Fiction - Indigenous

Among the most memorialized women in American history, Sacajewea served as interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery. In this visionary novel, acclaimed Indigenous author Debra Magpie Earling brings this mythologized figure vividly to life, casting unsparing light on the men...

Bigfoot Vs Wendigo"Balance is everything, and when it shatters, the darkness rises."The snow-covered forests of the north have always been shrouded in mystery, their silence broken only by whispers of ancient legends. Among them, none is more feared than the Wendigo-a monstrous spirit born...

Past and present collide in Northern Washington State, as an evil from the past makes its presence known once again. Bishop, along with Casey and Troy, have begun a new life together hunting monsters. But when something horrific awakens, they find their world thrown...

Skin of the MoonBeneath the blood-red moon, the curse awakens.In the remote desert town of Black Hollow, Arizona, something ancient stirs. People are vanishing, and the ones who return... aren't the same. Their skin peels away to reveal fur, teeth sharpen into fangs, and...

Under the shadow of gray clouds, three children venture into the woods, where they spot the corpse of an old man on a scaffold. Suddenly a wild figure emerges, with long fingernails and tangled hair. It is the Hattak fullih nipi foni, the bone...

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...

The prize-winning international bestseller--800,000 copies sold in Brazil Shortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024 Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.' "Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Little did she know...

They call me Chief-The Final Chapter, Is the last book in a series of three, about the life of Johnny Two Bears a young Indian boy, growing up both on and off the reservation. The death of his father forces him into a white...

They Still Call me Chief, Is a continuation of the life of Johnny Two Bears, a young Indian boy that is caught in the clash of two cultures, that of the red man, and white, It is his story of trying to fit into...

She's not sacrificing anything without a fight. As a survivor enters an uncertain landscape, can she protect the ones she cherishes?Arizona Territory, 1871. Talks Like Thunder can't imagine life outside of her Apache family. So after both her parents succumb to deadly disease, her...

Mallory Montana, where missing persons go to die Cold Case disappearances in western Montana gave renewed relevance to a local Native American legend of Saka'am Skaltamiax, a malevolent entity from the caverns of Great Northern Mountain. But Sheriff Jim Buchanan believed in his daughter,...

The Killing Zone, a gritty tale of revenge, mayhem, murder, and miracles.After an outlaw motorcycle gang's rampage of rape, torture, and executions, they cross paths with Native American Sheriff Jim Buchanan. When they brutalize and kidnap a member of Jim's own family, he pursues...

They say dead men tell no tales but do their spirits?Sheriff Jim Buchanan discovers a mutilated corpse on reservation land and investigates a series of similar slayings. Everyone believes the killing is over when the main suspect commits suicide but Jim knows better. He...

Montana Harvest is an Independent Publishers of New England (IPNE) 2017 Book Award Winner in the Mystery/Suspense categoryMurder for profit meets Native American justiceThe FBI contacts Cedar County Montana, Sheriff Jim Buchanan concerning several missing person investigations. As the case consumes him and threatens...

In 1796, the men at Fort Kenay or Russian Redoubt Saint Nicholas are terrified. A ghost, a woman in a tattered white dress, screams nightly along the banks of the Kenai River below the bluffs where the fort stands. Young Nicholas arrives with Captain...

The Native American Indians populated the entire landmass of what would later become the United States of America. When the Spanish arrived, they settled in present-day St. Augustine, Florida, and celebrated the first Thanksgiving on September 8, 1565. The next Spanish settlers out west...

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...

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...

Restless Classics presents the Three-Hundredth Anniversary Edition of Robinson Crusoe, the classic Caribbean adventure story and foundational English novel, with new illustrations and an introduction by Jamaica Kincaid that contextualizes the book for our globalized, postcolonial era. When Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe in...

For many years people have seen the Indians as people riding bareback on horses wielding bow and arrow against a circled wagon train. Very few people remember the Indians of the Northeast, the people that were here when the Europeans arrived. Most do not...

Driving home, law student Paulo passes a figure at the side of the road. The indigenous girl stands in the heavy rain, as if waiting for something. Paulo gives her a lift to her family's roadside camp. Through sudden shifts in the characters' lives,...

When a deathbed confession leads RCMP Constable Jasper Nelson to discover the existence of his illegitimate sister, his curiosity is piqued and he sets out to find her. He locates the young woman a year later where he least expects to, within the police...

"With its profound exploration of identity, language, and cultural survival, Old School Indian is a novel of pure heart and mastery. Through the vivid and deeply human lives of a Mohawk family, Curtis weaves a narrative that is both urgent and timeless, drawing us...

Step into the rich tapestry of Native American culture with "Tales from the American Indians." This collection of stories from various tribes across North America invites you to explore the profound legends, deities, and myths that have shaped the spiritual and cultural landscapes of...

"Anne Hillerman deserves recognition as one of the finest mystery authors currently working in the genre."--New York Journal of BooksIn this gripping chapter in New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman's Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series, the detectives must sort out a save-the-planet meditation...

As the American Civil War begins, time is working against Annabelle and the Lighting-Strongman family. Joseph stands before the blue eyes of a mother as the missing puzzle piece to Annabelle's dark past. Choices will have to be made as Judy Mays gains more...

