Passing Through a Prairie Country

Passing Through a Prairie CountryA darkly humorous thriller about the ghosts that haunt the temples of excess we call casinos, and the people caught in their high stakes, low odds web. For decades, a dark force has terrorized the Languille Lake reservation. Spoken of only in whispers as "the sandman," he lurks in the Hidden Atlantis Lake Resort and Casino, the reservation's main attraction and source of revenue, leeching its patrons' dreams and preventing the ghosts that linger there

but was educated in mainstream America

Whitt breaks new ground by showing how the confinement of Indigenous people across interlocking institutional sites helped concretize networks of white racial power--a regime that Native nations and communities continue to negotiate and actively resist today

yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now

No other book before has so thoroughly related the broad history of Indian slavery in the Americas

and the mysterious

At eighteen Abe left the reservation where he was raised and never looked back

Master storyteller and bestselling author Richard Van Camp writes of the power of storytelling and its potential to transform both the speaker and the audience in Gather

had worked with Samuel and Gideon Pond and Dr

The horses were small

ecosystem collapse from near-extinction of bison

the essays discuss significant confluences in selected examples of these religious traditions and foodways

and inspire hope along the way