Fiction - Indigenous

Lakota FBI Agent Manny Tanno is back in action with his faithful tribal officer sidekick Willie when a man is found drowned in a Pine Ridge Reservation Lake. The apparently accidental drowning turns out to be murder, and the investigation takes them on the...

Don't miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLegendary Navajo policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn takes center stage in this riveting atmospheric mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne...

AN ENGAGING AND INSIGHTFUL WESTERN ADVENTURE. He was called White Buffalo, and he would be the greatest medicine man the People had ever known. The spirit of the ancient gods beat in him like a savage drum - a mystical power as old as...

Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American community, he fathers a child with another woman. When he returns...

The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta (1854) is a novel by John Rollin Ridge. Published under his birth name Yellow Bird, from Cheesquatalawny in Cherokee, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta was the first novel from a Native American author. Despite its...

Grand Prize Winner in the 2018 Chaucer Book AwardsWinner of the Five-Star Review in the Readers' Favorite contestWinner of the Discovered Diamond AwardWinner of the B.R.A.G. Medallion Award.Tenochtitlan, 1519. Strange, pale-skinned people have arrived on the coast of the One World. They hail from...

"Bold, envisioned storytelling. A hands down pleasure to read." --Richard Wagamese In the winter of 1989, Eva Gibson is a university student living in downtown Toronto. She's homesick and anxious to finish her education and return home to serve her Anishinaabe community. Then tragedy...

Nick Drake returns in the thrilling sequel to The Sorrow Hand. A contemporary western thriller. Set in 1968, Nick Drake is a troubled Vietnam War veteran seeking redemption as a game warden in a quiet land. But when a fighter pilot from a nearby...

In Margaret Coel's latest Wind River Reservation mystery, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley find themselves immersed in the dark underbelly of the illegal market for Indian relics.Author: Margaret CoelISBN-10: 0425217647ISBN-13: 9780425217641Publisher: Berkley BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/04/2007Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 6.82h x 4.30w...

First published in 1719, Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" is a pioneering work of realist fiction and one of the most popular adventure novels ever written. When it first appeared it was widely believed to be a true account of actual events. While it is...

Since the beginnings of darkest silence the people of a mythical island have spent their days tying the ancient knot that binds them to their past. From silence to mud to rope to knot to wood to words to fire, the Old People will...

Powerful stories of "M騁is futurism" that envision a world without violence, capitalism, and colonization."Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to signify the importance of education to their survival and ability to support themselves, as once...

Included are real-life oral tradition accounts drawn from the author's personal involvement in tribal life, and his personal interactions with tribal elders (all mentioned by name) who contributed some of these examples included in this book.The author is a reliable source for the information...

With a bang--or rather, a barrage--Jacob Neptune finds his remote cabin in the Adirondacks besieged by a gun-toting gang of murderous bikers. With the help of his supersized sidekick Dennis, the hard-headed, wise-cracking Abenaki private detective traces the source of his troubles to a...

Texas, 1872. With the Civil War over, exploration has resumed in the territories to the west of the Mississippi, and the geologist Stingley is looking to capitalize. Together with photographer Oscar Forrest, who catalogues the terrain, and their young assistant, Milton, Stingley strikes out...

This is the first authoritative edition of one of the most significant children's books of the twentieth century. Winner of the 1961 Newbery Medal, Island of the Blue Dolphins tells the story of a girl left alone for eighteen years in the aftermath of...

Native American Mythology began long before the European settlers arrived on North American soil. Contrary to popular beliefs, there is more to Native American Folklore than stories of buffalo hunts, teepee living and animal stories. Hundreds of tribes throughout North American created a huge...

Book 6 in the Gabriel Hawke Novels.Accident or Homicide? State Trooper Gabriel Hawke is called to a vehicle on fire. When the steam and smoke clears, a charred body is slumped over the steering wheel. The Muzzleloader Rendezvous has attendees from all over the...

