"Indian Burial Ground" by Nick Medina

Nick Medina’s Indian Burial Ground  is a horror novel that combines stirring storytelling with an exploration of historical racial injustices in America – in this case, the epidemic of alcoholism, suicide, and mental health disorders on Indigenous reservations.Medina’s sophomore novel again sheds light on issues affecting Native communities, while also delivering a genuinely terrifying and engaging read.Already at work on a third book in the same horror/Native American vein, Medina told Steve Tarter that his hope is to enlighten readers who might not comprehend some of the problems modern Native Americans face. Medina, an admitted true-crime TV fan, made his debut in 2023 with Sisters of the Lost Nation, a book which addressed the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Burial Ground is centered around a woman and her uncle as they are haunted by a string of deaths—decades apart—in their Louisiana reservation.