The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it-an urgent work of literary journalism.
"I don't know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a more dogged reporter in American journalism than Sierra Crane Murdoch."-William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days
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When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by...
