Indigenous Justice toward Survivance in <i>The Round House</i> and <i>Winter Counts</i>

This article examines the ways in which Louise Erdrich’s The Round House and David Heska Wanbli Weiden’s Winter Counts use the conventions of detective fiction to investigate ongoing crimes against Indigenous communities. Both novels situate crime within the larger context of settler colonialist border creation, demonstrating that the contemporary jurisdictional ramifications of those borders perpetuate, rather than curtail, criminality. Again drawing on generic conventions, Erdrich and Weiden’s texts use detective fiction to position survivance as a solution based in their frameworks of Indigenous justice