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“Solar Sorms” by Linda Hogan

Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms chronicles the late teen years of a girl named Angel and her struggles to find her place within the world. Trying to learn where she got the scars on her face she returns back to her Native American tribe on a large lake called Adam’s Rib. While learning about the ‘ice woman’ the tribe refers to as her mother, she finds solace in the wife her father abandon to be with the ‘ice woman’. Soon the town is caught in a desperate struggle over water, dams, and their preservation of life. Four women set off alone in two canoes passing the devastation dams and pollution are causing on their home towards the towns directly surrounding the “white mens projects”. The fish are dying, the people have been sick for a long time from pesticides in the water, and this desperate journey leads them to Angel’s mother, Hannah. Once in the town Angel finds out her mothers horrible past, and how she torn into Angels face when she was a baby causing the scars. At the same time the tribe’s battle with the corporations continues.

The story puts into poetic words how inextricably tied to the land Indigenous peoples are, and how their struggle is not only a struggle to survive themselves but a struggle for the planet.