The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories Potawatomi When much of the world

When much of the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020

but Betsy recalls the words her father spoke to her at Sugar Falls--words that give her the resilience

Angelique worked as a domestic servant for a Riggs family friend

He discovers that he is a natural

from creation myth to this day

The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories Potawatomi When much of the worldIn The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories, Stacie Denetsosie confronts long reaching effects of settler colonialism on Native lives in a series of gritty, wildly imaginative stories. A young Navajo man catches a ride home alongside a casket he's sure contains his dead grandfather. A gas station clerk witnesses the kidnapping of the newly crowned Miss Northwestern Arizona. A young couple's search for a sperm donor raises questions of blood quantum.