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Publisher
Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"In the Northwest Coast region of North America, people know Raven the Trickster can change his shape at will. When an old man steals all the light from the world and hides it in a special box, the people need Raven's help. Can Raven outsmart the old man?" --
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A visionary neo-Western blend of magical realism, mystery, and horror, Valley of Shadows sheds light on the dark past of injustice, isolation, and suffering along the US-Mexico border.
Solitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost his wife, his family, even his country in the late 1870s when the Rio Grande shifted course, stranding the Mexican town of Olvido on the Texas side of the border. He'd made his brooding peace with retiring...
3) Kukum
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A Quebec bestseller based on the life of Michel Jean’s great-grandmother that delivers an empathetic portrait of drastic change in an Innu community.
Kukum recounts the story of Almanda Siméon, an orphan raised by her aunt and uncle, who falls in love with a young Innu man despite their cultural differences and goes on to share her life with the Pekuakami Innu community. They accept her as one of their own: Almanda learns their language, how...
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Publisher
Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In this pioneering book Daniel Usner examines the economic and cultural interactions among the Indians, Europeans, and African slaves of colonial Louisiana, including the province of West Florida. Rather than focusing on a single cultural group or on a particular economic activity, this study traces the complex social linkages among Indian villages, colonial plantations, hunting camps, military outposts, and port towns across a large region of pre-cotton...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a Lakota Sioux, who was wrongfully charged with the murder of a white man in 1982 at Russell Means's Yellow Thunder Camp, an AIM encampment in the Black Hills in South Dakota. Though Collins was innocent, he took the fall for the actual killer, a man placed in the camp with the intention of compromising the reputation of AIM. This story reveals the struggle of the American Indian people in their...
Author
Series
Indian Lake trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Jade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to build a life after the years of sacrifice—only to find the Lake Witch is waiting for her.
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Language
English
Description
A saintly Hispanic girl must be protected from a ruthless drug cartel in this borderland thriller featuring Arizona deputies and the Apache Tribal Police.
A religious sensation is sweeping Northwestern Mexico thanks to seventeen-year-old Mariana Villalobos's mystic gift. With a cascade of spiritual epiphanies, even gangsters reject crime, which spells disaster for those who profit most from the drug trade. After their revenues tumble, the Liones...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist: A “stellar collection” of stories about navigating life off the reservation, filled with laughter and heartbreak (People).
In these lyrical, affectionate tales from the author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, characters navigate the crossroads of culture, battle stereotypes, and find themselves...
In these lyrical, affectionate tales from the author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, characters navigate the crossroads of culture, battle stereotypes, and find themselves...
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Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Once again Alexander Cold and his indomitable journalist grandmother, Kate, are braving the mystical unknown, this time in the heart of Africa. Along with Alex's friend Nadia Santos and a photographic crew from International Geographic magazine, they have travelled to Kenya to work on an article about the continent's first elephant-led safaris. But when a missionary approaches their camp in search of companions who have mysteriously disappeared, Alex,...
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This comprehensive overview of federal Indian law explores the context and complexities of modern Native American politics and legal rights.
Both accessible and authoritative, American Indians, American Justice is an essential sourcebook for all concerned with the plight of the contemporary Indian. Beginning with an examination of the historical relationship of Indians and the courts, the authors describe how tribal courts developed
...11) Ohitika Woman
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In this follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Lakota Woman, the bestselling author shares “a grim yet gripping account” of Native American life (The Boston Globe).
In this stirring sequel to the now-classic Lakota Woman, Mary Brave Bird continues the chronicle of her life with the same grit, passion, and piercing insight. It is a tale of ancient glory and present anguish, of courage and despair,
...In this stirring sequel to the now-classic Lakota Woman, Mary Brave Bird continues the chronicle of her life with the same grit, passion, and piercing insight. It is a tale of ancient glory and present anguish, of courage and despair,
Author
Publisher
Invisible Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Motherhood, trauma, and familial history are woven together into a powerful collection from the award-winning author of What Became My Grieving Ceremony.
Beginning with a revelation of familial sexual abuse, Building a Nest from the Bones of My People charts the impact of this revelation on the speaker. From the pain of estrangement to navigating first-time motherhood in the midst of a family crisis, Morgan explores the
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Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
“Her book offers many insights into the criminality of Native people, as well as that of women or anyone else who is poor and oppressed.” —Canadian Woman Studies
Luana Ross writes, “Native Americans disappear into Euro-American institutions of confinement at alarming rates. People from my reservation appeared to simply vanish and magically return. [As a child] I did not realize what a ‘real’ prison was and did not...
Luana Ross writes, “Native Americans disappear into Euro-American institutions of confinement at alarming rates. People from my reservation appeared to simply vanish and magically return. [As a child] I did not realize what a ‘real’ prison was and did not...
14) Giju's Gift
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Language
English
Description
Long ago, all living creatures on this land shared a special balance with one another. The pugulatmu'j-the Little People-were the original guardians of the land, and they looked after all living things. As time passed, we forgot these playful yet powerful guardians, but they did not forget us. Occasionally, they make their presence known with the little tricks they play.
When her hair clip disappears, Mali is devastated. It was special, made by her...
Author
Publisher
Talonbooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Where the Blood Mixes is meant to expose the shadows below the surface of the author’s First Nations heritage, and to celebrate its survivors. Though torn down years ago, the memories of their Residential School still live deep inside the hearts of those who spent their childhoods there. For some, like Floyd, the legacy of that trauma has been passed down through families for generations. But what is the greater story, what lies untold
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Publisher
Heartdrum
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General's Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, Jen Ferguson writes about the hurt of a life stuck in past tense, the hum of connections that cannot be severed, and one week in a small, snowy town that changes everything.
Overachievement isn't a bad word-for Berlin, it's the goal. She's securing excellent grades, planning her future, and working a part-time job at Pink Mountain...
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Since the 1800's, many European Americans have relied on Native Americans as models for their own national, racial, and gender identities. Displays of this impulse include world's fairs, fraternal organizations, and films such as Dances with Wolves. Shari M. Huhndorf uses cultural artifacts such as these to examine the phenomenon of "going native," showing its complex relations to social crises in the broader American society—including
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Publisher
Jhup
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
“A fascinating look at the diverse experiences of two native combatants…an important contribution to our understanding of the War of 1812.” —The Journal of America’s Military Past
Native peoples played major roles in the War of 1812 as allies of both the United States and Great Britain, but few wrote about their conflict experiences. Two famously wrote down their stories: Black Hawk, the British-allied chief of
...Native peoples played major roles in the War of 1812 as allies of both the United States and Great Britain, but few wrote about their conflict experiences. Two famously wrote down their stories: Black Hawk, the British-allied chief of
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The little-known story of how army veterans returning to reservation life after World War I transformed Native American identity.
Drawing from archival sources and oral histories, Thomas Grillot demonstrates how the relationship between Native American tribes and the United States was reinvented in the years following World War I.
During that conflict, twelve thousand Native American soldiers served in the
...Drawing from archival sources and oral histories, Thomas Grillot demonstrates how the relationship between Native American tribes and the United States was reinvented in the years following World War I.
During that conflict, twelve thousand Native American soldiers served in the
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions. From the Happy Canyon Indian Pageant and Wild West Show in Pendleton, Oregon, to outdoor dramas like Tecumseh! in Chillicothe, Ohio, and Unto These Hills in Cherokee, North Carolina, locals staged...
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