The Ghost Collector Suicide This Place: 150 Years Retold

This Place: 150 Years Retold is a 296-page graphic novel anthology just released in April 2019 by Highwater Press

It is a welcome addition to the literature about a First Nation man who excelled as a soldier during World War 1 and as a community leader and political activist

including Helen Hoy

(Tlingit) who read and edited each revision of his mother’s story

The Blond Eskimo Captures the Literary Imagination

The Ghost Collector Suicide This Place: 150 Years RetoldThe Ghost Collector by Allison Mills, Cree, is the story of Shelly and her grandmother who catch ghosts. In their hair. Just like all the women in their family, they can see souls who havent transitioned yet; its their job to help the ghosts along their journey. When Shellys mom dies suddenly, Shellys relationship to ghostsand deathchanges. Instead of helping spirits move on, Shelly starts hoarding them. But no matter how many ghost cats, dogs, or