Stones Of Grease

<p><em>On a fog-bright river between kelp and rookery two houses learn to keep peace where law can be seen.</em></p><p>When a Wolf house matriarch-the <strong>Sigidimnak'</strong>-and a sea-side <strong>k'uuljaad</strong> agree to cool a generations-long border quarrel the work happens in public: witnesses fed first copper cooled with grease stones planted where water tells the truth. Across a year of fish runs and storms gunboat visits and fort rules a marriage is brokered captives are brought home and a bar-pole rises to mark the truce.</p><p>Told through speeches ceremonies and the quiet labor that keeps houses upright <strong>Stones of Grease</strong> is a slow-burn novel of matrilineal leadership repair and responsibility on the northern Northwest Coast in the mid-nineteenth century. It centers Indigenous law-in-public-where mistakes are corrected so people stay useful-and the rooms where art memory and governance live together.</p><p>This is a story of aunties and envoys of teaching canoes and grease trails of boys learning to keep powder behind words and of a community choosing work over noise.</p><p>Perfect for readers of layered historical fiction who want ceremony treated with care-and a coastline rendered with precision and respect.</p>