

arguably Erdrich's most accessible novel to date

On the stove's blue enamel door are raised letters

Tracing the experiences of John Grayeagle

one of the first Native students of linguistics and ethnography in the United States

and written in Anishinaabemowin

Jakaabes was a tiny boy who wore a coat made out of a bird skin and lived with his older sister

the narrative tension builds deliciously to the scene of the fleeing mice

She has a knack for creating humorous and endearing characters