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"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages.
Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great...
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In 1911, a farm family is killed in Pluto, North Dakota, and three Ojibwe are lynched for the murders even though there is no evidence of their guilt; and years later, the events of the crime reverberate among the descendants of those involved.
Unaware of a violent event that marked the beginning of her mixed ancestry, ambitious young Evelina Harp, a part-Ojibwe, part-white girl prone to falling hopelessly in love, learns disturbing truths from her...
3) Zia
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A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana whose story was told in the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
4) War dances
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A collection of short stories includes the title story, in which a famous writer, who just learned he may have a brain tumor, must decide how to care for his distant, American Indian father who is slowly dying.
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Birchbark house volume 1
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Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847. For as long as Omakayas can remember, she and her family have lived on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Although the chimookoman, white people, encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has. Every summer the family builds...
7) Blood memory
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Catherine McLeod is an investigative reporter for the "Journal," one of Denver's major newspapers. Her recent coverage of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes filing a claim for twenty-seven million acres of their ancestral lands has made her the target for assassination. Her investigation uncovers a conspiracy involving her ex-husband's wealthy family and state politicians. And as Catherine unravels the truth, she discovers some startling facts about...
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Miranda Price believed the worst was behind her when she finally received a divorce from her husband, a state representative, but she realizes her troubles are far from over when she and her son are kidnapped by a very attractive outlaw who wants her ex-husband to use his political clout to reopen a Native American mining site.
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A novel of a proud stranger in his native land. He was a young American Indian named Abel, and he lived in two worlds. One was that of his father, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, the ecstasy of the drug called peyote. The other was the world of the twentieth century, goading him into a compulsive cycle of sexual exploits, dissipation, and disgust. Home from a foreign war, he was a man being torn apart, a man...
14) Aztec autumn
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Aztec historical novels volume 2
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A sequel to the novel "Aztec," set in postconquest Mexico, which tells the story of Tenamaxtli, a proud, young Aztec who sets out to avenge the murder of his father by mounting a rebellion against the Spaniards.
15) The sinister pig
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The investigations of Navajo Tribal Police sergeant Jim Chee and his love interest border patrol officer Bernadette Manuelito converge when the murder of an ex-CIA agent on reservation property turns out to be tied to an exotic game ranch near the Mexican border, and the embezzlement of tribal funds.
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Native American Heritage Month
Book Chat: March 1, 2023: Pig & Horse Welfare Day
Celebrating Indigenous Authors
Native American Heritage Month
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From the bestselling author of "Tracks" comes a dramatic sequel--a story of suspect miracles, tests of faith, and the corrosive and redemptive power of secrecy. Over the years, Father Damian has seen the reservation through its most severe crises, yet he is more than a heroic priest. He has lived with and served the Ojibwa people as a man of the cloth, and also as a woman. However, where does fact end and reality begin? NPR sponsorships. Deals with...
17) Skeleton man
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Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee try to locate the body of a passenger aboard an airliner that crashed fifty years previous and the attache filled with diamonds that he was carrying in order to prove the innocence of a young man, but they are not the only ones in search of the gems.
20) Hiawatha
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An abridgement of the epic poem describing the life and deeds of a legendary Indian brave.
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