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TITLE: Crooked Hallelujah
AUTHOR: Kelli Jo Ford WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F For - NOVELS SUMMARY: 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 ideas about home. |
TITLE: Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
AUTHOR: Sierra Crane Murdoch WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364.152 Mur SUMMARY: Tells the true crime story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it. |
TITLE: Robopocalypse
AUTHOR: Daniel H. Wilson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wil - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Archos, a powerful artificial intelligence, takes on the persona of a shy human boy and begins to take over the world's technology and turn it against humanity, launching a robot war that no one seems to be able to contain or stop. |
TITLE: A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
AUTHOR: Alicia Elliott WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 814 Ell SUMMARY: The author shares her experience living between Indigenous and white communities, exploring the struggles of belonging. |
TITLE: Elatsoe
AUTHOR: Darcie Little Badger WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lit - FANTASY SUMMARY: Elatsoe lives in this slightly stranger America. She can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family. Her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes. But she is going to do more than pry. The picture-perfect facade of Willowbee masks gruesome secrets, and she will rely on her wits, skills, and friends to tear off the mask and protect her family. |
TITLE: The Round House
AUTHOR: Louise Erdrich WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Erd - NOVELS SUMMARY: After Geraldine Coutts is attacked on the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota, her husband Bazil, a tribal judge, tries to find justice for his wife, and their teenage son Joe tries to help his mother heal. |
TITLE: Report to the Department of the Interior
AUTHOR: Diane Glancy WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Gla SUMMARY: Constructed as a series of reports to the Department of the Interior, these poems of grief, anger, defiance, and resistance focus on the oppressive educational system adopted by Indian boarding schools and the struggle Native Americans experienced to retain and honor traditional ways of life and culture. |
TITLE: Where the Dead Sit Talking
AUTHOR: Brandon Hobson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hob - NOVELS SUMMARY: With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family, where he keeps mostly to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface. At least until he meets seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another youth staying with the Troutts. |
TITLE: Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation
AUTHOR: Michael Powell WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796.323 Pow SUMMARY: The story of a Navajo high school basketball team and its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, family, and the obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations. |
TITLE: Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's
AUTHOR: Tiffany Midge WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 814 Mid SUMMARY: A collection of Tiffany Midge's musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in modern America. |
TITLE: Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
AUTHOR: Noé Álvarez WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796.42 Álv SUMMARY: The author recounts his experiences and those of his Native American companions as they complete a six-thousand mile marathon from Canada to Guatemala over four months, a First Nations movement called the Peace and Dignity Journeys. |
TITLE: Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band
AUTHOR: Christian Staebler WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 782.42 Sta - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Experience the riveting, powerful story of the Native American civil rights movement and the resulting struggle for identity told through the high-flying career of West Coast rock 'n' roll pioneers Redbone. |
TITLE: Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God
AUTHOR: Kaitlin B. Curtice WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 277.3 Cur SUMMARY: Drawing on her Native American heritage, Kaitlin Curtice shares her journey toward a better self-understanding, showing how her sense of nativeness both informs and challenges her Christian faith. |
TITLE: The Brave
AUTHOR: James Bird WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bir - NOVELS SUMMARY: Targeted by bullies for his escalating OCD, Collin is sent to live with his biological mother on an Ojibwe reservation where his differences are accepted and where he finds companionship in a physically challenged girl whose circumstances inspire Collin to make a difficult choice. |
TITLE: Rain Is Not My Indian Name
AUTHOR: Cynthia Leitich Smith WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Smi - NOVELS SUMMARY: Tired of staying in seclusion since the death of her best friend, a fourteen-year-old Native American girl takes on a photographic assignment with her local newspaper to cover events at the Native American summer youth camp. |
