Fiction - Indigenous

Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent skills have cracked many cases--she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her...

This new collection of horror short fiction weaves together contemporary Arctic settings with ancient monsters and mysterious beings that have been said to stalk the tundra for centuries. Featuring authors from across the Canadian Arctic, this new volume of Taaqtumi--an Inuktitut word that means...

In his most accomplished novel to date, Roger DeBlanck delivers an unforgettable contemporary story of a young Native American man on the road to recovery. Abuse and addiction have ruined Thomas Newsome's youth, but he refuses to follow the wasted path of his father,...

When a team of researchers from Canada's Arctic Institute travel to York Factory to disinter a grave, they unwittingly stumble upon more than they bargained for buried in the permafrost. Their research is focused on the old Hudson Bay Company fort cemetery, where they...

A must-have collector's item for horror fans, comprised of two novels, The Babysitters Lives and The Killer on the Road, from the new master of horror Stephen Graham Jones. The Babysitter Lives When high school senior Charlotte agrees to babysit the Wilbanks twins, she...

Indians kidnap Mama and little Elsa. Fourteen-year-old Ryker Landstad promises his dying father to take the nine-year-old twins to safety. Despite the danger, they endeavor to reach Fort Abercrombie, trailed by deadly enemies.Ryker Landstad had aspirations of fleeing their prairie homestead to join his...

Author: Peata Larkin, Whiti HereakaISBN-10: 1991016794ISBN-13: 9781991016799Publisher: Massey UniversityLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2025Pages: 96Format: Hardcover

Author: Stephen Graham JonesISBN-10: 1797197940ISBN-13: 9781797197944Publisher: Simon & Schuster AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2025Format: CD

When an entire population of Anasazi people mysteriously vanish, it is up to a team of modern-day archaeologists to unlock the secret of their disappearance.The year is 1198 and Shadow Dancer looks down on his home in Chaco Canyon from his cliff-side perch. His...

Legendary tribal sleuths Leaphorn and Chee are back The supremely talented daughter of New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman continues his popular series with this fresh, new mystery--her debut novel--filled with captivating lore, startling suspense, bold new characters, vivid color, and rich atmosphere....

Take one woman, her partner Antman and their dog Fleabag, pack up the car, turn up the country music and you've got one spirited road trip makin' room for all the good things in life, like family, laughin', travellin' and, best of all, love....

This book is based on true events, turned into a fictional story. In response to the one-star review, claiming the author's disrespect towards the Native Americans, and lack of knowing the tribes, much of it is taken from the accounts written by the woman...

A gripping sci-fi thriller--and Native American First Contact story--from the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse, Daniel Wilson, who is a Cherokee Nation citizen and works as a threat forecaster for NASA. Heliopause is a real place--the very outer edge of our solar...

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...

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...

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 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

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...

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

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...

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...

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....

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...