![]() ![]() In Stephen Graham Jones’ new novel, “The Only Good Indians,” which is already a bestseller in its first week of release and is garnering comparisons to Jordan Peele’s horror film “Get Out” as a cultural touchstone, four young Blackfeet men pay a terrible price when they hunt on land reserved for the community’s elders. ![]() Dig deeper, though, and you’ll uncover a trove of themes and collective fears unique to the Indigenous experience in North America. Indigenous people are hunted down for their bone marrow in a dystopian future (“The Marrow Thieves”) and an Inuit shaman faces off against a ravenous black wolf with red eyes (“Those Who Run in the Sky”).įour very different novels from four very different authors, all drawing upon tropes and storylines familiar to horror and dystopian fiction fans everywhere. A mysterious power outage plunges an isolated Anishnaabe community into a violent power struggle (“Moon of the Crusted Snow”). Four Blackfeet men are stalked by the vengeful spirit of an elk they slaughtered 20 years earlier (“The Only Good Indians”). ![]()
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