Fiction - Indigenous

What if the legends are real - and they've been watching us for twelve thousand years?In the remote hollows and limestone bluffs of the Ozark Plateau, something ancient still walks. Researcher F.K. Sterling spent two years collecting thirty-seven firsthand accounts from credible witnesses -...

"Joe Pete" is a poignant and evocative novel that explores the life of an Ojibwe boy growing up on Sugar Island in northern Michigan during the early 20th century. Written with a keen eye for social realism, Florence E. McClinchey portrays the challenges faced...

Orphaned intersex woman Phreddie Smith marries Remy Delaroux, the wealthy Frenchman of her dreams, in her home city of New Orleans in 1866. When Phreddie confesses her secret to Remy on their wedding night, he tries to kill her in a fit of rage,...

Recovering from a bad break-up, Abbey travels with her two tiddas to Hawai'i where personal challenges, laughter and new love await. Paradise beckons in this heartwarming and contemporary novel from bestselling author Anita Heiss. Abbey's ready for a holiday. Between her growing business, her...

Eight of the nine signs signaling the end of the Fourth World of the Hopi have come to pass. The ninth is hurtling toward Earth!Rachel is recruited by the spirit world to prevent a cataclysmic occurrence: the end of the Fourth World of the...

The Women's Warrior Society is a remarkable gathering of characters and voices used to expose truths about Native American life. In tightly woven prose, Lois Beardslee tells stories about people from all over North America and from either side of the line between abused...

Deputies Blaise Jeremiah (BJ) DeLarue and Tom Ivey, combat Marines, discover a bloody scene in the cabin of Charles Duffman, a reclusive veteran with severe PTSD-the son of a local hooker, Charles grew up hard in Texas, where he never fit in but could...

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER To find a missing young woman, the new tribal marshal must also find herself. At rock bottom following her daughter's death, ex-Chicago detective Carrie Starr has nowhere to go but back to her roots. Starr's father never talked much...

"Ramona" is a landmark work of American literature that weaves a poignant tale of love, prejudice, and social injustice in mid-19th-century Southern California. Set against the backdrop of the declining Spanish missions and the rising tide of American settlement, the novel follows the life...

Discovering What Truly Matters in a Cohanzick Lenape Tale Seek the Better Place, A Cohanzick Lenape Tale In every heart, there is a longing search for something better, something more. But what does it truly mean to seek? Travel back in time to the...

In "The Fair God," Lew Wallace weaves a richly imagined narrative set in the Aztec Empire during the tumultuous era of the Spanish conquest. This illustrated edition enhances the reading experience with captivating visuals that bring to life the vibrant culture and intricate customs...

In "An Apache Princess (Illustrated Edition)," Charles King weaves a compelling narrative that intertwines adventure, romance, and historical detail against the backdrop of the American Southwest. With a masterful blend of vivid imagery and rich character development, King transports readers into the tumultuous world...

His dreams died in the massacre. Until his forebears gave his hopes new life.1683, Rocky Mountain foothills. Lusio only wants to return home. Escaping from brutal kidnappers, the determined man undertakes an arduous journey back to his beloved Pueblo tribe... only to find the...

The Comanche raided the Stewart homestead in 1861. Mary Beth Stewart tried to escape with her two younger sisters out the backdoor but was soon captured. They killed her mother and older brother and she knew not what happened to all her siblings. So...

Continuously in print for over 300 years, Robinson Crusoe is often credited with beginning the genre of realistic fiction. Chapter breaks have been inserted inconsistently in various editions over the years. This printing has breaks following the Ambleside Online reading schedule, and features the...

During the years after the Civil War, Lonely Cricket, a Native American boy, strives to learn his people's ways and traditions and to grow to manhood. This is a difficult task for any youngster, but Lonely Cricket is coming of age in a world...

Author: James Fenimore CooperISBN-10: 1731705158ISBN-13: 9781731705150Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2018Pages: 472Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.05d

Zharan and Joseph have a forbidden romance. He is white and she is a Native American. There is talk about the president forcing the Indians to move out west. Will their love survive?Author: Tonya Christine HewittISBN-10: 1728749298ISBN-13: 9781728749297Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/06/2018Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Amid braves, chiefs, spies and soldiers, a young French woman must hold her own to stay alive. Adelle Chaboillier risks everything to obey her God but the decision plunges her into the heart of a dangerous conspiracy involving the French forts and Native American...

Author: Richard Van CampISBN-10: 1771624779ISBN-13: 9781771624770Publisher: Douglas & McIntyreLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/06/2027Pages: 184Format: Paperback

In At Ends We Rest, Samantha Erron Gibbon offers five powerful short stories about Indigenous youth searching for home, safety, and belonging amid intergenerational impacts of residential school, colonization, displacement, and family fracture. An otipemisiwak (Métis) ekwa nehiyaw physician, mother, and educator, Gibbon draws...

A sharp winter wind cuts across the parade ground as two cadets lock eyes, the tension between them as palpable as the frost underfoot. In the disciplined world of a nineteenth-century military academy, rivalry is not a mere schoolyard contest but a crucible in...

A ragtag group of activists plan a mission to repatriate the bones of a Blackfeet boy who was sent to the infamous Carlisle Indian Industrial School in author Stephen Graham Jones's return to the Blackfeet reservation of his award-winning New York Times bestsellers The...

Barefoot Mud on the MarbleThe world is suffering from a silent epidemic: the Sickness of Disconnection. We have traded the rhythmic pulse of the earth for the cold, sterile hum of the "Marble" -a life lived on polished surfaces, detached from the dirt, the...

