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1) War dances
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English
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The bestselling, award-winning author’s “fiercely freewheeling collection of stories and poems about the tragicomedies of ordinary lives” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, War Dances blends short stories, poems, call-and-response, and more into something that only Sherman Alexie could have written. Ordinary men stand at the threshold of profound change, from...
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, War Dances blends short stories, poems, call-and-response, and more into something that only Sherman Alexie could have written. Ordinary men stand at the threshold of profound change, from...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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When Faye Travers appraises the estate of a family who descended from an Indian agent who worked on the North Dakota Ojibwe reservation that is home to her mother's family, she finds a rare drum. The story traces the drum's passage both backward and forward in time, from the reservation on the northern plains to New Hampshire and back.
5) White horse
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut from Erika T. Wurth about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mother's spirit. Some people are haunted in more ways than one. Old denim jackets, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and the occasional beer at the White Horse Lounge have defined urban Indian Kari James's life so far. But when her cousin Debby finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to...
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English
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Minnesota, 1932. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and...
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English
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A Spokane Indian journalist transplanted from the reservation to the city picks up a hitchhiker, a Lummi boxer looking to take on the toughest Indian in the world. A Spokane son waits for his diabetic father to come home from the hospital, tossing out the Hershey Kisses the father has hidden all over the house. An estranged interracial couple, separated in the midst of a traffic accident, rediscover their love for each other. A white drifter holds...
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Publisher
Scibner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Indigo, a young child of the Sand Lizard people, a tribe that has been driven from its home, is reduced to scavenging from the town dump in an effort to stay alive before being rescued by Hattie, a Victorian woman who, with good intentions, sets out to transform Indigo into a proper American girl.
11) The spirit woman
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Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The search for a missing history professor, who vanished while visiting the Wind River Reservation, draws Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley into a twenty-year-old mystery involving the disappearance of another historian.
12) A searing wind
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Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Black Shell, an exile banished by his people for cowardice, prepares to lead a small band of warriors to kill the Kristianos, while explorer Hernando de Soto tricks the ancient Nations into slavery through his lies and ambition for gold.
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
"Despite his apathy toward white folks, mountain man Joe Fox reluctantly agrees to lead a group of settlers through the Rockies to Oregon. Taken aback by their appreciation, he soon finds himself enjoying their company - especially the attentions of young Callie Simmons. That is, until her parents warn Joe to keep his distance. But they should have worried about Max Starbeau, a wolf in sheep's clothing who travels with the party until the opportunity...
14) Storyteller
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Leslie Marmon Silko's groundbreaking book Storyteller, first published in 1981, blends original short stories and poetry influenced by the traditional oral tales that she heard growing up on the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico with autobiographical passages, folktales, family memories, and photographs. As she mixes traditional and Western literary genres, Silko examines themes of memory, alienation, power, and identity; communicates Native American notions...
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Irish immigrant brothers Michael and Thomas O'Driscoll have returned from the brutal front lines of the Civil War. Unable to adapt to life as farm laborers, they reenlist in the army and are thrown into ferocious combat with Red Cloud's coalition of Indian tribes in the heart of Montana's Powder River Valley. Thomas finds love amidst the daily carnage--which leads to a moment of violence that will change the brothers' lives forever. Meanwhile, following...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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"Una impresionante e imaginativa fábula moral acerca de la naturaleza de la violencia y la justicia, en su 25 aniversario de publicada. Las autoridades mexicanas y del estado de Texas organizan una expedición paramilitar para acabar con el mayor número posible de indios. Es el Grupo Glanton, y tienen como líder espiritual al juez Holden, un ser violento y cruel. Nunca duerme, viola y asesina niños de ambos sexos y afirma que nunca morirá....
17) Fire the sky
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Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After being fought to a standstill by the courageous Apalachee Nation, Spanish invader Hernando de Soto has changed his tactics. He will employ promises of peace to accomplish what cannot be achieved by violence alone. Lured by a young man's tale of gold and aided by an arrogant princess's treachery, he makes his way through the beautiful southeastern landscape. One by one, the ancient Nations fall victim to his lies as rulers and commoners alike...
18) Ni aquí ni allí
Author
Publisher
AdN, Alianza de Novelas
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
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"Estamos ante una voz que nunca hemos escuchado, una voz llena de poesía y de rabia, que estalla en la página con un apremio y una fuerza asombrosos. Una novela que sorprende por su forma de abordar una Historia compleja y dolorosa, un legado de belleza y de una profunda espiritualidad, así como la plaga de adición, maltrato y suicidio entre los nativos americanos. "Ni aquí ni allí" es un relato intergeneracional con un ritmo implacable sobre...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling memoirist Alexandra Fuller, a debut novel. Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications of their shared heritage. When escalating anger towards the injustices, historical and current, inflicted upon the Lakota people by the federal government leads to tribal divisions...
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