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Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma's childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harry--or Asku, as Alma knew him--was the most promising student at the 'savage-taming' boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil. Created in the wake of the Indian Wars, the Stover School was intended to assimilate the children...
83) Not My Girl
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two years ago, Margaret left her Arctic home for the outsiders' school. Now she has returned and can barely contain her excitement as she rushes towards her waiting family - but her mother stands still as a stone. This strange, skinny child, with her hair cropped short, can't be her daughter. "Not my girl!" she says angrily.
Margaret's years at school have changed her. Now ten years old, she has forgotten her language and the skills to hunt and fish....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato - where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies...
Author
Series
Jane Whitefield novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
Protecting a man wrongly charged with the murder of his wife, Jane Whitefield is shot and abducted by the real culprits, who threaten to kill her if she does not reveal her client's whereabouts
86) Rock with wings
Author
Series
Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 20
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 20
Language
English
Description
"Doing a good deed for a relative offers the perfect opportunity for Sergeant Jim Chee and his wife, Officer Bernie Manuelito, to get away from the daily grind of police work. But two cases will call them back from their short vacation and separate them--one near Shiprock, and the other at iconic Monument Valley. Chee follows a series of seemingly random and cryptic clues that lead to a missing woman, a coldblooded thug, and a mysterious mound of...
87) Finding moon
Author
Language
English
Description
An American undertakes a dangerous search in Asia for his Amerasian niece. When his brother is killed in a helicopter crash and the Vietnamese wife dies soon after, Mathias Moon, a Colorado newsman, flies to find the girl. In the course of the search, from the teeming streets of Manila to the jungles of Cambodia, Moon finds himself too.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books,an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An explosive examination of the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Highway 16, and a searing indictment of the society that failed them. For decades, women--overwhelmingly from Indigenous backgrounds--have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern B.C. The highway is called the Highway of Tears by locals, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. In Highway of Tears, Jessica McDiarmid meticulously...
90) My good man
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious assault lands the brother of his mother's late boyfriend in the hospital, Brian, a twenty-something Indigenous reporter, must pick up the threads of a life he's abandoned, returning to the Tuscarora reservation to discover the truth.
91) Wolf, No Wolf
Author
Series
Publisher
Audible Studios on Brilliance audio
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A storm is brewing in Toussaint between the ranchers and environmentalists, and it's up to Du Pré to stop the bloodshed Two men have been cutting fences at the ranches of Toussaint, Montana, loosing thousands of dollars of cattle to use as target practice for their .22 rifles. Are they thieves? Pranksters? Local cattle inspector Gabriel Du Pré guesses they're environmentalists agitating for the reintroduction of native wolves to Montana's high plains....
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Family relationships are never simple. But Sherman Alexie's bond with his mother, Lillian, was more complex than most. She plunged her family into chaos with a drinking habit but shed her addiction when it was on the brink of costing her everything. She survived a violent past but created an elaborate facade to hid the truth. She selflessly cared for strangers but was often incapable of showering her children with the affection they so desperately...
Author
Series
Publisher
Voyageur
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Born at the turn of the 21st century, The Storyteller, also known as Ishkwegaabawiikwe (Last Standing Woman), carries her people's past within her memories. The White Earth Anishinaabe people have lived on the same land for over a thousand years. Among the towering white pines and rolling hills, the people of each generation are born, live out their lives, and are buried.
The arrival of European missionaries changes the community forever. Government...
Author
Series
Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 26
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 26
Language
English
Description
When two suspicious deaths occur in the Bears Ears area, Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito must use all their experience, skill, and intuition to find justice.
An unexpected death on a lonely road outside of Utah's Bears Ears National Park raises questions for Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito. Why would a seasoned outdoorsman and well-known paleontologist freeze to death within walking...
95) Laughing Boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: "A romantic idyll played out in the rhythms and meanings of a vanished Navajo world." —The Denver Post
Laughing Boy is a model member of his tribe. Raised in old traditions, skilled in silver work, and known for his prowess in the wild horse races, he does the Navajos of T'o Tlakai proud. But times are changing. It is 1914, and the first car has just driven into their country. Then,
96) Listening woman
Author
Language
English
Description
A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in a series of disturbing clues: an airplane's mysterious crash in the nighttime desert, a bizarre attack on a windmill, a vanishing shipment of cocaine. Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is trapped in the deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed.
Author
Publisher
Royal BC Museum
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A narrative of resistance and resilience spanning seven decades in the life of a tireless advocate for Indigenous language preservation. Life histories are a form of contemporary social history and convey important messages about identity, cosmology, social behaviour and one's place in the world. This first-person oral history--the first of its kind ever published by the Royal BC Museum--documents a period of profound social change through the lens...
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Indigenous people across Turtle Island have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the remnants of old ones, they adopted new ideas and built on them, they fought back, they kept their cultures alive, and they survived. Key events in Indigenous history with accounts of the people, places, and events that have mattered from the 12th...
Author
Series
Hana Westerman thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A tenacious Māori detective, Hana Westerman juggles single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. Led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man ritualistically hanging in a secret room and a puzzling inward-curving inscription. Delving into the investigation after a second, apparently unrelated, death, she uncovers a chilling connection to a historic crime: 160 years before, during the brutal...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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, in this own-voices debut perfect for fans of Winter Counts. No one called her Mud in Silicon Valley. There, she was Mae, a high-powered professional who had left her Kiowa roots behind a decade ago. But a cryptic voice message from her grandfather, James Sawpole, telling her to come home sounds...
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