02485cam a2200349 i 4500 560091437 TxAuBib 20220606120000.0 200203s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021351180 9781640094277 paperback 164009427X paperback (OCoLC)1138679049 TxAuBib rda Piatote, Beth H., 1966- Short stories Selections. The beadworkers : stories / Beth Piatote. First paperback edition. Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2020. 195 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Feast I -- Feast II -- Feast III -- The news of the day -- Fish wars -- Beading lesson -- wIndin! -- Rootless -- Falling crows -- Katydid -- Antíkoni. Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world. Told with humor, subtlety, and spareness, the mixed-genre works of Beth Piatote's first collection draw on Indigenous aesthetics and forms to offer a powerful, sustaining vision of Native life. A woman teaches her niece to make a pair of beaded earrings while ruminating on a fractured relationship. An eleven-year-old girl narrates the unfolding of the Fish Wars in the 1960s as her family is propelled to its front lines. In 1890, as tensions escalate at Wounded Knee, two young men at college--one French and the other Lakota--each contemplate a death in the family. In the final, haunting piece, a Nez Perce-Cayuse family is torn apart as they debate the fate of ancestral remains in a moving revision of the Greek tragedy Antigone. Formally inventive and filled with vibrant characters, The Beadworkers draws on Indigenous aesthetics and forms to offer a powerful, sustaining vision of Native life. -- Provided by publisher. 20220606. Short stories, American. Short stories, American. Short stories. Short stories.