Project Thunderbird

Project Thunderbird
"Project Thunderbird" is a story by Kelly Hale in the anthology Liberating Earth edited by Kate Orman for Obverse Books.

Synopsis
Just prior to the battle at Wounded Knee, a deal was struck between one of the Indian warriors and a spirit, victory in exchange for rejection of everything the White Man brought to the Americas.

At the Battle of Wounded Knee, the Indians made a decisive victory that turned the conflict with the white man on its head and begun a Charms Race where the spirits of the dead were weaponised by all sides and set loose to wipe out their enemies.

Now, decades later, the fallout from this is being felt, and the Druids, Medicine Women, Voodoo Priests and all the other spiritualists agree, the world no longer belongs to the living but rather the weaponised dead.

In fact, if nothing is done soon, there will be no place in the world for the living at all...