Super Short Summary

In Angeline Boulley's 2023 young adult mystery/thriller Warrior Girl Unearthed, Perry Firekeeper-Birch, an Ojibwe teen, discovers that a nearby college holds her ancestors' remains and cultural artifacts. With her twin Pauline and friends, Perry embarks on a mission to reclaim these items amidst rising cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women. The novel explores themes of repatriation, Indigenous sovereignty, and systemic racism. It discusses anti-Indigenous and anti-Black racism, the kidnapping, murder, and rape of Indigenous women, sexual abuse, grooming of minors, and mistreatment of human remains.