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God's red son : the Ghost Dance religion and the making of modern America
by Louis S Warren
A leading historian of the American West offers a startling new view of the religion of the Ghost Dance, which led to the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890, revealing how Ghost Dance teachings helped Indians retain their identity and reshape the modern world. 15,000 first printing.
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Mongrels
by Stephen Graham Jones
Enduring a hardscrabble, marginalized existence with his impoverished family outside of a society that does not understand or want him, a young boy travels in the night to escape legal harassment while his family watches diligently to see if he will display the same differences that have shaped their unusual lives. 50,000 first printing.
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House made of dawn
by N. Scott Momaday
A young Native American returning from World War II searches for his place on his old reservation and in urban society
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Chief Joseph & the flight of the Nez Perce : the untold story of an American tragedy
by Kent Nerburn
Explores myths and historical facts pertaining to the life of Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph, best known for his speech surrendering his tribe to the U.S. government in 1877, in an account that challenges beliefs about the role he played in the tribe's retreat and documents the tragic destruction of the Nez Perce way of life. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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Jimmy Bluefeather : a novel
by Kim Heacox
Canoe carver Keb Wisting and his grandson James, who is despondent after a logging injury derails the future he envisioned, embark on a great canoe journey into the wild Alaska
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Where the dead sit talking
by Brandon Hobson
"With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another youth staying with the Troutts"--Provided by publisher
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And still the waters run : the betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes
by Angie Debo
"And Still the Waters Run tells the tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles, known as the Five Civilized Tribes. Now with an incisive foreword by Amanda Cobb-Greetham, here is the acclaimed book that first documented the scandalous founding of Oklahoma on native land"
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Love medicine
by Louise Erdrich
The lives and destinies of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines intertwine on and around a North Dakota Indian reservation from 1934 to 1984, in a tale of survival, tenacity, tradition, injustice, and love
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A calm & normal heart : stories
by Chelsea T. Hicks
A collection of short stories that showcases modern day adventurers in tales about an Osage woman who hides her origins while attempting to social climb in midcentury Oklahoma and a young professional who sees the ghosts of his ancestors.
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Never name the dead : a novel
by D. M. Rowell
"Old grudges, tribal traditions, and outside influences collide for a Kiowa woman as forces threaten her family, her tribe, and the land of her ancestors...A cryptic voice message from her grandfather, James Sawpole, telling her to come home sounds so wrong that she catches the next plane to Oklahoma...When Mud and her cousin Denny discover her grandfather missing...and stumble across a body in his work room--Mud has no choice but to search for answers. Mud sets out into the Wildlife Refuge, determined to clear her grandfather's name and identify the killer"
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Empire of wild : a novel
by Cherie Dimaline
A story inspired by the Canadian Mâetis legend of the Rogarou finds a woman reconnecting with her heritage when her missing husband reappears in the form of a charismatic preacher who does not recognize her
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Winter counts : a novel
by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil's nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop. They follow a lead to Denver and find that drug cartels are rapidly expanding and forming new and terrifying alliances. And back on the reservation, a new tribal council initiative raises uncomfortable questions about money and power. As Virgil starts to link the pieces together, he must face his own demons and reclaim his Native identity. He realizes that being a Native American in the twenty-first century comes at an incredible cost
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The lost journals of Sacajewea : a novel
by Debra Magpie Earling
Stolen from her village and then gambled away to a French Canadian trapper and trader, Sacajewea, determined to survive and triumph, crosses a vast and brutal terrain with her newborn son, the white man who owns her and a company of men who wish to conquer the world she loves.
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Shutter
by Ramona Emerson
A forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force, Rita Todacheene, who sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues the other investigators overlook, is caught in the crosshairs of one of Albuquerque's most dangerous cartels when a furious ghost sets her on a path of vengeance
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The berry pickers : a novel
by Amanda Peters
Growing up as the only child of affluent and overprotective parents, Norma, troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination, searches for the truth, leading her to the blueberry fields of Maine, where a family secret is finally revealed.
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The mighty red : a novel
by Louise Erdrich
A Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award—winning author tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people's lives.
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All the quiet places
by Brian Thomas Isaac
"The story of what can happen when every adult in a person's life has been affected by colonialism; it tells of the acute separation from culture that can occur even at home in a loved familiar landscape. Its narrative power relies on the unguarded, unsentimental witness provided by Eddie"
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Exposure
by Ramona Emerson
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Hole in the sky : a novel
by Daniel H. Wilson
As a mysterious object hurtles toward Earth, a Cherokee father, a NASA astrophysicist, and a shadowy government agent each uncover pieces of an impending first contact, forcing humanity to confront what it means to meet the unknown.
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Coydog
by David Tromblay
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Bad Cree
by Jessica Johns
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Waiting for the long night moon : stories
by Amanda Peters
Stories of Indigenous experiences across time, from early European contact to modern water-rights activism, depicting resilience through characters like a residential school survivor, a water protector, and a young dancer, all revealing strength and dignity amid systemic hardships.
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Passing through a prairie country : a novel
by Dennis E. Staples
At Hidden Atlantis Lake Resort and Casino, Ojibwe Marion Lafournier barely escapes dark force“the sandman” with help from cousins Alana and Cherie, and Alana and Marion must defeat the wraith using her seven-fire sight and his ability to navigate the spirit world.
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Broken fields
by Marcie R. Rendon
Cash Blackbear discovers a murdered farmer, a missing Native couple and their terrified daughter who lead her on a tense investigation across White Earth Reservation, in the fourth novel of the series following Sinister Graves. Original. 100,000 first printing.
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Small ceremonies : a novel
by Kyle Edwards
This may be the Tigers' last season, and Indigenous student Tommy sees the uncertainty of life in the team's loss; Clinton is trying to avoid gang violence; Floyd is talented yet insecure about being multiracial; and the adults in Tommy's life?—?his mother; Pete, the Zamboni driver; and elders Maggie and Olga?—?offer well-intentioned but often misguided support.
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1666 : a novel
by Lora Chilton
"The survival story of the Patawomeck Tribe of Virginia has been remembered within the tribe for generations, but the massacre of Patawomeck men and the enslavement of women and children by land hungry colonists in 1666 has been mostly unknown outside ofthe tribe until now. Author Lora Chilton, a member of the tribe through the lineage of her father, has created this powerful fictional retelling. Told in first person point of view through the imagined lives of two women, Chilton tells the harrowing stories of Ah'SaWei WaTaPaAnTam (Golden Fawn) and NePa'WeXo (Shining Moon), members of the surviving Patawomeck tribe, who after the slaughter of their men were sold and transported to Barbados via slave ship. Separated and bought by different sugar plantations, they endured, each plotting their escapes before finally making their way back to Virginia to be reunited with the few members of the tribe that remained. It is because of these women that the tribe is in existence to this day"
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Where the dead sit talking
by Brandon Hobson
"With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another youth staying with the Troutts"--Provided by publisher
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Laughing Boy
by Oliver La Farge
In a novel set in the Southwest during 1915, a silversmith named Laughing Boy falls in love with an "educated" Navajo woman at a ceremonial dance, sparking a relationship that will reveal the deep rhythms and longing of Navajo life. Reprint.
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