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• The Seed Keeper

  a Novel

  Wilson, Diane, 1954-

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  The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most.

• The Sentence

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author presents this unusual novel in which a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer.

• Bad Cree

  a Novel

  Johns, Jessica,

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  A young Cree woman is tormented by vivid dreams from before her sister's untimely death and wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands before returning to her rural hometown in Alberta seeking answers.

• Don't Fear the Reaper

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  Returning to rural Proofrock after being released from prison, Jade Daniels runs afoul of a convicted serial killer, who escapes from a prison transfer in a blizzard, in the second novel of the series following My Heart is a Chainsaw.

• Sinister Graves

  Rendon, Marcie R.,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crooked Hallelujah

  Ford, Kelli Jo,

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  A first collection by an award-winning Cherokee writer traces four generations of Native American women as they navigate cultural dynamics, religious beliefs, the 1980s oil bust, devastating storms and unreliable men to connect with their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Sun

  Roanhorse, Rebecca,

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  Xiala, a disgraced Teek who can calm waters or cause madness with her song, arrives and disrupts the holy city of Tova during the winter solstice.

• Winter Counts

  a Novel

  Weiden, David Heska Wanbli, 1963-

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  A vigilante enforcer on South Dakota's Rosebud Indian Reservation enlists the help of an ex to investigate the activities of an expanding drug cartel, while a new tribal council initiative raises controversial questions.

• A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

  Elliott, Alicia,

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  A personal meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America, in an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about Native people in North America.

• Sabrina & Corina

  Stories

  Fajardo-Anstine, Kali,

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  A debut story collection about female relationships and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands features Latina protagonists of indigenous descent who cautiously navigate the violence and changes in a Denver, Colorado community.

• Chenoo

  a Novel

  Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-

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  At his cousin's request, Joe Neptune returns to his tribal community on Abenaki Island to help protect the Penacooks as they stage a takeover of state lands, but a greater threat emerges when someone begins murdering people in the woods.

• Ceremony

  Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948-

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  On a New Mexico reservation, one Navajo family--including Tayo, a World War II veteran deeply scarred by his experiences as a Japanese POW and by the rejection of his own people--struggles to survive in a world no longer theirs in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Book of the Little Axe

  Francis-Sharma, Lauren,

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  Quietly but purposefully rebelling against the life others expect of her in late-18th-century Trinidad, Rosa loses her family's farm when her homeland transitions to British rule, before her half-Crow son finds his coming-of-age challenged…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Removed

  a Novel

  Hobson, Brandon,

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  A Cherokee family takes in a remarkable foster child on the eve of the Cherokee National Holiday and anniversary of a loved one’s death.

• The Only Good Indians

  a Novel

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Heart Berries

  a Memoir

  Mailhot, Terese Marie,

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  Terese Mailhot's debut memoir chronicles her struggle to balance the beauty of her Native heritage with the often desperate and chaotic reality of life on the reservation.

• House Made of Dawn

  Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-2024,

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  A young American Indian returning from World War II searches for his place on his old reservation and in urban society.

• There There

  Orange, Tommy, 1982-

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  A novel which grapples with the complex history of Native Americans; with an inheritance of profound spirituality; and with a plague of addiction, abuse and suicide, follows 12 characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indian Horse

  a Novel

  Wagamese, Richard,

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  Saul Indian Horse, having hit rock bottom in a treatment centre for alcohol addiction, wants peace. He sees the only way to find it is to tell his life story as a Northern Ojibway with all its joys and sorrows. As he journeys back he comes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fools Crow

  Welch, James, 1940-2003

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  White Man's Dog, renamed Fools Crow, and some of his fellow Blackfoot try to follow the white man's ways while watching their traditions disappear.