Monkey Beach Iñupiaq as well as contemporary writing

as well as contemporary writing in several of California's Native languages

The story has been told many times

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Billy-Ray Belcourt’s voice is uniquely plangent and self-aware

Dunn (1940) is an Anishinabeg-Ojibwe grandmother story-teller

Monkey Beach Iñupiaq as well as contemporary writingTragedy strikes a Native community when the Hill family's handsome seventeen year old son, Jimmy, mysteriously vanishes at sea. Left behind to cope during the search and rescue effort is his sister, Lisamarie, a wayward teenager with a dark secret. She sets off alone in search of Jimmy through the Douglas Channel and heads for Monkey Beach a shore famed for its sasquatch sightings. Infused by turns with darkness and humour, Monkey Beach is a