TITLE: The Night Watchman
AUTHOR: Louise Erdrich WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Erd - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: A historical novel based on the life of the author’s grandfather traces the experiences of a Chippewa Council night watchman in mid-19th-century rural North Dakota who fights Congress to enforce Native American treaty rights. |
TITLE: Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry
AUTHOR: Edited by Joy Harjo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Liv SUMMARY: A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. |
TITLE: Firekeeper's Daughter
AUTHOR: Angeline Boulley WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bou - THRILLER SUMMARY: Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths. |
TITLE: Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask
AUTHOR: Anton Treuer WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 909 Tre SUMMARY: An Ojibwe scholar and cultural preservationist answers the most commonly asked questions about Native Americans, both historical and modern. |
TITLE: Borders
AUTHOR: Thomas King WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Kin - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A boy and his mother refuse to identify themselves as American or Canadian at the border and become caught in the limbo between nations when they claim their citizenship as Blackfoot. |
TITLE: My Heart Is a Chainsaw
AUTHOR: Stephen Graham Jones WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Jon - HORROR SUMMARY: Protected by horror movies -- especially the ones where the masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them, Jade Daniels, an angry, half-Indian outcast, pulls us into her dark mind when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian lake. |
TITLE: Mongrels
AUTHOR: Stephen Graham Jones WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Jon - HORROR SUMMARY: Enduring a hardscrabble, marginalized existence with his impoverished family outside of a society that does not understand or want him, a young boy travels in the night to escape legal harassment while his family watches diligently to see if he will display the same differences that have shaped their unusual lives. |
TITLE: Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices
AUTHOR: Edited by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale CALL NUMBER: 704.03 Dre SUMMARY: Looks at over fifty emerging and established contemporary Native American artists. |
TITLE: God Is Red: A Native View of Religion
AUTHOR: Vine Deloria CALL NUMBER: 299 Del SUMMARY: Presents a comprehensive study of Native American religious views and argues that contemporary Christianity has failed in modern society. |
TITLE: "All the Real Indians Died Off:" And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
AUTHOR: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker CALL NUMBER: 970.004 Dun SUMMARY: Examines myths about Native American culture and traces their development to reveal the fear, prejudice, and larger political agenda at their roots. |
TITLE: The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
AUTHOR: David Treuer CALL NUMBER: 970 Tre SUMMARY: An anthropologist's chronicle of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present traces the unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention of distinct tribe cultures that assimilated into mainstream life to preserve Native identity. |
TITLE: Apple: Skin to the Core
AUTHOR: Eric L. Gansworth CALL NUMBER: 921 Gan SUMMARY: Eric Gansworth tells the story of his life and family through poems about their Onondaga heritage, from the horrible legacy of government boarding schools, to watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to his fight to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. |
TITLE: The Only Good Indians
AUTHOR: Stephen Graham Jones CALL NUMBER: F Jon - HORROR SUMMARY: Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier by killing them, their families, and friends. |
TITLE: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
AUTHOR: David Grann CALL NUMBER: 976.6 Gra SUMMARY: Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. |
TITLE: Hearts Unbroken
AUTHOR: Cynthia Leitich Smith CALL NUMBER: F Smi - NOVELS SUMMARY: Louise Wolfe breaks up with her first boyfriend after he makes a racist remark about her Native American heritage, and begins covering the multicultural casting of the new school play and the racial hostilities it has exposed. |
TITLE: Future Home of the Living God
AUTHOR: Louise Erdrich CALL NUMBER: F Erd - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: After evolution stopped, people began to panic when pregnancy and childbearing became a problem. As Cedar, who's four months pregnant, soon finds out while watching a pregnant woman get wrenched from her family, the new law is unethical. Cedar travels north to evade capture while she experiences fraught love with the baby's father, who helps her hide. |
TITLE: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
AUTHOR: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 970.004 Dun SUMMARY: A history of the United States for young people told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, revealing how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the U.S. empire. |
