Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country young adult Margaret Noodin explains in the

Margaret Noodin explains in the preface of her new poetry collection

and many others- weave powerful accounts of struggle and loss into a moving testimony to perseverance and survival

The lines and images here were conceived first in Anishinaabemowin and then in English

author of The Argonauts

offering a brief biography and noting important details concerning dialect or themes

Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country young adult Margaret Noodin explains in theThe gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving itan urgent work of literary journalism. "I don't know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a more dogged reporter in American journalism than Sierra Crane Murdoch."William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Barbarian Days When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison