Sovereign Flows and the Obligation of Repayment.

This article analyzes Stephen Graham Jones's 2020 novel *The Only Good Indians*, focusing on its depiction of Indigenous justice through the haunting vengeance of Elk Head Woman, a spirit punishing four Blackfeet men for violating tribal law by killing an elk cow and her unborn calf. The novel challenges settler-colonial frameworks of individual rights and legal recognition by portraying a sovereign flow of intergenerational debt and ethical–political relations between human and more-than-human Indigenous peoples that persist beyond state law. It situates violence against Indigenous women and land within ongoing settler-colonial dispossession and critiques liberal rights discourse as insufficient for addressing Indigenous experiences of harm and justice. Ultimately, the novel envisions Indigenous lifeways and legalities that transcend settler-colonial social justice, emphasizing relationality, nonhierarchy, and enduring Indigenous sovereignty.