A love that transcends time - can a modern woman leave everything behind for a Lakota warrior from the 18th century? Cursed as a werewolf. Banished from his tribe. Transported to present day America. Towering skyscrapers loomed. Roaring engines echoed. White Eagle met kind...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future,...

A troubled Chicago physician sets off on an urgent road trip across the Plains to reach his dying father's bedside. When he arrives on the impoverished Indian reservation he fled as a teen he discovers his dwindling family sick, the neglected hospital facing closure,...

Book 8 in the Gabriel Hawke NovelsAn abandoned vehicle...A missing man...Oregon State Trooper Gabriel Hawke discovers an abandoned vehicle at a trailhead while checking hunters. The owner of the vehicle never arrived at his destination. As Hawke follows leads, he learns the man was...

From the internationally bestselling author of the "extraordinary" (Fredrik Backman) novel Stolen comes a harrowing story--inspired by true events--of five Indigenous children forced to attend a government-run boarding school in 1950s Sweden, revealing the emotional scars they carry thirty years later.In the 1950s near...

Inspired by actual events - the attempted murder of a NZ physicist who invented a free-energy machine, the conviction of the head of London Metropolitan Police for corruption and grand theft of millions from Britain's foreign aid program - this thriller plunges you into...

"Call me Rae; it's easier," I've said more times than I can remember. No one knows that Rae is short for Raven, the name I've used as a cover for my hacking activities since before I was even a teenager. If you need information,...

The first Nathan Active mystery Born to a poor Inupiat girl in Chukchi, Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle, State Trooper Nathan Active was adopted and raised by a white family in Anchorage. Now, an unwelcome job reassignment has returned him to the stark,...

Author: M. K. AlejaISBN-13: 9798990039001Publisher: Taotao-Ta Press LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/29/2024Pages: 376Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.84dReview Citation(s): PW Booklife Reviews 08/19/2024

Defying betrayal and hardship, Chato fights to save his family and his people's rightful place in the West.As the Apache Wars roar toward their conclusion in the summer of 1886, renowned Apache army scout and leader Chato joins a delegation of scouts to Washington,...

Rampant social and racial discrimination in the American Southwest during the 1940s offered little opportunity for a community of Yaqui miners from Sonora, Mexico.The choice was clear: labor in the dangerous copper mines like previous generations and dream of someday making it big on...

The exciting sequel to the gunslinging, dragon-riding world of The Mountain Crown Sephihal? ele Janan sits in a prison cell in the southern island of Mazemoor, dreaming of escape. After months in a provisional prison for fighting for the imperial Kattakans, Janan is sponsored...

"Wonderful. . . hopeful, wrenching, funny, sexy, intense, and penetratingly true."--Los Angeles Times Book ReviewFrom acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes a tale of spiritual death and reawakening; of money, desperate love, and wild hope; and of the enduring power of...

Raven Games is a novel focused on four characters: (1) David Elwin, who studies Grizzly bear populations in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Canada and who is drawn into the world of Haida spirituality by (2) Jamie Bear Mother's Daughter and (3) her Grandfather,...

All stories have a beginning, before the first words are even written. The idea that germinates for years, in the heart before the mind brings it into form. This story really began in the Presidential campaign of 1960 and the few but fertile years...

Police Chief Nathan Active investigates a plane crash out in Alaska's Big Empty--and what he finds there casts suspicion of murder on several locals in his small town of Chukchi. Evie Kavoonah, a young mother-to-be, and her fianc , Dr. Todd Brenner, are on...

In a land ravaged by war and vengeance, Yellow Boy, the last warrior of the Mescalaro stands tall, fighting for the soul of his people.As the nineteenth century gives way to the twentieth, the borderlands of New Mexico, Arizona, Chihuahua, and Sonora are aflame...

This fascinating volume collects together myths and legends from across the North American continent, ranging from the Tlingit of Alaska to the Sioux and Cherokee of the Great Plains to the Seneca of the Atlantic coast. With stories on the creation of the world,...

The fictional worlds created by many contemporary American and Canadian Indigenous novelists for young people provide unique access to the lived experiences of Indigenous people, past, present, and future and the often inaccessible worlds they inhabit. Readers aged 10-16 will gain many insights about...

Upon his release from prison for involuntary manslaughter, Billy Blackhawk came home to nothing but scorn and ridicule, being made to feel like a traitor to his community - and his heritage - for having killed a fellow Native American - even if it...

"Wonderful. . . hopeful, wrenching, funny, sexy, intense, and penetratingly true."--Los Angeles Times Book ReviewFrom acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes a tale of spiritual death and reawakening; of money, desperate love, and wild hope; and of the enduring power of...

Within the beautiful and outspoken Cogewea, there is sometimes unrest. A living dichotomy, the half-blood girl is caught between the world of her father, a European rancher; and that of her mother, a proud full-blooded Okanagan. When a battle for her affections sees suitors...

Continue on the journey with Aggretta, a Mountain Shoshone medicine woman, and Jim, an aging mountain man. In this, last in a series of three, novel, these two unlikely companions, along with their spirit helpers, search for the lost memories of the Sheep Eaters,...

A ruined hunting shelter, a displaced Indigenous woman and the planetary weight of the U.S. government: the gunpowder that ignite Lauren Greasewater's War. Set in the 1970s, this historical novel traces an urban Indian woman's quest from the streets of New York to the...