From Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Award winner Weyodi OldBear, the Root & the Seed is a fiercely human science-fiction novel about resistance, inheritance,and learning to disobey.----Wheatstraw LTD owns the food, the laboratories, the soldiers, and nearly everyone's future.R316 was engineered to obey. One of hundreds of identical Deaf clones raised as disposable corporate weapons, she has never questioned an order, imagined a life beyond combat, or believed hersel...

Weyodi OldBear weaves a visionary narrative that is both a tribute to her heritage and a bold vision for the future.In a future where Earth is ravaged by the greed of the wealthy, one woman's desperate act of defiance becomes a journey of transformation and decolonization.Leia Wurahapt, a resolute Numunu (Comanche) woman, struggles to support her extended family in near-future Albuquerque. As head of a large household, she balances the weight of her ancestors' wisdom with t...