protect communities from natural disasters

author of Whereas

a deep spiritual life

Shoshone in the Great Basin

whose publications include 3 books and more than 60 appearances in anthologies and journals

Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country rice protect communities from natural disastersThe gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving itan 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 When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison