"With its combination of reportage and historical context

The Scalpel and the Silver Bear joins those few rare works

and the Seven Fires of the Ojibway

They take readers from the boarding school movement of the 1870s to the Sixties Scoop in Canada and the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in the United States

and History rejects both of these long-standing conventions by presenting case studies of Indigenous domestic servants

The Women's Warrior Society true crime "With its combination of reportageThe Womens Warrior Society is a remarkable gathering of characters and voices used to expose truths about Native American life. In tightly woven prose, Lois Beardslee tells stories about people from all over North America and from either side of the line between abused and abuser. Both individual and archetypal, Native and non Native, male and female, her characters take up arms against widely accepted stereotypes about Native people. The women