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Amanda Peters’s debut short-story collection spans Indigenous experiences across time and place, from first contact with European settlers to the forced removal of Indigenous children and the present-day struggle for clean water. The stories include a young man returning from residential school unable to communicate with his parents, a young woman finding purpose as a water protector, an old man reflecting on his life, and a girl preparing to dance at her first Mawi’omi.

With traditional storytelling and spare prose, Peters writes about the dignity of traditional ways of life, systemic racism, grief, and resilience. The collection includes “The Berry Pickers,” which inspired Peters’s novel of the same name, and “Pejipug (Winter Arrives),” an Indigenous Voices Award–nominated story. It may interest readers seeking Indigenous fiction, short stories, and writing that ranges across historical and contemporary experience.