David Heska Wanbli Weiden signing and discussing Winter Counts a groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx. Weiden is an enrolled citizen of the Sicangu Lakota Nation and received his MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and now lives in Denver. He will be at MacDowell here in Peterborough during August. We are grateful that has offered to visit our store on the 6th. We hope you can join us.
Photo by Aslan Chalom
His last name, Weiden, is pronounced “Why-den.” Heska Wanbli is pronounced “Heh-ska Wahn-blee.” His nation, the Sicangu Lakota, is pronounced “See-chon-goo Lah-coat-ah.”
You can find more information about David at his website https://davidweiden.com/