Old School Indian Oji-Cree with Black Sun

with Black Sun

debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful story about rage

and ethically participate in projects involving Indigenous Peoples

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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Old School Indian Oji-Cree with Black SunA coming of middle age novel about an Ahkweshsne man's reluctant return home and what it takes to heal. Abe Jacobs is Kanien'keh ka from Ahkweshsne or, as white people say, a Mohawk Indian from the Saint Regis Tribe. At eighteen Abe left the reservation where he was raised and never looked back. Now forty three, Abe is suffering from a rare disease one his doctors in Miami believe will kill him. Running from his diagnosis and a failing marriage, Abe