Fiction - Indigenous

Greed and corruption have infiltrated the once-pristine Colorado Rockies, echoes of years past when silver miners swarmed the area like vermin, precipitating a 19th Century curse. Now a new generation delivers a different form of pollution, among them the most corrupt entity of them...

FBI agent Manny Tanno is taking some much needed R and R at the site of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. But when a death on the reservation cuts his vacation short, he learns that the secrets of the past have a...

This is a mystical novel about one man's journey to find himself as he travels with the famous Canadian-Ojibwe artist, Norval Morrisseau. As Morrisseau's secretary and traveling companion, the main character, Gilbert Pet駭 (a.k.a., Little Eagle) takes a spiritual journey of awakening throughout parts...

This short book for older children (with much information adults will also find interesting) - can be described as the most fact-filled work of fiction - about the hotly disputed Lokono-Arawak presence/non-presence in Barbados at the time of the English colonization of 1627. On...

The bushwhack killing of a deputy sheriff in Lincoln County and the brutal murder of the deputy's wife in Santa Fe County bring Police Chief Kevin Kerney and his Mescalero Apache son, Sergeant Clayton Istee, back together. The double homicide investigation is soon linked...

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Anderson comes the final novel in the Comanche series--the poignant story of a fallen woman and the man who sees her pure heart... Handsome, strong, and just a little bit dangerous, half-Comanche Chase Wolf is used to...

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award From the two-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award: a deeply moving and evocative novel of fathers and sons. Danny Kachiah is a Native American fighting not to become a casualty. His father,...

A rabbit and otter go harvesting maple sap for their pancakes and meet a new squirrel friend. A beautifully told, illustrated children's book in English and Ojibwemowin.Author: Anna Granholm, Liz GranholmISBN-10: 8985308114ISBN-13: 9798985308112Publisher: Flutterby Blossoms PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2021Pages: 46Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w...

2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award - Western Maverick - Gold Winner "Here, manifest destiny collides with native mysticism."Meet the last open range cowboy and the last nomadic Native American. Better yet, be present for their first handshake in the pages of Lakota Cowboy. Their...

Chicago: home to urban Indians and immigrants and working folks and the whole gamut of people getting by in a world that doesn't care whether they do so or not. Sacred City is an incomparable follow-up to Van Alst's award-winning debut collection, Sacred Smokes....

An Ojibwa woman has been found dead on the outskirts of the Minnesota Red Earth Reservation. The coroner ruled the death a suicide, but after an ex-lover comes back into her life saying foul play was involved, Renee LaRoche wants to prove otherwise. As...

Several sacred artifacts have gone missing from the Minnesota Red Earth Reservation and the suspect list is continuously growing. While it could be the racists from the bordering town, or a young man struggling with problems at home, or the county coroner and his...

New York Times bestselling novelists W. Michael and Kathleen O'Neal Gear have long been considered the foremost chroniclers of early Native American life. Now, in a critically acclaimed, sweeping new series, they recreate the conflict-filled years following one of the first European invasions. Seen...

Written by a Mohawk Institute Residential School survivor, this is a fierce and candid story that reveals the heartbreaking trauma of that tragic time in our history. The author portrays how the ongoing impact of the residential schools confinements has affected Indigenous communities over...

WILD SORROW is the winner of the WILLA Award for Best Literary Fiction. Welcome to the WILD Mystery Series and its sleuth, Jamaica Wild, a BLM Agent who is part Jack Reacher and part Lara Croft. In WILD SORROW, Agent Wild tracks a wounded...

Before the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person to person, by word of mouth. The rich histories of so many people were told in songs, chants, poems and stories. This was the...

Continuing the series The Best Native American Myths, Legends, and Folklore, Volume 3 offers an enjoyable look into the history of the Native American Indian.Before the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person...

The mythology of the North America Indians is a cultural treasure trove, but many of these myths and legends have been hidden away in many old books and documents. So, this vast body of wisdom has been out of reach of most people... until...

Welcome to Sitka, Alaska, a land of breathtaking vistas and beautiful fauna, where locals are trying their best to be good--and to survive--in what may be the last vestige of the Wild West. When local woman Louise Root asks private detective Cecil Younger to...

Author of Ghost Dancer, Warrior Circle, Red Moon and Ancient EnemyA Speaking Volumes OriginalA Howard Moon Deer Mystery Jack Wilder and Howard Moon Deer are back with a baffling new case. A lonely woman, recently arrived in New Mexico, has vanished mysteriously from her...

"A novel about the role of stories in our lives, those we tell ourselves about ourselves and those we agree to live by." --Globe and MailWhen Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, he has mixed emotions. Raised by the old man he...

In Roofwalker, Native American writer Susan Power explores the complexities of contemporary Native American life. Featuring both fiction and nonfiction -- "stories" and "histories" -- the book shows the ways that native traditions and beliefs work for characters who live physically and spiritually far...

This is the story of Ethan Crowe, a Lakota Sioux tracker who spent a career with the Delta Forces and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Crowe's story begins in the hellish nightmare of Bosnia, where as a young scout for a Ranger company, he and...

"Who in the west has not heard of Wetzel, the daring borderer...the Boone of North-Western Virginia." -Wills de Hass, 1851 Lewis Wetzel came of age near the end of the Revolutionary War and was an important participant in the twenty-year war be tween the...

Western, Native American Fiction comes alive in Alfred Dennis' fourth book of the Crow Killer Series. Plenty of action, adventure, and romance follow Jedidiah Bracket, known as Crow Killer, as he traverses the vast wilderness of the Rocky Mountains.Four years had passed since the...

