When Stars Have Teeth

When Stars Have TeethBuffy Yellowbird knows exactly what she wants. She went to college, got her degree, moved to the city, and found a big girl job. Working at the San Francisco Urban Indian center is a dream come true except that it constantly fans the flames of anger stuck in her belly. Thanks to a non Native board, Buffy spends every day fighting for the community to have what they need. With each day at work as terrible as a Monday, Buffy doesn't have time for

and the importance of grieving those we love

while she tries to find a connection to her dead mother

"Honoring Elders presents a sophisticated

the collection rewrites and rerights what it means to be Indigenous

A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian

Insightful

spiritually

and futurity of Native American creative and intellectual production

this volume also holds out hope for the revitalization of Indigenous languages and traditional cultural values

or Joy Harjo’s elegant and fanciful "How to Get to Planet Venus

What he finds is the Great Snapping Turtle blocking the water of the Mother Spring

which are today more commonly known as Vancouver