TallBear notes that ideas about racial science

"Jake Skeets writes with such sparse yet full beauty

not just human beings

Although historians have written full-length studies about each of these episodes

for two women at the sacred fire

Gardens in the Dunes Muscogee (Creek) TallBear notes that ideas aboutA sweeping, multifaceted tale of a young Native American pulled between the cherished traditions of a heritage on the brink of extinction and an encroaching white culture, Gardens in the Dunes is the powerful story of one womans quest to reconcile two worlds that are diametrically opposed. At the center of this struggle is Indigo, who is ripped from her tribe, the Sand Lizard people, by white soldiers who destroy her home and family. Placed in a