Winner of the Readers' Favorite Five Star AwardCort s' fleet wallows at the bottom of the ocean, and his army marches for Tenochtitlan. Aided by aggrieved vassals and rapacious soldiers, Cort s has assembled an army unlike any in all the One World. Even...

Fate, time, and destiny have a way of balancing the scales set off-kilter by the actions of the greedy, whose desires are driven by a never satisfied lust to have more. Sky Tipio, a budding young Navajo artist living near Silver City, New Mexico,...

Sage Adair is working on mundane business accounts when an urgent message arrives. Within hours, he and his friends are struggling to comprehend the harsh reality of Indian reservation life. They journey into that strange and dire world to fight greed. Soon things turn...

This updated edition of National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich s 1998 novel now features fascinating new content, a new title, and a new foreword by the author a riveting story that explores tensions between Native American and white...

Child of Sonora is the story of the lives of two 7-year-old boys in the Sonora Desert. The first boy lives in Scottsdale in 2017, and the second boy lives in the Tohono O'odham Territory in 1848. The history begins during the Mexican-American War,...

Native Americans survive the Nazi Occupation of ParisIn this powerful epistolary novel, acclaimed Anishinaabe author Gerald Vizenor interweaves history, cultural stories, and irony to reveal a shadow play of truth and politics. Basile Hudon Beaulieu lives in a houseboat on the River Seine in...

FBI agent Manny Tanno thought he had left his tribe and the Pine Ridge Reservation behind him years ago. But now with a cold case unearthed in the hot plains sun, he knows that the past never really goes away. In Badlands National Park,...

Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble: set in 1926 Nashville, it follows a death-defying young Cherokee horse-diver who, with her companions from the Glendale Park Zoo, must get to the bottom...

The knowledge of the Little People of the Cherokee has been handed down by word of mouth from countless generations of the past. Even now in our modern times, there still are stories being told of the Little People. The entire Cherokee Nation, including...

What if a virus, created by people of malign intent, developed consciousness? And you were the doctor given that information, through unorthodox, thoroughly unscientific channels? Talking to spirits.Nerida and Mari are lesbians with a good life together. They travel all over Australia, visiting Indigenous...

A paranormal/sci-fi/romance novella. Aiyana escapes from a cult, but is suspicious of her new employer. Is he with the cult? Why does she feel attracted to him anyway? Guyan, owner of the mysterious company "The ORG" is suspicious of his new hire. Why is...

Daniel is a young M騁is man searching for a way to exist in a world of lateral violence, intergenerational trauma and systemic racism. Facing obstacles of his own at every turn, he observes and learns from the lived realities of his family members, friends,...

A thousand years ago in west Africa, a hero stopped a sacrifice. He cut off the head of a monster, the head flying into the air. But the Soninke princess was not saved: she was caught in an unfulfilled ritual. She was lost, immortal...

The third volume in Gary Jennings' historical epic that began with the Aztec and Aztec Autumn. Now comes the thrilling Aztec Blood. The Aztec people have been conquered and a bloody revolt of the Indians put down. The former Aztec Empire is now a...

A construction crew found the first body. The cops found three more--on both sides of the border of the Navajo Reservation. Because some of the bodies were buried outside the rez, Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah and her team must work a delicate...

Don't miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLegendary Navajo policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn takes center stage in this riveting atmospheric mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne...

"Romantic love, religious ecstasy, the strange mixture of devotion and misunderstanding that runs through families--all are steeped together. The result is a rich and fragrant infusion. . . . [Written] with great poignancy and charm." -- New York Times Book ReviewA darkly humorous novel...

Don't miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! "With The Shape Shifter, Hillerman once again proves himself the master of Southwest mystery fiction, working in a Hemingway-esque tradition of pared-down writing to...

"An intriguing combination of myth, fiction, and storytelling that demonstrates the continuing power and range of Momaday's creative vision....These are magical words. Listen." --Washington PostPulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet N. Scott Momaday shapes the ancient Kiowa myth of a boy who turned into a...

The perfect gift for Longmire fans: A boxed set of the first twelve mysteries in the New York Times bestselling Longmire mystery series With the hit television series Longmire capturing millions of viewers and Craig Johnson′s novels hitting the New York Times bestseller list,...

Colleen McCullough captivated millions with her beloved worldwide bestseller The Thorn Birds. Now she takes readers to the birth of modern Australia with a breathtaking saga brimming with drama, history, and passion. Following the disappearance of his only son and the death of his...

From award-winning author Lori Armstrong comes a gripping tale of brutal murder, as former army sniper Mercy Gunderson learns anew when she returns to the family ranch that, for the weak, the western plains of South Dakota hold...NO MERCY. The body of a teenage...

'This engrossing novel immerses the reader in the reality of post-Civil War America, following the intertwining stories of a freed slave, a high-minded West Point cadet, and a strong-willed young woman struggling to live their lives in an era of brutality and greed...the outcome...

The Legend of Everett Ruess follows the adventures of the young vagabond as he roamed the southwest in the early thirties. In this compelling narrative, Robert Louis DeMayo has taken journal excerpts, poems, and letters Everett sent to family and friends and turned them...

The practice and celebration of storytelling is a touchstone of cultural survival for First Nation People right across Canada. With Taapoategl & Pallet, Peter Clair adds his voice to this narrative tradition and makes a contribution to Indigenous literature. The Mi'kmaq culture was one...