Where the Dead Sit Talking Mi'kmaw and social systems that are

and social systems that are adapted and developed within the framework of traditional philosophies and principles

Catherine Richardson & Kate Elliott

Christina Birdsall-Jones

The Indian Specific Claims Commission

tribal judge

Where the Dead Sit Talking Mi'kmaw and social systems that areWhere the Dead Sit Talking is a novel by Brandon Hobson, an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma. In this novel, with his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen year old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his mothers years of substance abuse, Sequoyah keeps mostly to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface. At least until he meets