Embers is perhaps Richard Wagamese's most personal volume to date

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

and land—an affirmation that colonialism and capitalism must be overturned for this planet to be habitable for human and other-than-human relatives to live dignified lives

The words of Russell Means

make their own local terms so thoroughly ours

The Forever Sky mental health Embers is perhaps Richard Wagamese's"Nooko's spirit is there in the stars," says Niigaanii to his younger brother, Bineshiinh, as they sprawl in a meadow, gazing skyward. "Uncle said when Nooko's spirit left this world it went there." Nooko was their grandmother, and they miss her. But Uncle helps them find comfort in the night sky, where all the stars have stories. Indeed, there are so many stars and so many stories that the boys spend night after night observing and sharing, making