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Podcast: Kaidankai: Ghost, Supernatural, and Dark Short Fiction
Episode: Ep. 320: Last Breath by Nathan Perrin & Ode to Obscured Ancestors by Elise Maren
Description: In "Last Breath:" A boy on a hunting trip with his father questions the need to kill animals sacred to the Sami people and culture."Ode to Obscured Ancestors," speaks to the quiet endurance passed through generations and the ancestral voices that still sing through silence.Author's Note: This story was written in consultation with a Sámi advisor (poet and activist Elise Maren) and includes elements of their spirituality. The Sámi are a Native tribe found in Norway, northern Sweden, Finland, and Russia's Kola Peninsula. Like all Native tribes, they faced colonization and genocide th...