A Council of Dolls

A Council of DollsThe long awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day. From the mid century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories of

Helen Hunt Jackson's 1881 publication

male and female

and offer insights into both traditional and contemporary Native life in southeast Alaska

WHO IS NAPI

and peers--among them Jackson Browne

Each story is accompanied by strikingly beautiful illustrations by revered Indigenous artists Isaac Murdoch and Christi Belcourt

suggesting that even as such views continued in American popular culture

Lana and her cousin Lori are like sisters

and even what they should look like

Robertson's national bestseller to life in full colour

and connected to Ojibwe spaces continues to envelop myriad cultures and peoples

The Cottonwood Sings is the delightful story of the lovely Hunku (First Woman)