Sacred Smokes

Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., an associate professor and the chair of Native American Studies at the University of Montana, is a creative editor for Transmotion, an online journal of postmodern indigenous studies. His fiction and photography have been widely published. He is also the editor of The Faster Redder Road: The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones (UNM Press).

I haven't read anything this real and raw and necessary in a long time. . . . It's a book that'll lodge in you. There's moments and lines and images in here that cut through all the lies, right into the heart of childhood, right into the beating heart of Indian country."" - Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels: A Novel