"We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything we'd been doing all along to get us here. There will be death and playing dead, there will be screams and unbearable silences, forever-silences, and a kind of time-travel, at the moment the gunshots start, when we look around and see ourselves as we are, in our regalia, and something in our blood will recoil...

A vigilante enforcer on South Dakota's Rosebud Indian Reservation enlists the help of his ex to investigate the activities of an expanding drug cartel, while a new tribal council initiative raises controversial questions.

There There: A novel by Tommy Orange: Conversation Starters There There is the New York Times bestselling book of author Tommy Orange. This groundbreaking book poses the question, "What does it really mean to be an Indian? A native American? American Indian?" There There follows a unique case of teenagers and elders who ask this question in light of the complexity of the modern world. Orange's characters live in the urban Oakland, California. This...