Braided Spirits is a haunting tribute to Native American women of the American West — the watchers, the warriors, the ones who endured. Each page features a Buffalo Nickel reimagined as a sacred remembrance, where bone and silver tell stories that history forgot. These aren’t just engraved faces; they’re echoes of a presence that never left, braided with the wind, the dust, and the silence of memory. Fully skeletal, yet fully alive in symbol and strength, these portraits honor lives that were not lost — just overlooked.

Through over 30 black-and-white engravings in the hobo nickel tradition, this volume reclaims space for Indigenous presence and legacy. Braids, feathers, beads, and bone tools are not worn as costume — they are carved as language. Accompanied by poetic prose and historical reflection, Braided Spirits invites readers to see these women not as myths or memories, but as the land itself: unmoving, but not still. Part of the Nickel Souls series, this book carries forward a folk art tradition with reverence, weight, and quiet fire.