The Bone Picker: Native Stories, Alternate Histories Kiowa A tale of tempting honey

A tale of tempting honey and the dangers of rowdy behavior this is a story as timeless as it is sweet

Featuring a foreword from water advocate and Indigenous Rights Activist Autumn Peltier herself

and the Caribbean in scholarly essays

government created the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and extinguished Alaska Native aboriginal rights to hunting and fishing—forever changing the way Alaska Natives could be responsible for their way of life

Dylan McLaughlin

The Bone Picker: Native Stories, Alternate Histories Kiowa A tale of tempting honeyUnder the shadow of gray clouds, three children venture into the woods, where they spot the corpse of an old man on a scaffold. Suddenly a wild figure emerges, with long fingernails and tangled hair. It is the Hattak fullih nipi foni, the bone picker, who comes to tear off rotting flesh with his fingernails. Only the Choctaws who adhere to the old ways will speak of him. The frightening bone picker is just one of many entities, scary and mysterious,