BY RYAN PORTER
OJIBWE GRAPHIC NOVELIST Jen Storm (Fire Starters) is fascinated by Windigo tales. First Nations legends describe the Windigo as a spirit consumed by greed, often for human lesh. But the basis of Storm’s new comic, “Red Clouds,” is even more chilling for its grounding in historical fact. The story, featured in the new graphic anthology
This Place: 150 Years Retold, published by HighWater Press (see review p. 30), tells the story of Zhauwuno-Geezhigo-Gaubow. Under the English name Jack Fiddler, he was accused by settlers of 14 “Windigo killings.”