He befriends a silent but amiable toad called Ami, an observant hawk named Brightest, and two very energetic coyote sisters, Reign and Risk. In the Reflecting World, Oli, a cottonmouth snake person, is thrust into the world to live on his own. As Nina grows up, she struggles to translate the story, while also building a following telling her own stories on a popular app. The story begins with Nina’s Great-Great Grandmother telling a story no one can understand. In her book Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction, she defined Indigenous futurism as encompassing the ‘‘narratives of biskaabiiyang, an Anishinaabemowin word connoting the process of ‘returning to ourselves,’ which involves discovering how personally one is affected by colonization, discarding the emotional and psychological baggage carried from its impact, and recovering ancestral traditions in order to adapt in our post-Native Apocalypse world.’’ That’s exactly where Little Badger’s exceptional sophomore novel sits. Dillon, an Anishinaabe professor and author. I’ve seen Darcie Little Badger’s A Snake Falls to Earth described as young-adult fantasy and young-adult science fiction, but it’s really young-adult Indigenous futurism.
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