This is the story of a young Métis woman's quest to solve a family mystery over 150 years old. Rejecting her Métis culture, she thought her home was in the Marine Corps until she was forced to leave. Now her journey will take her across North Dakota in search of a long-forgotten battlefield and the site of a desperate Métis stand against overwhelming hostile forces. Will a hidden gravesite here help her find peace and save her brother? This novel is based on actual events that occurred near North Dakota's Dog Den Butte.

Glissant has written extensively in French about the colonial experience in the Caribbean. Britton (French, Aberdeen U., Scotland) situates Glissant within ongoing debates in postcolonial theory, making connections between his novels and theoretical work and the work of Frantz Fanon, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhanha, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Focusing on language and subjectivity, discussion moves between analysis of Glissant's theoretical work and detailed readings of his novels. Major themes central to his writing, such as the reappropriation of history, standard and vernacular language, and the colonial construction of the Other, are addressed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR