Author: Angeline Boulley

Was an education official for the Bureau of Indian Education and did not publish her first novel until she was in her fifties.Firekeeper's Daughter puts an unenrolled Ojibwe teenager into a federal drug investigation in her own community, and Boulley uses the thriller frame to write tribal enrolment politics, blood quantum and the jurisdictional gap that leaves Native women unprotected.She is a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and the book is set on the land she is from. It won the Printz and Netflix bought it. Warrior Girl Unearthed took on the repatriation of ancestral remains.