Spirits Do Not Rest

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Spirits Do Not Rest: Heartbreak at Wounded Knee.</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> When twenty-two-year-old Lauder Ellison finds herself about to be exposed for plagiarism in a national magazine she flees her teaching position in Omaha for a small Lakota day school on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The year is 1890 and people are fleeing the area due to rumors of Sioux uprisings and Ghost Dancing both of which have resulted in a massive buildup of army troops. Newspapers across the country are fomenting prejudice and fear. The country waits for war. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lauder finds sanctuary and love amongst the Lakota especially the starving children in her classroom and a man trying desperately to save the children from being torn from their families and shipped across the U.S. to Indian boarding schools. No one imagines the horror rising on the cusp. </span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Spirits Do Not Rest</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> explores greed death and the power of love and forgiveness during one of our nation's darkest chapters. The novel also examines the far-reaching roots of injustice and pays tribute to people who having lived through unspeakable grief gather the courage to rise from the ashes and forge a future for their children and grandchildren.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Margaret Lukas' </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Spirits Do Not Rest</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a re-telling of the Wounded Knee massacre in which over 350 Miniconjou </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Hunkpapa were brutally murdered. The novel pays tribute to endurance self-compassion and the heart's search for home.</span></p><p></p>