Don't miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! "An extraordinary display of sheer plotting craftsmanship."--New York Times Book ReviewLegendary detectives Leaphorn and Chee must battle uncooperative feds as they hunt for a...

Ghosts of those drowned and never recovered are swarming from the depths of Lake Superior. But the ghosts have not come to haunt the living. They are fleeing something far more sinister.Lake Superior is a vast, surreal inland sea. Its clear depths are scattered...

Dead bodies in the wilderness.A child gone missing.Book 2 in the Gabriel Hawke series.Fish and Wildlife State Trooper Gabriel Hawke's job is to find a missing family in the Eagle Cap Wilderness. After finding the parents murdered, can he track a little girl on...

*Finalist for two International Latino Book Awards* *Selected as a Staff Pick by The Paris Review* *Shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award* *Finalist for the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award (Multicultural)* *SILVER MEDAL winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards...

Newly revised and edited! Thomas Begay is found dead-drunk under the La Plata Bridge ...not unusual for Thomas Begay. What is unusual, is the beautiful BIA investigator Patsy Greyhorse, found lying beside him ...not drunk, or even a Navajo, but very dead nonetheless. Long...

From critically acclaimed master of suspense J. A. Jance, the New York Times bestselling author of Fire and Ice, comes a nerve-shattering tale of rage and retribution, and a nightmare even death cannot end.Twenty years ago, a darkness rose up out of the blistering...

The nightmares never cease. Ever since I was a child I have struggled to deal with them. Each night a different horror takes shape, and I see it as if I was there.I wake from these terrifying dreams of another world in which I...

Surrounded by 14,000-foot mountain peaks and stunning yet dangerous wilderness, Leadville, Colorado is where silver kings make their fortunes, miners fight to survive, and women struggle in the brutal world of coarse men, where laws are loose, yet harsh Victorian mores are rigid and...

Half-Cherokee Marquitta "Skeet" Bannion thought she was leaving her troubles behind when she fled the stress of being the highest-ranking woman in the Kansas City Police Department, a jealous cop ex-husband, and a disgraced alcoholic ex-cop father. Moving to a small town to be...

Award-winning writer of Wyatt Earp, An American Odyssey, winner of the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award, a 2019 Spur Award Finalist and an "Editor's Choice" by The Historical Novel SocietyIn 1941 Jonas Walks-Through-the-Storm, a full-blooded Cherokee horse trainer in rural North Carolina, trains an...

"Beware false prophets in sheep clothing--they can be hungry wolves."(Lay Pastor Eddie Red Horse reading from Matt 7:15) An old silversmith is dead--his body dumped unceremoniously along the highway to be found by a tourist's yapping dog. Legal Services Investigator Charlie Yazzie isn't content...

Jacob Neptune, a wise-cracking, two-fisted Penacook private investigator with a checkered past, lives in upstate New York--four hundred miles from his tribal community on Abenaki Island. Then one night the phone rings. "We . . . got . . . trouble," Neptune's cousin Dennis...

Blackening Song is the debut of Navajo FBI agent Ella Clah, who returns to the reservation to investigate the murder of her father, a minister. The ritual nature of the killing makes Ella's brother, a medicine man, the prime suspect. Without cooperation from the...

"In this luscious alternative universe, sidekicks quote the Lone Ranger and Right inevitably triumphs with panache. What more could adventure-loving readers ask for?"--Publishers Weekly Oakland, 1946. Ex-soldier John Rolfe, newly back from the Pacific, has made a fabulous discovery: A portal to an alternate...

This novel is the sequel to the multi-award winning story, "The Curse of Dead Horse Canyon: Cheyenne Spirits."When Charlie Littlewolf and Sara Reynolds discovered why her husband, Bryan, was murdered, their lives changed forever. While Charlie swore to avenge his white brother's death, the...

First in the Spirit Road Mystery series!Eighteen years ago, FBI agent Manny Tanno thought he was leaving the impoverished Pine Ridge Reservation for good. Now a case forces him to return, digging up memories of his proud Sioux ancestry-and some family he'd rather forget...The...

