Winner of the 2018 Minnesota Book Award for poetry

and goading him into a destructive

Stephen Graham Jones now takes us to Montana

had laid claim to 160 acres in a virgin maple grove in Minnesota

The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as My Blackfeet Elders Told It spirituality Winner of the 2018 MinnesotaAt the age of sixty seven, Percy Bullchild (1915 1986), a Blackfeet Indian from Browning, Montana, with little formal education in English, set out to put the oral traditions and history of his people into a permanent written record. He regarded this undertakingto "write the Indian version of our own true ways in our history and legends," as he puts itas both a corrective and an instructive tool. Bullchild culled this remarkable collection of