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The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories Potawatomi When much of the worldIn The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories, Stacie Denetsosie confronts long reaching effects of settler colonialism on Native lives in a series of gritty, wildly imaginative stories. A young Navajo man catches a ride home alongside a casket he's sure contains his dead grandfather. A gas station clerk witnesses the kidnapping of the newly crowned Miss Northwestern Arizona. A young couple's search for a sperm donor raises questions of blood quantum.