Sacred Folks : Stories

Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. is an enrolled Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians and a bestselling author and editor. He is the Tilikum Professor and Chair of Indigenous Nations Studies at Portland State University.

Sacred Folks brings it all home in the final book of Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.’s urban Native Chicago story cycle. Disciples, demons, gods, gangbangers, and the city itself all meet up to tell unforgettable tales across time and neighborhoods. Our guide through the trilogy, Teddy, is right in the thick of things, and he recounts for us parts of the path to the end and explains how and maybe why we got here and where we might go after all.