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"A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's reservation lead her to delve into the myths and stories of her people, all while being haunted herself, in this atmospheric and stunningly poignant debut. Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. For the bullies who torment her, for the entitled visitors at the reservation's casino...and for the nameless, disembodied entity that stalks her every...
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Storyteller trilogy volume 1
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A historical novel on the Aleut people, who inhabited prehistoric Alaska. The hero is Chakliux, a trader of hunting dogs who becomes embroiled in tribal intrigues, leading to murder and the massacre of dogs. Lots of detail on the Aleut way of life.
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Cash McLendon novels volume 2
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After barely escaping nemesis Killer Boots in the tiny Arizona Territory town of Glorious, Cash McLendon is in desperate need of a safe haven. In Dodge City, he falls in with a band of buffalo hunters heading south to forbidden Indian Territory in the Texas Panhandle. But no good can come of entering the prohibited lands they've crossed into.
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2012
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241 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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After the Civil War, increasing numbers of white settlers struggled with the Indians for land on the plains - a situation tailor-made for Major Samuel Burkhalter's dreams of personal glory. But Lt. Martin Keefe saw the Major's ambition ruin his father's career, and now it is threatening his own. And Joe Moya's wife and children were killed in a massacre by the Major's troop. Hungry for revenge, Moya arranges an ambush at Rialto Creek.
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2015.
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328 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"Luke Sunday is relieved of his position as an army scout after his opposition to the army's attack on a peaceful Cheyenne village. Desperate for work, he agrees to guide a couple to across hostile country to the Gallatin Valley"--
67) Cry Dance
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If there's one thing that Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmett Quanah Parker knows, it's that the dead don't always stay dead. When the corpse of a woman, brutally murdered and bizarrely mutilated, is discovered on Havasupai Nation land, Parker is paired with FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed in a hastily assembled task force of two. The two share a mixed Native American ancestry—and little else. As they are pulled deeper into a complex...
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First North Americans volume 11
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2003
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560 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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"Matthew has grown up in hell. His father is gone, and his mother drinks and hooks up with men--men who abuse Matthew and his sister, until he finally decides to hit the streets of Farmington to get away from this--and to drink himself to death, in the way that he feels he's destined to. But something happens. A man, Chris, saves him. Takes him home and cleans him up. Gets him sober. And initiates Matthew into one of Albuquerque's Native American...
71) Harvest House
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2023
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"Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her American Indian Youth Literature Award winner Hearts Unbroken. Halloween is near, and Hughie Wolfe is volunteering at a new rural attraction: Harvest House. He's excited to take part in the fun, spooky show--until he learns that an actor playing the vengeful spirit of an "Indian maiden," a ghost inspired...
72) Wandering stars
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"'Wandering Stars' traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in 'There There'"--
"Colorado, 1864, Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison-castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on...
73) Hearts unbroken
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2018.
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When Louise Wolfe's boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. She'd rather spend her senior year with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, an ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper's staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school musical director's inclusive approach to casting The...
75) Cade's revenge
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[2023]
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349 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
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Follow Cade McCall as he rides the Chisholm Trail, crosses raging rivers, faces cattle rustlers and fights marauding Indians while taking a herd of longhorns north to Kansas. He reaches his destination only to be devastated by the most heinous act he has ever encountered. Driven by a rage-filled determination, Cade begins his search for justice, a search that ends with Cade's Revenge.
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John Hawk volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
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351 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"James Pratt and his young bride press on toward the Bitterroot Valley, deep in Sioux territory, after their wagon master deserts them and seemingly disappeared. James' brother Mason enlists legendary Indian scout John Hawk to find them against deadly odds"--
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Pub. Date
2009
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383 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
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By 1300 AD, the Sky Hand people had crushed and enslaved the Albaamaha people and built their high-walled capital, Split Sky City, to dominate towns up and down the Black Warrior River. But a violent wind is brewing that may topple the city's mighty walls.
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They were introduced to their culture but never identified with it, never believed in its power. During an elk hunt, a disturbing event occurs. Ten years later, tracked by an entity bent on revenge, these childhood friends are helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in violent, vengeful ways. Now they are in a desperate struggle for their lives-- and the lives of all they love. -- adapted from jacket and perusal of...
80) Tribal journey
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©2013
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111 pages ; 18 cm.
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Sixteen-year-old Jason is left with a paralyzed leg after a car accident and it is only after becoming involved with his Duwamish mother's tribe and learning to "pull" a canoe that he begins to see himself as more than a boy in a wheelchair.
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