Days before July 4, 1776, Benjamin Franklin invited twenty-one chiefs of the Iroquois nations to Philadelphia. These leaders represented the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, a league of six Indigenous nations whose territories spanned part of what is now New York, Quebec, and Ontario. The Indigenous delegates were lodged on the second floor of the Pennsylvania State House—now known as Independence Hall—directly above the room where the U.S. Declaration of Independence was about to be signed.

In Wandering stars (Wandering stars In the Spanish edition of AdN, all the characters carry some trauma. They are Native Americans of different generations who have survived many types of violence and cannot find their place. The author, Tommy Orange (Oakland, 1982), a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes and a very powerful voice in the new North American narrative, claims an identity far removed from stereotypes. With his first book, There there (2018; Neither here nor there, in Alliance), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. With Wandering stars It was a Booker Prize finalist.