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Waiting for the long night moon stories

Stories of Indigenous experiences across time, from early European contact to modern water-rights activism, depicting resilience through characters like a residential school survivor, a water protector, and a young dancer, all revealing strength and dignity amid systemic hardships.

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Main Author: Peters, Amanda (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Catapult, 2025.
Edition:First Catapult edition.
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Indigenous peoples > America > Fiction.
Resilience (Personality trait) > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Short stories.
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Summary:Stories of Indigenous experiences across time, from early European contact to modern water-rights activism, depicting resilience through characters like a residential school survivor, a water protector, and a young dancer, all revealing strength and dignity amid systemic hardships.
Physical Description:237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:9781646222599
1646222598
Author Notes:AMANDA PETERS is a writer of Mi'kmaq and settler ancestry. Her debut novel, The Berry Pickers , was the winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, and was a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Amazon First Novel Award. Peters is a graduate of the master of fine arts program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and has a certificate in creative writing from the University of Toronto. She lives and writes in the Annapolis Valley Nova Scotia where she is an Associate Professor in English and Theatre at Acadia University.

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