A Council of Dolls sovereignty practiced the old ways

practiced the old ways

Mihesuah explores how modern American Indigenous women have empowered themselves tribally

Just when they start to feel at home

Smith brings a startling urgency to these poems

A Council of Dolls sovereignty practiced the old waysThe long awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day. 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