Fiction - Indigenous

They Call Me Chief; is a novel for the whole family to read, it is the story of Johnny a young Indian boy, who finds himself caught between two cultures, that of the red man and white, it is his story of dealing with...

Thomas Begay's longtime drinking buddy Harley Ponyboy, along with Investigator Charlie Yazzie's former Archaeology Professor, become the target of a ruthless Indian rights movement-a group bent on destroying a dig that could change the perception of an ancient people. Dark secrets are revealed in...

Two extraordinary stories set five generations apart are connected by a violent colonial history, in Melissa Lucashenko's stunning historical epic 'Lucashenko is a national treasure: there are no two ways around it.' Vogue Australia Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award * Longlisted for...

When a Native teenager vanishes from her small town--a place with dark ties to an elite historical society--archaeologist Syd Walker is called to investigate...from bestselling author Vanessa Lillie. In the hours before dawn at a local summer camp, Bureau of Indian Affairs archaeologist Syd...

Oh, this book. With gritty intimacy, cinematic poetics, and clear-eyed devotion, Paige Buffington transports us through memory and dream to a place where time might be told by the migration of cranes. Buffington explores not only what is home, but who is our home?...

The past and future collide in this gripping new addition to the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. It's the summer of 1964, and recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear read the writing on the wall and enlist to serve...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL, CBC, ELLE CANADA, LITERARY HUB, NATIONAL POST, AND DAILY HIVE "An achingly gorgeous debut novel of Indigenous survival.... This is a breathtaking...

There, There meets Winter Counts in this gripping literary debut about power and corruption, love lost and gained, and the importance of facing one's past head on.Mitch Caddo started out with the best of intentions. After his mother's sudden death in a car crash,...

An imaginative retelling of the triumphs and sorrows of one of the most controversial and misunderstood women in Mexico's history and mythology, perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow and Zoraida C?rdova's The Inheritance of Orqu?dea Divina.A real-life historical figure,...

When the Blackouts' star player Nevil Dooley wakes one morning to don a frock and 'eyeshada', his mother's idle days at the bingo hall are gone forever. Mystified and clueless, single parent Mavis takes to bush-cunning and fast footwork to unravel the mystery behind...

Julia, a mixed-race woman born into slavery in Louisiana, escapes brutal plantation life only to be captured by the Comanche. She holds tight to her dream of Canada and freedom as she unwillingly witnesses the acts of savagery the Indians perpetrate against the whites.Later...

Police Captain John Iron Hawk's life is a speeding vehicle down a deserted road. A road with his tormented past looming at his back and a future summed up by the black thunder clouds building on the horizon.His relationship with his daughter is nonexistent....

A courageous law officer fighting corruption. Can he hunt down an assassin on the reservation... or will he be permanently silenced? Little River Reservation. Police Captain John Iron Hawk serves his people with pride. With a crucial election on the horizon, the strong and...

A long-kept secret bubbles up and starts changing lives, when a sudden mysterious death triggers even deeper upheavals. No one can be sure if it was an accident, suicide, or murder.The question ripples outward, casting a shadow over the beauty and spiritual influence of...

In the third action-packed thriller of the West Quebec series, Meg Harris is back more determined than ever to fight against injustice, but sometimes the line between right and wrong is fuzzy. During a wild, whitewater paddle down a wilderness river, Meg discovers the...

Legendary lawman Blade Holmes is sent north into Wyoming, Nebraska, and South Dakota.; what starts out as a simple assignment soon turns into one of the most harrowing of Blade Holmes career. The Ghost Dance is spreading among the tribes, reaching from Nevada to...

Minnesota, 1970s: 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...

Author: Ralph ComptonISBN-10: 1250385091ISBN-13: 9781250385093Publisher: GriffinLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/1999Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.38w x 0.68d

When the British arrived in Winnipeg in the 1800s it was convenient for the men to take Metis wives. They were called a la vacon du pays - according to the custom of the country. These women bore the brunt of ensuring survival in...

When a young girl goes missing, the ghosts of the past collide with her family's secrets in a mesmerizing Native American Southern Gothic When six-year-old Laurel Taylor vanishes without a trace, her family is left shattered, struggling to navigate the darkness of grief and...

In 1817, explorers Spix and Martius returned from their three-year voyage in Brazil with not only an extensive account of their journey, but also with an Indigenous boy and girl, I?e-e and Juri. Kidnapped from rival tribes as part of the colonialist trend of...

The Greeks have Narcissus and the Haudenosaunee have the Cornhusk Doll. They both stared into pools to admire themselves and got punished. Narcissus fell in love with himself. The Cornhusk Doll had her face taken away by her Creator, so she was no longer...

One young woman's relentless quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut will irrevocably alter the fates of the people she loves most in this tour de force of a debut about ambition, belonging, and family. My mother took my sister and me, and she...

A haunting, unforgettable novel of obsession, pride, and forgiveness, exploring the friendship and rivalry between two gifted boys in harrowing circumstances, from the acclaimed writer ofThe RemovedMilton Muleborn has envied Matthew Echota, a talented young Cherokee artist, ever since they were locked up together...

A young man's journey to find four fallen stars.After watching the stars falling to earth, he is whisked into the land of dreams where he is told that the discovery of each star will also reveal one of life's many secrets. A voyage that...

