Novel "REZ's EDGE" Raises Hackles and Indian Reservation Woes and Pros

REZ's EDGE

"The story is fiction, but the reality is all too real."

On the summer before starting seventh grade, an Anglo boy named Dakota and his father are en-route to their hometown.  They are involved in a horrific automobile accident that leaves Dakota fatherless.  A drunken Native American, with his intoxicated tribal members, is the cause of the head-on collision and his father's death.  The reservation border is only thirty minutes from Dakota's home town.  

After a year's worth of rehabilitation and recovery, Dakota returns to his first day of eighth grade.  Late to his first class, he is assigned to sit next to a native boy.  When first period is over he finds that his locker is next-door to an Indian girl.  He blames all the indigenous people for killing his father and his physical and mental pain. 

Invoking his friends, Dakota begins a reign of torment.  He lashes out in anger that escalates into physical violence.  Through psychiatric help and the assistance of his school counselor, he learns to suppress most of his anger, but a dormant volcano is never really dead.  

Through his trials and tribulations, Dakota learns more and more about Native American culture and their painful history.  He becomes more sympathetic to their plight, but he never does forgive the killer of his father.  In search of answers, he reaches out to his female Indian locker mate.  In doing so he finds himself conflicted, yet mysteriously attracted to this native American girl.

The Rez's Edge takes place in the late seventies,  during the time frame of the American Indian Movement and the occupation of Wounded Knee at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.  The poignant times mirror the conflict in Dakota's life.

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