” Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder their sadness and pain without giving up on the future

Readers will feel the reality of that wonder and awe—and the cold of that South Dakota winter—through the gentle ferocity of his words

spearfishers

his beloved since infancy

Native Foodways: Indigenous North American Religious Traditions and Foods Oji-Cree ” Belcourt issues a callNative Foodways is the first scholarly collection of essays devoted exclusively to the interplay of Indigenous religious traditions and foodways in North America. Drawing on diverse methodologies, the essays discuss significant confluences in selected examples of these religious traditions and foodways, providing rich individual case studies informed by relevant historical, ethnographic, and comparative data. Many of the essays demonstrate how