Fiction - Indigenous

Pragmatism (1907) by William James presents a philosophy that judges ideas by their practical consequences rather than by abstract principles. James argues that the meaning and truth of any belief lie in how it works in real life-whether it helps us navigate experience, solve...

The remarkable stories in Born Into This are eye-opening, razor-sharp, and entertaining, often all at once.From an Aboriginal ranger trying to instill some pride in wayward urban teens on the harsh islands off the coast of Tasmania, to those scraping by on the margins...

Murder is unthinkable to The People--a Paleolithic tribe crossing Alaska. For The People, among the first undocumented immigrants to enter the Americas, murder isn't merely tragic, it's forbidden. Murder poisons the entire tribe and puts it at odds with nature, the Spirits, and the...

Pragmatism (1907) by William James presents a philosophy that judges ideas by their practical consequences rather than by abstract principles. James argues that the meaning and truth of any belief lie in how it works in real life-whether it helps us navigate experience, solve...

Walt Longmire is back after the escapades of First Frost, and encounters one of his most baffling cases.The Sheriff of Absaroka confronts a cabal of devious outlaws who are hell bent on getting what they want, even though they have to bend and break...

I was raised to take whatever was given to me. Even if it meant marrying a man I didn't like, much less loved. There's no room for someone like me in my uncle's world and he wouldn't hesitate to commit me to a life...

At the same time intimate and sweeping, Born of the Sun tells the story of a young man from a Namibian village whose life is forever changed by global forces swirling around him. Muronga, a new father, must first navigate the changes that foreign...

Who are we? What stars must align for us to be born? How do memory and identity shape our lives? McMichael's novel subtly offers answers to these questions through the multivocal story of the relationship between a Cree residential school survivor from Manitoba and...

"Indian Tales and Others" is a captivating collection of short stories by John G. Neihardt, a writer renowned for his profound understanding and empathetic portrayal of the American West. This work focuses heavily on the spiritual traditions, cultural heritage, and daily lives of the...

Book One: The ethnic cleansing of a small Native American village near Jacksonville, Oregon made for a tragedy so monstrous that it cannot be dismissed as the inevitable consequence of competing ways of life. Book Two: Blind since birth, 14-year-old Katy falls to her...

Kíicha, takes the reader through a day of the Luiseño people as it was long ago. When the moon rises the elders tell wonderful stories and everyone settles in their Kíicha to sleep.Author: Jo A. GarciaISBN-10: 1942279094ISBN-13: 9781942279099Publisher: Great Oak PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2016Pages: 14Format:...

Nizhoni learns the A-sgi-na doesn't play fair as she unwillingly awakens the demonic forces set to destroy the Wailing Reservation and condemn her people to servitude in the afterlife.Author: Sarah WalkerISBN-10: 1662952694ISBN-13: 9781662952692Publisher: Gatekeeper PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2024Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.07lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x...

2007 - Florida Book Award Bronze Medal Winner"As an archeological tour alone the book would be worth reading, but it's the fascinating and complex characters that give the story life and vibrancy." --Rhys Bowen, New York Times bestselling authorFaye Longchamp and Joe Wolf Mantooth...

Top 12 Mystery Novels of 2017 by Strand Magazine2018 - Willa Literary Award Finalist, Contemporary Fiction"Evans' signature archaeological lore adds even more interest to this tale of love, hate, and greed." --Kirkus ReviewsA woman waits under five feet of dirt--a woman who is by...

In this timeless collection, Seneca anthropologist Arthur C. Parker shares stories of wit, bravery, and wisdom, all told through a cast of animals who share the foibles and character flaws of humans. Readers learn that boastfulness and deceit cost Fox his friendships, that the...

Tellin' It Like It Is offers a powerful introduction to Adrian C. Louis (1946-2018), one of the most unflinching Native American literary voices of the twentieth century. Drawing from a half-century of published writing--and including a few previously unpublished pieces--this collection captures the evolution...

In the midst of a global pandemic and a world on lockdown, Akweks Pine, a Haudenosaunee Seedkeeper from Earth, finds himself stranded in imperial space after traveling to dispute the illegal extraction of his family's heirloom seeds by the powerful Agristar corporation. Stranded far...

In 1988, an Arizona judge orders a kid from a Crips Gang to be flown to an Alutiiq village on Kodiak Island for rehabilitation. Not only is the remote area at the end of the world, there are rumors that giant, hairy, Ahulaq creatures...

The story is against the backdrop of an insurmountable threat, about which the world is oblivious and unable to comprehend the impact that humanity would face in the forthcoming decades. Robert Quest, an American scientist, was having a peaceful life at home in New...

Old grudges, tribal traditions, and outside influences collide for a Kiowa woman as forces threaten her family, her tribe, and the land of her ancestors, in this own-voices debut perfect for fans of Winter Counts. No one called her Mud in Silicon Valley. There,...

"And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction." ― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe...

Adam's Tree is a fictional account of life on the Cowesses First Nation in Saskatchewan during the 1940's and 50's.This period in history finds forces like regulatory policy, World War II, systemic racism, and the long reach of the depression defining reserve life and...

They came to Texas with nothing but themselves, their nine-week-old son, and an old station wagon containing all their worldly possessions, mostly filled with baby items. They learned to make do with what they had.The police thought they caught them, but these two were...

In the summer of 1587, 115 English men, women, and children disappeared from the eastern shores of what is now called the United States of America, in northern North Carolina, leaving not a button, nor shoe, nor note, only some ambiguous carvings on trees,...

