A Grandmother Begins the Story event How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophy

How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance state

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A Grandmother Begins the Story event How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophyAward winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story of the unrivaled desire for healing and the power of familial bonds across five generations of Mtis women and the land and bison that surround them. Written like a crooked Mtis jig, A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women and bison as they reach for the stories that could remake their worlds and rebuild their futures. Carter is a