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Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A snowmelt has sent floodwaters down to the fields of the Red River Valley, dragging the body of an unidentified Native woman into the town of Ada. The only evidence the medical examiner recovers is a torn piece of paper inside her bra: a hymnal writtenin English and Ojibwe. Cash Blackbear, a 19-year-old Ojibwe woman, sometimes helps Sheriff Wheaton, her guardian, on his investigations. Now she knows her search for justice for this anonymous victim...
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
""One of today's automatic buy-today-read-tonight series...thoughtful but suspenseful, fast but lasting, contemporary but strangely timeless." (Lee Child) In the extraordinary new Cork O'Connor thriller from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author William Kent Krueger, the lives of hundreds of innocent people are at stake when Cork vanishes just days before his daughter's wedding. Since the violent deaths of his wife, father, and...
4) Red Wolf
Author
Publisher
Dundurn Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Life is changing for Canada's Anishnaabek Nation and for the wolf packs that share their territory. In the late 1800s, both Native people and wolves are being forced from the land. Starving and lonely, an orphaned timber wolf is befriended by a boy named Red Wolf. But under the Indian Act, Red Wolf is forced to attend a residential school far from the life he knows, and the wolf is alone once more. Courage, love and fate reunite the pair, and they...
5) Ojibwe
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the Ojibwe people, discussing their history, traditions, and daily life
Author
Publisher
Milweed Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Saul Indian Horse is a child when his family retreats into the woods. Among the lakes and the cedars, they attempt to reconnect with half-forgotten traditions and hide from the authorities who have been kidnapping Ojibway youth. But when winter approaches, Saul loses everything: his brother, his parents, his beloved grandmotherand then his home itself. Alone in the world and placed in a horrific boarding school, Saul is surrounded by violence and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a masterwork that both deepens and enlarges the world of her previous novels, acclaimed author Louise Erdrich captures the essence of a time and the spirit of a woman who felt compelled by her beliefs to serve her people as a priest. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horsedeals with miracles, crises of faith, struggles with good and evil, temptation, and the corrosive and redemptive power of secrecy. For more than a half century, Father...
8) Dreamcatcher
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the land of the Ojibway a baby sleeps, protected from bad dreams, as the life of the tribe goes on around him.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Steve Hamilton's novels starring ex-cop and sometime-P.I. Alex McKnight have won multiple awards and appeared on bestseller lists nationwide. And when you start reading Winter of the Wolf Moon, you will instantly understand why. . . When a young woman from the Ojibwa tribe asks McKnight for shelter from her violent boyfriend, McKnight agrees. But after letting her stay in one of his cabins, he finds her gone the next morning. His search for her brings...
10) LaRose
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
North Dakota, 1999. Landreaux Iron accidentally shoots and kills five-year-old Dusty Ravich, the son of his neighbors. The two families have always been close; Dusty was best friends with Landreaux's son LaRose. Horrified, Landreaux turns to tradition--prayer in an Ojibwe sweat lodge--for guidance, and finds a way forward. Following an ancient means of atonement, he and his wife will give LaRose to the grieving Ravich family. "Our son will be your...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1906 Philadelphia, when her childhood friend, Harry Muskrat, is accused of murdering a federal agent, Alma Mitchel convinces her lawyer husband to defend him, which forces her to revisit the past and confront painful secrets from a childhood spent in the wake of the Indian Wars.
13) SkySisters
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two Ojibway sisters trek across the frozen north country to see the SkySpritis, the Northern Lights.
15) The Ojibwa
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Clubhouse
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
20) The fugitives
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The much anticipated new novel by Christopher Sorrentino, acclaimed author of National Book Award finalist Trance a bracing, kaleidoscopic look at truth and fiction, love and obsession, loyalty and betrayal, race and identity, chaos and free will. Sandy Mulligan, a successful writer in the midst of a personal and creative crisis, retreats from Brooklyn to the quiet Michigan town where he hopes to finish a novel and to escape his turbulent private...
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