Born into British society as a child of privilege and rank, Henry St. Albans finds himself about to embark on an education and a career in service to the crown when his father's financial ruin forces him in a completely different direction. Now an...

Magic awakens in early America. The Red Wraith is born.Cast into exile by his tribe for being spawn of human and spirit, Naysin is lost in a world of change as pale men from the sea arrive to plunder the riches of the New...

Author: James Fenimore CooperISBN-10: 1731700997ISBN-13: 9781731700995Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/28/2018Pages: 472Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.05d

A 15-year-old first-time hunter and her father go missing on the first day of hunting season: a wilderness guide whose only hope until now has been the ghost of his late wife, a wilderness hunt, an abandoned mine, a struggle to survive, a wolf...

Wyatt Wolf is a warrior, a man without fear. At least that's the picture he presents to the members of his Navy SEAL team. He's a stone-cold killer with a reputation as a woman magnet who needs no one.But appearances can be deceiving. Inside...

Taledo's Road is a story about the impact of westward expansion on some of the Native American tribes. The main characters and their story are fictional, but many of the historic battles and situations actually took place in American history. This story begins in...

A Native American woman's struggle to substantiate foul play after being told her daughter (two weeks Into her 13th birthday) has committed suicide In an unmonitored Women's Cell at the County Jail. Experience the treatment given to American Indians when little was done to...

Officer Eric Ruiz responded to the frantic call from the campground on his reservation. As a Native American policeman, he was used to calls regarding typical reservation crime, theft, brawling, as well as domestic and foreign violence, mostly fueled by alcohol. But this call...

The water legends in this book are from nomadic and settled groups of Native American and Asian Indians of rural India and have marked similarities. There are stories with local mythological and legendary themes covering historical as well as relatively recent periods. Each story...

Joseph Campbell suggested that we would do well to study the mythology of the land where we live instead of limiting ourselves to Greek and Hebrew mythology. Drawing from her own land, Martha Chamberlain immerses and enlightens us with skillfully interwoven stories of Cherokee...

"A Lenape Captive-Ahmeya Alone" is an exciting historical adventure based on true events during the late 1700s in the Finger Lakes area of New York State. Ahmeya has a small daughter and must learn how to survive alone in a vast forest or become...

The Dream Plane is an adventure into a dimension found by few. Daniel is one of these few who knows the way there and the way back. Through his many journeys, he has made friends as well as an enemy. This terrorist haunts the...

A Box Full of Tears is wildly gripping and entertaining book! It dares to take its readers by the eyes, into the tents and lodges of Canada's First People at the turn of the twentieth century. You will be delighted, shocked, and crushed by...

A combined edition presenting Cooper's frontier novel alongside Mark Twain's critical essay, offering both the work itself and a notable contemporary response to it.First published in 1826, The Last of the Mohicans is one of the most widely read novels of early American literature,...

"Rekindled is a historical fiction about how Roger Williams becomes the original architect of the separation of church and state. He must survive the men that intend to silence him in order to engineer and demonstrate a new society structure that will protect people...

While the Battle of the Little Bighorn is a legendary episode in American history, what happened to Sitting Bull and his followers afterward is less well known. Ruthlessly harried by US troops, roughly twenty-five hundred Sioux Indians sought refuge in Canada. They crossed at...

First published in 1920, "Smoke and Shorty" contains a wonderful selection of short stories written by Jack London, including: "The Story of the Little Man", "The Hanging of Cultus George", "The Mistake of Creation", "A Flutter in Eggs", "The Town-site for Tra-lee", and "Wonder...

A miracle saved Kelzi's life when she was younger. Now it's her turn to save others. Discovering the truth about her parents' deaths places Kelzi on a dangerous path, one where she must avenge those who have died and protect the land of her...

Sinopah, the Indian Boy is the true story of a Blackfoot Indian Boy who later became the great chief Pitarnakin, the Running Eagle.Author: James Willard SchultzISBN-10: 1387683535ISBN-13: 9781387683536Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/20/2018Pages: 66Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

In this Eighth Book of The Cabin on the Mountain series, "A Blessing From Heaven," David comes face to face with the real possibility that he may lose his family. As he does what the Bible teaches in the book of Matthew, Chapter 6,...

The Mayor's Wife is a mystery novel set in the early 20th century. Anna Katharine Green, one of the first writers of detective fiction in America, weaves a tale of love, greed, and murder. This is one of Green's most iconic novels and a...

A little boy lingers in a coma after being found frozen to death. When he miraculously recovers, his mother is overjoyed. But unease soon creeps in. A series of bizarre deaths leads her to confront the chilling evil that no one else can see.Author:...

Author: Oliver La FargeISBN-13: 9798880925704Publisher: Start Publishing PdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/16/2025Pages: 166Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d

Pulitzer Prize Winner! A Timeless Tale of Love, Tradition, and IdentitySet in the majestic landscape of the American Southwest, Laughing Boy is a powerful, award-winning novel about the clash between traditional Native American values and the pressures of modern assimilation. Winner of the Pulitzer...

Laura (Bright Star) was one of the first Indian breeds to go to college. But she paid a heavy price for doing so. She left theonly man she ever loved to do so. After graduating, she felt it was too late to go home...

Continuing the story started in The El Cholo Feeling Passes, Barton's newest novel finds college basketball coach Richard Janus in an unlikely position: he has recently become the interim rector of Urban University, the woefully underfunded public college of Choctaw, Alkansea. When Choctaw is...