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Spirits Do Not Rest: Heartbreak at Wounded Knee. When twenty-two-year-old Lauder Ellison finds herself about to be...
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Spirits Do Not Rest: Heartbreak at Wounded Knee. When twenty-two-year-old Lauder Ellison finds herself about to be exposed for plagiarism in a national magazine, she flees her teaching position in Omaha for a small Lakota day school on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The year is 1890, and people are fleeing the area due to rumors of Sioux uprisings and Ghost Dancing, both of which have resulted in a massive buildup of army troops. Newspapers across the country are fomenting prejudice and fear. The country waits for war.
Lauder finds sanctuary and love amongst the Lakota, especially the starving children in her classroom and a man trying desperately to save the children from being torn from their families and shipped across the U.S. to Indian boarding schools. No one imagines the horror rising on the cusp.
Spirits Do Not Rest explores greed, death, and the power of love and forgiveness during one of our nation's darkest chapters. The novel also examines the far-reaching roots of injustice and pays tribute to people, who, having lived through unspeakable grief, gather the courage to rise from the ashes and forge a future for their children and grandchildren.
Margaret Lukas' Spirits Do Not Rest is a re-telling of the Wounded Knee massacre in which over 350 Miniconjou and Hunkpapa were brutally murdered. The novel pays tribute to endurance, self-compassion, and the heart's search for home.
Author: Margaret Lukas
Publisher: National League of American Pen Women
Published: 12/15/2025
Pages: 310
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781950251223
About the Author
Lukas, Margaret: - Margaret Lukas is a native of Nebraska. She received her MFA from Rainier Writers Workshop in Tacoma, Washington. For over a decade, she taught writing at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Her award-winning short story, "The Yellow Bird," was made into a short film, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival and was then shown at film festivals around the world. She is the author of Farthest House, 2015, BQB Press, River People 2019, BQB Press, and The Broken Statue, 2021, BQB Press. Spirits Do Not Rest: Heartbreak at Wounded Knee is her fourth novel. Lukas has won several awards, including a Nebraska Arts Council Fellowship Award, an International High Plains Book Award, and a National American Pen Women Literary Award for 2024. She is a long-standing member of the National Association of American Pen Women, Inc. and past president of the Omaha Branch. She lives in Omaha with her husband.
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