TITLE: When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
AUTHOR: Edited by Joy Harjo CALL NUMBER: 811 Whe SUMMARY: United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. |
TITLE: There, There
AUTHOR: Tommy Orange WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ora - NOVELS SUMMARY: 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 the Big Oakland Powwow. |
TITLE: The Marrow Thieves
AUTHOR: Cherie Dimaline CALL NUMBER: FIC Dim - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions struggle to survive as they make their way up north to the old lands. For now, survival means staying hidden... but what they don't know is that one of them holds the secret to defeating the marrow thieves. |
TITLE: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
AUTHOR: Robin Wall Kimmerer CALL NUMBER: 305.897 Kim SUMMARY: The author discusses ways to heal the rift between people and nature. |
TITLE: Trail of Lightning
AUTHOR: Rebecca Roanhorse WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Roa - FANTASY SUMMARY: When a small town needs her help in finding a missing girl, Maggie Hoskie, a Dinâetah monster hunter, reluctantly enlists the help of an unconventional medicine man to uncover the terrifying truth behind the disappearanceand her own past. |
TITLE: #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women
AUTHOR: Edited by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 971.004 Not SUMMARY: An eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman. Stories of abuse, humiliation, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women making themselves heard and demanding change. |
TITLE: Love Medicine
AUTHOR: Louise Erdrich WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Erd - NOVELS SUMMARY: The lives and destinies of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines intertwine on and around a North Dakota Indian reservation from 1934 to 1984, in an authentic tale of survival, tenacity, tradition, injustice, and love. |
TITLE: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
AUTHOR: Sherman Alexie WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Ale SUMMARY: Author Sherman Alexie traces the relationship he had with his mother up until her death, as well as the haunting ghosts of his childhood on the Spokane Indian Reservation. |
TITLE: Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction
AUTHOR: Edited by Grace L. Dillon WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wal - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Collects science fiction stories from Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors. |
TITLE: Heart Berries
AUTHOR: Terese Marie Mailhot WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Mai SUMMARY: 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. |
TITLE: My Name Is Not Easy
AUTHOR: Debby Dahl Edwardson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Edw - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Assuming an easier name when he enrolls at a distant boarding school because white students have trouble pronouncing his Iñupiaq name, Luke is forbidden from speaking his native language and is oppressed by a formidable headmaster while bonding with other outsiders who experience their own struggles with acclimating. |
TITLE: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
AUTHOR: Sherman Alexie WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ale - NOVELS SUMMARY: Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Native American is the school mascot. |
TITLE: Storyteller
AUTHOR: Leslie Marmon Silko WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 813 Sil SUMMARY: The author uses prose and poetry to recreate the ancient stories of her family's Native American heritage. |
TITLE: Four Souls
AUTHOR: Louise Erdrich WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Erd - NOVELS SUMMARY: Fleur Pillager, an Ojibwe Native-American upset with the lumber company that stripped her reservation of trees, walks to the twin cities for revenge and lives with Polly Elizabeth Gheen, a vulnerable upper-class women who is transformed with Fleur's guidance. |
TITLE: American Indian Myths and Legends
AUTHOR: Edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 398.2 Ame SUMMARY: Contains 160 Native American folk tales. |
TITLE: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
AUTHOR: Sherman Alexie WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ale - NOVELS SUMMARY: Contains a collection of twenty-four short stories that chronicle the daily life on a Native American Indian Reservation on Spokane, Washington. |
TITLE: Crazy Brave
AUTHOR: Joy Harjo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Har SUMMARY: American poet Joy Harjo's memoir detailing her journey to becoming a poet, covering her childhood with an abusive stepfather, the Indian arts boarding school she attended, and being a single teenage mother. |
TITLE: How I Became a Ghost
AUTHOR: Tim Tingle WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tin - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Isaac, a Choctaw boy, tells of his tribe's removal from its homeland and how the exodus led him to become a ghost-one able to help those left behind. |
