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Tanya Tagaq is a writer and musician and a member of the Inuit community of Cambridge Bay in northern Canada. Critics and fellow writers have praised her work for combining traditional Inuit stories with popular genres of literature, such as fantasy fiction. But Tagaq is not the only Indigenous writer to blend traditional stories with popular literature. In the 2020 novel The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones successfully blended the oral storytelling tradition of his tribe, the Blackfeet Nation, with horror fiction.