TW for outdated oppressive language, sexual violence, police reverence, white dude writing about the experience of indigenous people. What I liked most about this book were the descriptions of landscapes and nature, the sentience and personhood ascribed to animals, and the tenderness of the relationships between the people of Mink River. What I did not enjoy was the authors deep love of lists and synonyms. We get it, there are many ways to say the same thing. CAN YOU PLEASE STOP?! Also deeply did not enjoy the perfect hero cop narrative. No thanks. There was so much gender essentialism, which I found to be entirely grating. Although there were parts of this story that I enjoyed, I was not sad when this book ended.