The Bone Picker: Native Stories, Alternate Histories voices their marrow

their marrow

What does it mean to be an Indigenous man today

sometimes biting

and a response to the art of it all

INDIGNERDS is here to celebrate those stories

The Bone Picker: Native Stories, Alternate Histories voices their marrowUnder the shadow of gray clouds, three children venture into the woods, where they spot the corpse of an old man on a scaffold. Suddenly a wild figure emerges, with long fingernails and tangled hair. It is the Hattak fullih nipi foni, the bone picker, who comes to tear off rotting flesh with his fingernails. Only the Choctaws who adhere to the old ways will speak of him. The frightening bone picker is just one of many entities, scary and mysterious,