Fiction - Indigenous

Middle Eastern terrorists hire a Mexican drug cartel to smuggle them into the United States across the border with Mexico. Once in the United States, jihadists head north and hide in the Navajo and Hopi Indian reservations in New Mexico and Arizona. The terrorists...

"The Promise Seed" is a love story---love of family---love of God/The Great Spirit---love of the land. It is an historic fiction that traces the lives of five generations of pioneers on the Great American Desert. . . prairie land in northeastern Colorado. The Iowan...

The old stories tell of the great frigid lake, now known as Superior, that has swallowed many an Indian paddling out to find honor, redemption, or love. The City of Minneapolis has its own way of swallowing up Indians, too, and Jack Bordeaux, a...

Alonzo Herrera has lived in the shadow of his brother for most of his life. After a bitter fight over the woman they both love, he leaves the pueblo, but can't leave behind his dream of helping his people with a water harvesting system....

A historical novel set between the years 1820 and 1838 detailing the agony of the last turbulent years of the Cherokee nations existence in northwest Georgia before their forced deportation outside the borders of the United States. Katie, a journalism major at the University...

'Eh - how can this be?' Longertalenna breathed. They stared at the pattern of fields and farmsteads and saw no place for them and their kind.To its first people, Trouwerner was the world. They lived there according to the season and ancient traditions as...

Faced with the death of his father, half-breed Swift Wind seeks vengeance on the hunter who killed him and stole his furs. Returning from his quest, he finds the teepees in shambles, h is mother and sister raped and he is off again to...

Eight summers ago, Many Wolves killed Laughing Crow, the legendary leader of the Nokoni Comanches. And ever since that time, Many Wolves has been hiding himself deep in the unforgiving lands along the Pecos River. It's a place where few men could survive, yet...

When a chance meeting between two Vietnam veterans, the rape and shooting of a fifteen-year-old Apache girl, and the Spirit Quest of an Apache paramedic all combine to lead the Apache to declare independence and close off their reservation, the U.S. government responds as...

From the imagination of an Ojibway Mohawk comes the collection of Native American Love Stories and Other Short Stories. The short stories collection includes endearing stories about a mommy and son family of witches, ghosts, rescue dogs, werewolve...Author: Jennifer SaultISBN-10: 1039118232ISBN-13: 9781039118232Publisher: FriesenPressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Dirty Copper, the prequel to Walking the Rez Road, tells the story of Luke Warmwater, an Anishinaabe soldier, as he returns to the Reservation after serving in Vietnam. Once again, Luke is torn between duty and morality as he becomes a deputy sheriff on...

A Mystery at Pitt Lake: Slumach's GoldBy Nic JeringAt the mist-laden edge of British Columbia's Coast Mountains lies Pitt Lake: a place of staggering beauty, ancient memory, and enduring mystery.For more than a century, rumors of a fabulously rich lost gold mine have drawn...

From the award-winning author of Winter Counts comes a new thriller about life--and death--on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.Virgil Wounded Horse is desperately trying to escape his past as a hired vigilante on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. But when a legendary figure from the reservation...

The Story begins in the late 1780s and is told by Mahr's caregiver after Mahr suffered an injury. The story starts as he recounts his life while in recovery. Mahr is the son of Panunka, the tribal chief's daughter, fisher for the tribe, and...

Following years of living in exile in Mexico, a pair of Moor Scholars travelled all the way from Africa to the United States of America, to negotiate the Cherokee's return to their homeland. Although the Indians lived comfortably in their new country, being away...

Arvida Juni Svenske is a poet, a folk high-school teacher, writer and journalist born into this world as a woman, in a place called Stockholm, Sweden. Her names mean Eagle Wood June The Swedish One if you translate them directly, but why would you...

Older brother, Keith Gentry, is rooted in his Native American mother's culture and has found meaning and value in their medicine circles, sweat ceremonies, and powwows. His father, Sam, questions his paternity and treats Keith like he is someone else's son. Keith also is...

From the tales of Orenda. Book Two: After a long winter encampment, Orenda, Nazshoni, Kanuna and Onsi cross the Mississippi river and venture west. Their destination is far and Orenda intends to move the small group of warriors with haste in the hope of...

Haw Kola, a Lakota Fall is a story of 1860 Minnesota. The book deals with hot button topics they faced then which still are facing us in the twenty-first century. Related from a teenager's viewpoint, the story describes the experience of one family of...

In this powerful novel, Karena Shields explores the struggles faced by a young Indigenous woman named Lorna as she navigates the complexities of modern life. Set against the backdrop of Canada's residential school system, The Changing Wind is a poignant and thought-provoking work of...

American history books often portray the Spanish missions of California as havens of civil coexistence between the Spanish conquistadors, the Catholic priests, and the native Indians who had long inhabited the area. In reality, the "civilized" Christian life that was forced upon the natives...

The superbly crafted stories in this internationally acclaimed collection trace four generations of the Lafrenière family in the fictional small town of Agassiz, Manitoba, from the time of the great flood of 1950 to the present. There is Mika, the matriarch of the family,...

Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley are caught between two cultures that won't let go of the past--and a killer who won't leave any witnesses... On the anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Colonel Edward Garrett, a well- known Custer...

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