Bigler combines traditional di’ile (Euchee tales)

an eighty-year-old Lakota woman living in a log cabin with no running water

a nation whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bodies like hers and the people she loves: "I am doing my best to not become a museum / of myself

and rarely seen in contemporary poetics

Dani’s schoolmates think it’s silly to think that Earth gives us presents

The Hawk Shadow Dene Bigler combines traditional di’ile (EucheeA pitch perfect story about sibling bonds and Anishinaabe cultural traditions, from the bestselling author of SkySisters. Serenity is following her brother, Big Ed, to his fishing spot on Hawk River. Big Ed explains that the river is named for the Hawk, Gekek, the Keepers of the river and their Protectors. "They see things far off in the distance, things we can't," he tells Serenity. Later, when Big Ed gets in trouble while fishing, Serenity follows