"A Borzoi book."

"A stunning narrative from one of the most powerful young writers at work today and the director of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Sugarcane, We Survived the Night interweaves oral history with hard-hitting journalism and a deeply personal father-son journey into a searing portrait of Indigenous survival, love, and resurgence."--Dust jacket flap

In the beginning

The first day: Coyote and his son. Fate hunts the red man down -- Indian names -- Through the eyes of Little Crow -- Custer died for your sins -- The fourth world -- Sky Woman -- Crazy Horse medicine -- Silent thunder -- The second day: Coyote steals the salmon. General theories of Indian relativity -- Lost colonists -- Indian Acts -- Exodus -- Red Herring -- The third day: Coyote comes back. The drifters -- The father, the son, and Coyote's ghost -- Hereditary chiefs -- Indian in the cabinet -- Ghost of the enemy -- The sovereign -- Esk'etology --

The fourth day.

In the end