Sonia did not see why she should ever allow a man to use her against her wishes. To protect herself, she joins a karate class to learn self-defense. Twice, she draws on these skills to save herself from attack.Focusing on the empowerment of women,...

Blackfoot tribal member Dean Wolfsblood is the keeper of the sacred Dragonfly medicine pipe that makes time travel possible.When Dean's medicine pipe goes missing-and there's chilling evidence his fiancée Kai has been abducted-he rushes to the ceremonial place in the mountains to save her...

Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelations of his last case where he confronted the ghosts of his past and questioned the very nature of justice and mercy in the hard country of...

In this issueSavoury short fiction from Tomson Highway, Jakob Drud, Kim Harbridge, Hannah Van Didden, Dave Gregory, NRM Roshak and R Daniel Lester. Poetry from Erin Kirsh and Peter Norman. Further adventures of Frankie Ray in The Extra from Mel Anastasiou and a brand...

Josh, a young white boy sees his mom and dad killed by Indians who then kidnap him. He is raised by their tribe and as he grows he comes to love the Indian way of life. But he has a mission of vengeance in...

In the waning days leading up to the long night, fifteen year old Aklaq finds herself alone in the Alaskan wilderness with only the clothes on her back, a bone knife, and a bow with a single arrow. Her village has been burned to...

White Cloud and the Golden Canyon is a story about a young Lakota brave who sets out on a dangerous journey into the wilderness in search of the mystical Golden Canyon and his true animal spirit. On his journey, he encounters three animal journey...

Award-winning Aboriginal author Miki Mitayn traverses the zone between harsh reality and transcendental wisdom in this astonishing, original novel about the real-world dilemmas of channelling and mediumship.Listening to spirits channelled by her wife is messing with the doctor's head.Mari talks in her sleep all...

Plymouth, 1587, sixteen-year-old Amy, is aboard the Lyon, in the hope of finding the freedom she was never granted. She is leaving England, together with the first colony to settle on Roanoke.On the New Continent, she will discover a wild world, full of dangers...

I am Native American. Something strange happens when I dream. I jump to random places. But, now I've been jumping to someone in my dreams. Someone real and looking for me. Someone that was meant merely to be my guide, but, has become so...

'What happens when good love goes bad? And the pain refuses to go away? A love-struck 18 year old travels to the other side of the world to escape from a dysfunctional family with parents battling midlife crisis. She finds love on the roller-coaster...

An exceptional grassroots American novel. Back to the Badlands is an American short story based on a real life experience. After earning a degree from a prestigious Big Ten University, the main character faces a hostile world and an ever-changing American society. He searches...

Wakiza, a warrior excommunicated from his tribe for treason, must embark on a quest to vanquish a troublesome beast and save the people of his forest. A tale of forbidden love, war, and shamanic magic, The Desperate Warrior and The Beast Who Walks Without...

A mother and daughter embark on a transformative journey from India to the U.S., exploring migration's impact on identity and belonging. Their story intertwines with historical labor movements, revealing the enduring human spirit across generations and cultures.In Ages Never End, the narrative begins in...

A blend of fact and fiction, Growing Up Dead in Texas takes us back to new master of horror Stephen Graham Jones's hometown and explores a decade-old crime that tore the community apart. Prolific, award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones deftly blends fiction and reality...

A foreign object passes through Earth's orbit leaving death and destruction in its wake. It also leaves a form of radio activity that renders women infertile. Earth's population is dwindling because there are no births except in a small corner of the Amazon jungle....

When mixed race Alex Crossman enters a wrinkle in time and is hurled back eighty years, he lands in the hell of racial segregation. He commits himself to use his knowledge of the future to help the black community and he is successful. He...

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...

Based on the author's past life memories comes the story of a Native American woman living in pre-Columbian America. Singing Waterfall was one of the happiest women in the villages until conflict started coming and her father decided to marry her to Angry Elk,...

When the father of a local sports legend disappears the Polish Dragon P. I. and his partner Suzie are hired to find him. What they discover is the father's true identity on his birth certificate and they also uncover a heinous crime that was...

Robert is the most predictable old man in his mountain town. Ever since June died, twenty years ago, his life has marched on with a clockwork cadence. In fact, Robert hasn't even left town in two decades. June was an adventure-seeker. Once she was...

In Book 10 of the Cabin on the Mountain Series, David receives a great gift from his Native American ancestors.Native American Indians placed emphasis on the following: Respect for Mother EarthRespect for Fellow ManRespect for the Great Spirit (God)Respect for the AgedHonest Leadership SelectionBraveryCourageNo...

THE FEAST of FERTILITY My name is Jacira, and I am the daughter of Senhora do Vale Verde, the powerful representative of the Goddess of the Mother of Nature. My father, who I hardly knew, is a respected Christian priest, pastor of a Church...

In a time when lawlessness ruled the land, a man is falsely convicted of a heinous crime. Deemed guilty by the town of Deadwood, he faces the ultimate punishment, death by hanging. On the run as an outlaw, he encounters an ancient vampiric race,...

Danilo is a young uneducated inhabitant of a sea-dwelling tribe who realizes the futility of his life-style and is prepared to make dramatic changes to improve his opportunities. His life becomes a kaleidoscope of changes he could never have anticipated as a new world...

A young American Indian boy, Tocho and his sister, Chewki, are lone survivors of their village after raiders came. They embark on a journey to find their parents. During the journey, they are challenged to overcome hazards and to reach deep into their teachings...