Set against the tragic war sparked by Hernando de Soto's brutal invasion of the American South, A Searing Wind brings to an electrifying climax the intense historical action in the series hailed as "exciting, skillfully crafted, and fast-paced" (Publishers Weekly). Once exiled by the...

The account of a nearly-forgotten tragedy of American history, Resisting Removal brings to life a story of political intrigue and bitter betrayal in this moving depiction of a people's desperate struggle to adapt to a changing, hostile world. Captivating and engaging for all the...

Jennifer Talldeer is Osage and Cherokee, granddaughter of a powerful Medicine Man. She walks a difficult path: contrary to tribal custom, she is learning a warrior's magics. A freelance private investigator, Jennifer spends hours tracking down stolen Indian artifacts. The construction of a new...

Charlie Moon, Ute rancher and investigator, isn't afraid to throw the dice even when a man's life is at stake, but when that man is betting against himself and Moon's ability to save him, that makes for some awfully high stakes. Hard times have...

Winner of the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year and the Aboriginal Fiction Book of the Year--a collection of twenty short stories told in Thomas King's classic, wry, irreverent, and allegorical voice.Author: Thomas KingISBN-10: 0816689814ISBN-13: 9780816689811Publisher: University of Minnesota PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2013Pages: 232Format:...

John Ozette owns an adventure tourism business in the Pacific Northwest that specifically caters to celebrities. A member of the Makah Tribe, he is drawn to a rundown sanitarium in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State after a mesmerizing encounter with a...

MEDICINE GAME is a modern-day story set on the fictional Sparrow Lake Nation. It's a story of Tommy Henry's life on the Rez. Events from Tommy's childhood lead him down a path of violent outbursts that trouble him throughout his young life. The very...

The beauty and the horrors of Jamestown 2609 A gripping account of survival in America's earliest settlement, Jamestown, Virginia. Virginia, 1622. Powhatan warriors prepare war paint from the sacred juice of the bloodroot plant, but Nehiegh, The English son-in-law of Chief Ochawintan has sworn...

Set Against the Rugged Maine Coast and the Bay Of Fundy; a Landscape Both Beautiful and Unforgiving. Detective Brie Beaumont teams with the Maine State Police to investigate a grisly murder away down East near the village of Tucker Harbor, Maine. A second death,...

Though Chappell has often been hailed by reviewers as the "new" Hillerman - his readers find his writing to be both unique and original. And he is at his best with this gripping new mystery/thriller, weaving traditional and modern Navajo culture around the tale...

David McKenna lies on his deathbed, his children gathered to say goodbye amid the suspicion that years ago, one of them got away with murder. When one of the gathered family disappears, Stonechild and Rouleau are called in and must set aside troubles of...

OLD GRAY WOLF James D. Doss In James D. Doss's final entry in his wild and witty mystery series, Colorado rancher and tribal investigator Charlie Moon faces his most challenging case--and enemy--to date. Former police officer, sometime tribal investigator, and current rancher Charlie Moon...

"In James D. Doss's latest complex and absorbing crime novel set on the Ute reservation in Southern Colorado, Charlie Moon's cleverness and his aunt Daisy Perika's intuition--not to mention the spellbinding story behind this unusual day--share the limelight with the vibrant details of Native...

Set in Mercer, Wisconsin, where tensions over Native American fishing rights are escalating, JERKWATER is told from three alternating points-of-view: Shawna Reynolds, a young Ojibwa woman who doesn't much care for white people to begin with, and who is quickly being pulled in a...

This is the story of an Arizona Tribal police officer who stumbles onto one of the of the biggest cases in the history of the Southwest. He is a member of an elite group within the Native American communities known as The Shadow Wolves....

Is murder always a simple transaction? Don't bank on it. Sadie Walela's life is about to be turned upside down. One morning Sadie unlocks the door at the Mercury Savings Bank and confronts a robber who's been lying in wait for her and her...