A sharply humorous tale of romantic love and cultural warfare. Author: Melissa LucachenkoISBN-10: 0702265713ISBN-13: 9780702265716Publisher: University of Queensland Pr (Australia)Language: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2024Pages: 296Format: Paperback

From the imagination of an Ojibway Mohawk Native American comes Native American Fairy tale about a native american girl named Katrine a native american boy named Manuel and their pet frog named Ribbit. The story will take you through many magical and enchanted settings...

When Abortion was Against the Law, Attorney Clara Foltz Confronts the EstablishmentIn the fifth mystery of the best-selling and award-winning Portia of the Pacific series, Attorney and Detective Clara Shortridge Foltz and her partner, Attorney Laura de Force Gordon, become involved in two trials....

A young man is haunted by a mythological specter bent on stealing everything he loves in this unsettling horror from the author of Indian Burial Ground and Sisters of the Lost Nation. For fear of summoning evil spirits, Native superstition says you should never,...

It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby, spending his days trying to avoid trouble with the nuns at the local Catholic primary school. One evening his Aunty Oona appears on the doorstep, distressed...

The apparent suicide of a young Arapaho on sacred ground shocks the populace of the Wind River Reservation. But strange events following the death lead Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley to suspect foul play.Author: Margaret CoelISBN-10: 0425185788ISBN-13: 9780425185780Publisher: Berkley / NalLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2002Pages:...

Father O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden return When a sacred tribal artifact disappears from a museum, it's more than Arapaho history that is lost--it's an Arapaho student's life...Author: Margaret CoelISBN-10: 042517025XISBN-13: 9780425170250Publisher: Berkley / NalLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1999Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 6.74h x 4.86w...

Author: Tracey LindbergISBN-10: 1443451355ISBN-13: 9781443451352Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2024Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by Cherokee author Thomas King. Alberta is a university professor...

Set in Montreal, Ottawa and Nunavik (Northern Quebec), Looking for Her explores the intersecting lives of women in search of themselves. Cate, 43, is a university professor in an unfulfilling marriage. When Nuna, the young Inuk woman she mentors, disappears, Cate and her friend,...

Wutamo's Song is the fictional memoir of a Native American - Wutamoquok, Elder and Keenomp, or Valiant one, of the Narragansett People - who lived during the turbulent years of the 17th century. Narrated by Wutamo himself on the eve of King Phillip's War,...

Kaya and Jamaal were young and scared when they did what they did. They knew it was the noble, right thing to do, but it still wounded them to their core. Kaya never made peace with their decision, and when their son, Tommy, died...

The son of a white man and a Cherokee, Joseph Willis must live as a slave on his own property. His struggle for freedom is complicated by a love forbidden by society and his newfound spiritual faith. With a faith molded by tragedy, Joseph...

Now a revered Nagchaw elder, Jos reminisces about the lessons learned since her life took a dramatic shift in her mid-twenties. Needing to redefine herself after a family tragedy, Jos goes forward in a challenging new direction.Ultimately, she moves on to the ancestral home...

The first three books in the Amazon #1 Best Selling Paranormal Suspense series! When the crows gather over a remote Navajo Reservation in the deep Southwest, it is a sign that the thin veil that separates our world from the one beyond is about...

Book 1 in the Amazon #1 Best Selling Paranormal Suspense Series! Ben Dejooli is a Navajo cop who can't escape his past. Six years ago his little sister Ana vanished without a trace. His best friend saw what happened, but he refuses to speak...

In 1914, most of the world is focused on The Great War, but a much quieter story is taking place in a remote mountain region in northern California and western Nevada with the tale of two twelve-year-old boys and a legendary, wild horse from...

In this brilliant novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the page. In the 1950s Gulf Country of Queensland's far North, black and white...

2025 Reprint of the 1929 Edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: "A romantic idyll played out in the rhythms and meanings of a vanished Navajo world." -The Denver PostLa Farge's enduring American classic and first novel captures the essence of the Southwest in 1915....

It is 1938 in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon as Zed Moonhawk helps train a group of Civilian Conservation Corpsmen who are excavating and rebuilding Anasazi ruins. Moonhawk is exceptionally skilled at his masonry work--as well he should be. After all, he was there when...

From the co-editor of the bestselling anthology Never Whistle at Night, a semi-autobiographical novel that follows a group of teenage gang members as they trek across Chicago to a momentous meeting, inspired by the cult classic The Warriors "Cool and real as hell." --Tommy...

Some of the greatest heroes don't always wear capes and spandex. For some, the greatest heroes wear feathers and shawls and stand up against big oil companies to protect our Mother Earth from pollution. For Eli Tecumseh, his dad is his greatest hero, and...

During the last century, strange tales have drifted from the Sierra Madre Mountains; rumors of battles, murders, robberies, and kidnappings between Mexicans and a mysterious, wild people. Recovering from double amputations, US Marine Nick Diaz returns from Afghanistan seeking healing at his family's border...

Among the most memorialized women in American history, Sacajewea served as interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery. In this visionary novel, acclaimed Indigenous author Debra Magpie Earling brings this mythologized figure vividly to life, casting unsparing light on the men...

Bigfoot Vs Wendigo"Balance is everything, and when it shatters, the darkness rises."The snow-covered forests of the north have always been shrouded in mystery, their silence broken only by whispers of ancient legends. Among them, none is more feared than the Wendigo-a monstrous spirit born...