Warrior Girl Unearthed

Content Warning: This section discusses anti-Indigenous and anti-Black racism; the kidnapping, murder, and rape of Indigenous women; sexual abuse and “grooming” of underage people; and mistreatment of human remains.

Perry begins her first day at her third internship assignment. Her new boss is Bucky Nodin, a relative of Stormy’s. He agrees to give her a half day due to Daunis’s arraignment.

They listen to the prosecutor list the case against Daunis. When it’s the defense’s turn to speak, a woman next to Perry stands and says she killed Grant Edwards. More Ojibwe women stand: One after another, they each say they killed Grant Edwards for raping them. A man named Mr. Bailey says he stabbed Edwards with a pocketknife for raping his daughter, Robin, and getting her addicted to opioids: Edwards admitted this crime to Daunis in the events of Firekeeper’s Daughter.

Later, Daunis comes to the Firekeeper-Birch house to pick up Waabun and says they arrested Mr. Bailey because his story seemed the most plausible. Perry asks whether Edwards and Lockart ever dated the same person. Daunis tells her it was a woman named Susan Hopkins. Daunis and Perry’s mom say that after they blanket-partied Edwards, he didn’t stop raping women; he just got “more strategic.