Along Journey River
Several sacred artefacts have gone missing from the Minnesota Red Earth Reservation and the suspect list is continuously growing. While it could be the racists from the bordering town, or a young man struggling with problems at home, or the county coroner and his cronies, the need for answers and apprehending the culprit is amplified when Jed Morriseau, the Tribal Chairman, is murdered.
Investigating these mysterious occurrences because of tribal traditions and the honour of her family, Renee LaRoche works to track down the people responsible. But can she maintain her intense investigation as well as her new relationship with Samantha Salisbury, the visiting women’s studies professor at the white college nearby? Renee is caught between the traditions of her tribe and efforts to help her chimook lover accept their cultural differences.
Published for the first time in the UK, Dead Ink brings you Carole laFavor’s mysteries, Along the Journey River and Evil Dead Center.
Carole laFavor (1948–2011) was a Two-Spirit Ojibwa novelist and activist who lived and worked in Minnesota. She was a member of the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS in the 1990s and worked with organizations that supported Native American people with HIV/AIDS.
Carole laFavor
LaFavor was an Ojibwe novelist, Native American rights activist and nurse, born in Minnesota in 1974 and identified as two-spirit and lesbian. Known for HIV/AIDS activism.
