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21) A heart for home
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Series
Home to blessing novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Astrid and Joshua discover God's plans for them through difficult circumstances in the conclusion to this prairie romance series set in South Dakota.
22) Yellow earth
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
In Yellow Earth, the site of Three Nations reservations on the banks of the Missouri River in North Dakota, Sayles introduces us to Harleigh Killdeer, chairman of the Tribal Business Council. "An activist in his way, a product of the Casino Era," Kildeer, who is contracted by oil firm Case and Crosby, spearheads the new Three Nations Petroleum Company. Harleigh claims to be securing oil profits for the reservation, but his alliance with a highly dubious...
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Series
Clyde Barr novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
A follow-up to Nothing Short of Dying finds Clyde Barr assisting a sick and elderly Ute whose Native American community is being overrun by a menacing biker gang that is harassing and attacking locals.
Author
Series
Caitlin Strong novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong fights a new enemy, an ISIS group interested in a devastating weapon on Texas soil. The oil drilling on an Indian reservation is steeped in mystery and controversy and a secret from the past may trigger an Armageddon from the canyonlands.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California...
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Series
Walking in two worlds volume 1
Pub. Date
2021
Description
"An indigenous teen girl is caught between two worlds both real and virtual in the YA fantasy debut from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew. Bugz is caught between two worlds. In the real world, she's a shy and self-conscious Indigenous teen who faces the stresses of teenage angst and reserve life. But in the virtual world, her alter ego is not just confident but dominant in a massive multiplayer video game universe. Feng is a teen boy who has...
30) Resolution
Pub. Date
2013
Description
In an abandoned cabin on the edge of an Indian reservation, Mike stages a risky intervention to force his friend Chris off meth and into rehab. But what begins as an attempt to save his friend's life takes an unexpected turn when ominous threats start appearing around the house and they realize that Chris's addictions are the least of their worries.
31) The brave
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Collin has a unique condition that causes him to count every letter spoken to him. After being kicked out of yet another school, Collin's father sends him to live with his Ojibwe mother whom he has never met. Collin receives a warm and accepting welcome when he arrives in Minnesota. He becomes friends with a girl, Orenda, and finds the courage to work on overcoming his challenges."--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"The Wolf's Trail tells of Zhi-shay', an elder wolf, and a litter of young wolves living somewhere on the side of a hill overlooking the river that flows through Nagahchiwanong in northern Minnesota. Zhi-shay', who knows the whole story of the parallel relationship between wolves and the Ojibwe going all the way back to the Beginning, sharing it with his nieces and nephews, and us. Replete with universal lessons, The Wolf's Trail is the story of the...
33) Forever cousins
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Amanda and Kara are cousins and best friends in an intertribal Native American family; but Kara's family leaves the city and moves back to the Rez, making both girls sad--but the summer reunion reminds them that they will always be cousins.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Red Nation Rising is the first book ever to investigate and explain the violent dynamics of bordertowns. Bordertowns are white-dominated towns and cities that operate according to the same political and spatial logics as all other American towns and cities. The difference is that these settlements get their name from their location at the borders of current-day reservation boundaries, which separates the territory of sovereign Native nations from...
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Series
Spirit Road mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Native American FBI special agent Manny Tano investigates the murder of local land developer Jason Red Cloud, who was discovered with a war club in his skull on the site of his new resort on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Author
Series
Sharon McCone mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
After her father's death, private investigator Sharon McCone finds her own adoption papers among his things. Her search for the truth takes her to the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, where she unearths old hatreds and present-day violence.
Series
Colorado experience volume 113
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"Colorado Experience takes you through the history of the state's original inhabitants: the Utes. Historians trace their origins from pre-colonial days and early interactions with American trappers and explorers through the escalating friction with new settlers and gold seekers, to their ultimate expulsion to reservations. The first Ute reservations were established in the 1860's, and today the question of land rights remains a topic of dispute for...
39) Indian pipes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Victoria Trumbull, ninety-two-year-old native of Marthas Vineyard, is savoring the sea air over Vineyard Sound with her granddaughter, Elizabeth, when she spots a person who seems in trouble near the top of the cliff. Elizabeth goes for help, but its too late-the man dies before he can be rescued. The man had been hired as a consultant to see whether a sites soil could support a sewage system for a possible casino. The police call it an accident,...