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The Only Good Indians
The Only Good Indians is a 2020 horror novel by Stephen Graham Jones. It was written during a stay at a rented house in Colorado. It was first published on July 14, 2020, through Saga Press and Titan Books.
The novel centers on four members of the Blackfeet Nation, half of which have left their reservation. Ten years prior, the group pursued a herd of elk in the elder's section of the reservation. After the accidental killing of a pregnant elk and its fetus, they are hunted by the elk's vengeful spirit. After they are successfully killed, the elk's vendetta is redirected towards Denorah, the daughter of one of the four men, who must confront a past she was uninvolved in. The novel explores themes of culture, violence, and womanhood.
Prologue
A Blackfeet man named Ricky, who long ago fled his reservation and now works in North Dakota, leaves a bar and finds an elk stumbling into several cars in the parking lot, damaging them. Ricky is caught outside with the damaged cars by the white bar-goers, and chased by them into a field, where he sees the reflections of the eyes of a herd of elk. Ricky is beaten to death.
The House That Ran Red
Lewis, one of Ricky's childhood friends, has likewise moved off their reservation and married a white woman named Peta. One night, while fixing an overhead fan light, Lewis sees the image of a dead elk on the floor below and almost falls to his death, saved by Peta at the last moment. To Peta and his coworker Shaney, a Crow woman, Lewis shamefully recounts an incident in his adolescence, where Lewis, Ricky, and their friends Gabe and Cass pursued a herd of elk into the elders' section of the reservation, where they were not legally or traditionally allowed to hunt, and shot many unsuspecting elk. Lewis is disturbed that one of the shot elk, a young female, has not died, and shoots her several more times before discovering that she is pregnant. After burying the fetus, he commits to using every portion of the mother elk and giving her meat away to the elders, but the four are stopped at their truck by the game warden and forced to dispose of the elk.
Lewis and Peta's dog is found hanged by its tether in an apparent accident, still alive. They try to nurse the dog back to health, but find the dog brutally stomped to death one morning by someone wearing a pair of boots they keep in their garage. Plagued by paranoia that the elk from his adolescence has returned for revenge, Lewis becomes suspicious of Shaney's behavior, and is convinced she is the embodiment of the elk spirit. He invites her over and engineers an accident with his motorcycle that brutally kills her. Peta returns home, oblivious, and goes to fix the ceiling fan light. Lewis startles her, causing her to fall and fatally hit her head. He pulls both women's teeth to look for ivory as proof that they are elk, and, noticing that Peta appears to be pregnant, cuts her open. An elk calf emerges from her body. Lewis takes the calf and goes on the run, hoping to return it to the reservation and end the curse, but is shot to death by police before he can make it there. The elk spirit, seeking to avenge the deaths of her and her calf at the hands of Lewis and his friends, slips away and assumes a rapidly aging human form. Now looking like a teenage girl, she hitchhikes her way to the reservation.
Sweat Lodge Massacre
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The Only Good Indians
The Only Good Indians is a 2020 horror novel by Stephen Graham Jones. It was written during a stay at a rented house in Colorado. It was first published on July 14, 2020, through Saga Press and Titan Books.
The novel centers on four members of the Blackfeet Nation, half of which have left their reservation. Ten years prior, the group pursued a herd of elk in the elder's section of the reservation. After the accidental killing of a pregnant elk and its fetus, they are hunted by the elk's vengeful spirit. After they are successfully killed, the elk's vendetta is redirected towards Denorah, the daughter of one of the four men, who must confront a past she was uninvolved in. The novel explores themes of culture, violence, and womanhood.
Prologue
A Blackfeet man named Ricky, who long ago fled his reservation and now works in North Dakota, leaves a bar and finds an elk stumbling into several cars in the parking lot, damaging them. Ricky is caught outside with the damaged cars by the white bar-goers, and chased by them into a field, where he sees the reflections of the eyes of a herd of elk. Ricky is beaten to death.
The House That Ran Red
Lewis, one of Ricky's childhood friends, has likewise moved off their reservation and married a white woman named Peta. One night, while fixing an overhead fan light, Lewis sees the image of a dead elk on the floor below and almost falls to his death, saved by Peta at the last moment. To Peta and his coworker Shaney, a Crow woman, Lewis shamefully recounts an incident in his adolescence, where Lewis, Ricky, and their friends Gabe and Cass pursued a herd of elk into the elders' section of the reservation, where they were not legally or traditionally allowed to hunt, and shot many unsuspecting elk. Lewis is disturbed that one of the shot elk, a young female, has not died, and shoots her several more times before discovering that she is pregnant. After burying the fetus, he commits to using every portion of the mother elk and giving her meat away to the elders, but the four are stopped at their truck by the game warden and forced to dispose of the elk.
Lewis and Peta's dog is found hanged by its tether in an apparent accident, still alive. They try to nurse the dog back to health, but find the dog brutally stomped to death one morning by someone wearing a pair of boots they keep in their garage. Plagued by paranoia that the elk from his adolescence has returned for revenge, Lewis becomes suspicious of Shaney's behavior, and is convinced she is the embodiment of the elk spirit. He invites her over and engineers an accident with his motorcycle that brutally kills her. Peta returns home, oblivious, and goes to fix the ceiling fan light. Lewis startles her, causing her to fall and fatally hit her head. He pulls both women's teeth to look for ivory as proof that they are elk, and, noticing that Peta appears to be pregnant, cuts her open. An elk calf emerges from her body. Lewis takes the calf and goes on the run, hoping to return it to the reservation and end the curse, but is shot to death by police before he can make it there. The elk spirit, seeking to avenge the deaths of her and her calf at the hands of Lewis and his friends, slips away and assumes a rapidly aging human form. Now looking like a teenage girl, she hitchhikes her way to the reservation.
Sweat Lodge Massacre