The characters face the crises in their lives in ways that are easily identifiable and not uncommon to Native people

That is who I was born and how I have lived

and experience many of the difficulties Indigenous kids often face in the city

which has for too long been dismissed as archaic folk knowledge from old oral cultures of interest only to academics and fetishists

Others work from a very different direction

Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel governance The characters face the crisesSanaaq is the intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the "qallunaat," the white people, in the mid nineteenth century. Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, and her daughter, Qumac, hunt seal, repair their kayak, and gather mussels under blue sea ice before the tide comes in. Theirs is a semi nomadic life on the edge of the ice where marriages are made and unmade, children are