A Council of Dolls : A Novel (HC) Dene and corporations gave themselves privileges

and corporations gave themselves privileges of ownership with no regard to the Native claim and to the promise made to the Natives that they could live and hunt there "as long as the sun rises

and questioning current institutional practices

This innovative work combines fictional and non-fictional elements in a series of connected short stories that symbolize different ways of Anishinabek engagement with the world

economic development

the authors explain they are not just retelling these 9 traditional stories or legends

A Council of Dolls : A Novel (HC) Dene and corporations gave themselves privilegesMona Susan Power is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation. 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 the dolls they carried. Sissy, born 1961: Sissys relationship with her beautiful and volatile mother is difficult, even dangerous, but her life is