The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories Potawatomi she returned to the reservation

she returned to the reservation to find a new challenge

Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot

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

When much of the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020

You will never be alone

The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories Potawatomi she returned to the reservationIn 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.