Bones — Karen L. Abrahamson

A short story: In Canada's north, Linus takes two old friends to an ancient medicine place where buried mammoth-bones lay under an old black spruce. If they can excavate the bones and sell them, riches will finally flow Linus' way. But Linus' people's roots run as deep as the old black spruce's and the mammoth bones go even deeper. Deep enough digging the bones up might release something even darker than the bones' fluting songs.

Includes short story: There is Always a Burning