Treat Them as Buffalo

Treat Them as BuffaloAn electrifying anti Western from an exciting new Indigenous writer. As teenage boys begin to disappear from a great plains Mtis community, a young man attempts to uncover the evil force lurking out of sight. In 1885, Nikosis "Niko" Eriksen spends his days playing buffalo hunter, even though it's been many years since a member of his tribe has actually seen one of the once ubiquitous animals. But when beloved Cousin goes missing, things start to fall

Akiwenzie-Damm's afterword speaks to the relations and obligations Indigenous peoples have to one another and their other-than-human kin

not all is what it seems

"Of The Sun is a loving homage to the Indigenous peoples of this land--both in González's beautiful

Becoming Little Shell is a testament to the power of storytelling

and his own

But when beloved Cousin goes missing

and just climate futures

transracial adoptees

he is immediately confronted by a terrifying eagle god named Savik

where all of these things were taken away

the trauma they endured during their years at the Mission

Oscillating between musical influences