TITLE: A Map to the Next World: Poetry and Tales
AUTHOR: Joy Harjo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 818 Har SUMMARY: The poet draws on her own Native American heritage in a collection of lyrical poetry that explores the cruelties and tragedies of history and the redeeming miracles of human kindness. |
TITLE: No Name
AUTHOR: Tim Tingle WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tin - NOVELS SUMMARY: When his mother leaves, sixteen-year-old Bobby, a Choctaw, begins living in a hole in his backyard to avoid his abusive father, and is surprised to find friends and neighbors willing to help him. Inspired by the traditional Choctaw story. |
TITLE: Son Who Returns
AUTHOR: Gary Robinson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rob - NOVELS SUMMARY: Fifteen-year-old Mark Centeno convinces his father, who is Filipino and Mexican, to let him spend time with his mother's Chumash and Crow family in California in hopes of surfing with his friends but, instead, connects with his heritage through dance. |
TITLE: Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing
AUTHOR: Edited by MariJo Moore WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.8 Gen SUMMARY: Compelling and filled with stories of struggle and identity, this collection of nonfiction pieces written by native Americans explores the line between traditionalism and urban modernity among Native Americans, including contributions from Sherman Alexie, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Simon Ortiz, among many others. |
TITLE: Original Fire: Selected and New Poems
AUTHOR: Louise Erdrich WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Erd SUMMARY: A collection of poems that explore such themes as family, death, mourning, sensuality, and Native American and Christian beliefs. |
TITLE: Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn
AUTHOR: Larry Colton WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796.323 Col SUMMARY: Profiles a Montana high-school girls' basketball team-made up of Crow Indian and white girls from a rural town-that carries on its shoulders the dreams and hopes of a Native American tribe during their winning season. |
TITLE: Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
AUTHOR: Joseph Bruchac WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bru- HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language. They braved some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with their code, they saved countless American lives. Yet their story remained classified for more than twenty years. |
TITLE: Shrouds of White Earth
AUTHOR: Gerald Robert Vizenor WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Viz - NOVELS SUMMARY: A novel about an Indigenous artist's long journey of creativity and coming-of-awareness from White Earth Reservation to Paris. |
TITLE: The Plague of Doves
AUTHOR: Louise Erdrich WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Erd - NOVELS SUMMARY: 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 gifted storyteller grandfather. |
TITLE: War Dances
AUTHOR: Sherman Alexie WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ale - NOVELS SUMMARY: 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. |
TITLE: Flight
AUTHOR: Sherman Alexie WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ale - NOVELS SUMMARY: On the verge of committing an act of violence, a troubled, orphaned Indian teenager finds himself hurtled through time and into various bodies, before returning to himself, forever altered by his experiences. |
TITLE: Ceremony
AUTHOR: Leslie Marmon Silko WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sil - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Follows Tayo, a young Native American, after his release from a veteran's hospital following World War II as he searches for meaning and sanity in his life. |
TITLE: Hozho: Walking in Beauty--Native American Stories of Inspiration, Humor, and Life
AUTHOR: Edited by Paula Gunn Allen and Carolyn Dunn Anderson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hoz - NOVELS SUMMARY: A collection of twenty-five short fiction stories by Native American authors, focusing on Indian life in contemporary America. |
TITLE: Fools Crow
AUTHOR: James Welch WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wel - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: In the Two Medicine territory of Montana, the Pikuni Indians are forced to choose between fighting a futile war or accepting a humiliating surrender, as the encroaching numbers of whites threaten their very existenc. |
TITLE: Winter in the Blood
AUTHOR: James Welch WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wel - NOVELS SUMMARY: A sensitive young man living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana relates the haunting memories of his proud heritage while drifting through life on his father's ranch in a search for meaning. |
TITLE: House Made of Dawn
AUTHOR: N. Scott Momaday WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mom - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Abel, a young American Indian home from a foreign war, finds himself torn between his father's world on the reservation and the lure of industrial America. |