By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com For Drew Hayden Taylor, Ojibway author from the Curve Lake First Nation in Ontario, Ladybug LaFlesche “is one of my most favourite characters ever created.” Ladybug drives the narrative in Taylor’s newest novel Sucker Falls. Ladybug is a survivor. She builds Casino N’Gataage — “a shining example of Indigenous sovereignty” — on her home, Sucker Falls First Nation, that has yet to be granted reserve status by the Canadian government. She plans to bulldoze Chief Nick Best’s hereditary home so she can build an airport. She signs an agreement with the Diamond Boys for royalties for minerals that go deeper than the ‘six inches below the ground rule’ as a failsafe to her initial monetary plans. She uses fear to rule her…
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