The book draws on interviews with people from different North American Indigenous cultures and communities

The editor

full of migrations

In a voice that resonates with insight and humor

opportunistic Trickster soon discovers that he too has lost his people

Bird Songs Don't Lie: Writings from the Rez science The book draws on interviewsEssays and short stories from a celebrated Cupeo Cahuilla journalist. "Johnson is by turns tender and hilarious as ever. This book is a welcome addition to his loving history of the world as he knows it." Susan Straight, author of Sacrament In this moving collection of short stories and essays, Gordon Lee Johnson (Cupeo Cahuilla) cements his voice not only as a commentator on American Indian reservation life but also as a master of fiction writing.