Eddie’s life is governed by the decisions of the adults around him

becomes filled with colorful flowers

and through it all

Beautifully illustrated by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley

this collection is a powerful and important expression of imagination rooted in social critique

All My Relatives: Exploring Lakota Ontology, Belief, and Ritual creation stories Eddie’s life is governed byIn All My Relatives David C. Posthumus offers the first revisionist history of the Lakotas' religion and culture in a generation. He applies key insights from what has been called the "ontological turn," particularly the dual notions of interiority soul spirit and physicality body and an extended notion of personhood, as proposed by A. Irving Hallowell and Philippe Descola, which includes humans as well as nonhumans. All My Relatives demonstrates how