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A novel called “Winter Counts”
Thursday, October 8, 2020
A new book of fiction, Winter Counts, is a novel about the Rosebud Indian Reservation by a lawyer, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, who lives in Denver and has joined the available list of books about the lawlessness on Indian lands, the corruption of tribal councils and the reclaiming of Indian identity.
What’s new about that?
What’s new is that its protagonist is a Lakota named Virgil Wounded Horse, caught up in an Indian world filled with losers and crooks, a man who becomes a reservation hood who believes all governments are corrupt and so he comes home to save his people from their own misery.

Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden. Harper Collins, 2020.
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Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is a retired Professor of Native Studies. She taught at Eastern Washington University and Arizona State University. She currently lives in the Black Hills of South Dakota. She has written 15 books in her field. One of her latest is Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya’s Earth, published by University of Illinois Press.
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