Sylvester Yellow Calf is a former reservation basketball star

Jones offers a nuanced and often biting look at the lives of Native peoples from the inside

and writer of Native American heritage

How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance state

Who Am I? Muscogee (Creek) Sylvester Yellow Calf is a"Who am I?" a young girl asks her mom as she snuggles close. "You are the fire that burns and the eagle that soars. You are the oak tree and the wild rose," says momma. Written from an Indigenous perspective, Who Am I? tells the story of how we are all connected to our ancestors, our past and future, and the Earth and how it is everyone's duty to fend off darkness, connect to the past, offer safety and shelter, and color the world with beauty. An Own