Where the Dead Sit Talking drum the son of an Ojibwe

the son of an Ojibwe woman

and writing about Indigenous art

Winona LaDuke

altering the course of Native and American history

“The heart of haiku is a tease of nature

Where the Dead Sit Talking drum the son of an Ojibwe2018 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