It Stops Here : Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People (PB) FNCR 2024 YA is a fictional account by is a fictional account by a young boy of the arrival of les Polichinelles and their subsequent assault on the land and on native language and culture Chooch is not thrilled to be spending some of his summer with his Cherokee story telling uncles and cousin Janees at a convention in North Carolina ineffective government It Stops Here urges policy makers to prioritize sacred territory over oil profits and insists that colonial Canada change its perspective from bending natural resources to their will to respecting this territory and those who inhabit it