Fiction - Indigenous

Voices of the Mayab: Ancestral Legends of the Maya Peoples is a captivating journey into the heart of Mayan mythology and oral tradition. This collection brings together timeless stories told for generations in the villages and communities of Yucatán, where the voices of the...

In a nation facing erasure, their only weapon was the truth. But truth is no match for power.In the forests of 1820s Georgia, the Cherokee Nation deploys a revolutionary new weapon to defend its sovereignty: a cast-iron printing press. For young David Aganstata, apprentice...

How would Haudenosaunee Monsters operate in the modern world? See for yourself in these three monster tales: The Snakes are on the warpath when Patrick Burning takes on the forbidden name Jitkwa: e, and breaks the terms of a truce established in the Seneca's...

Extending the tradition of Aboriginal storytelling, Richard Van Camp's new collection is eloquently and humorously optimistic. The stories in The Moon of Letting Go celebrate healing through modern day rituals that honour his Dogrib ancestry. Van Camp speaks in a range of powerful voices:...

In the vast expanse of Western Australia, a young Indigenous man embarks on a profound journey within himself. Labelled as the successful outcome of his white grandfather s attempts to breed the first white man born, Harley wants to be a failure. Finding himself...

Deadfall tracks Charlie Yazzie, Thomas Begay, and Harley Ponyboy into unfamiliar territory. When a family member unexpectedly dies, a debilitating sense of loss overcomes our friends on the reservation. The ties that have bound them begin to unravel. What witch's evil is at work?...

A head injury cuts short John Eyre's career as an oil rig diver and his romance with Rachel. Big, damaged and psychically sensitive, John roams Central America, where he is beguiled by Maximon, a trickster god. When the mask confining the god is stolen...

Lucas and Grant Sievers struggle to keep their farms from going under due to unusually cold weather, the raiding Mohawks, and cattle thieves. While Grant's health is slowly failing, Lucas does the unthinkable. He gets his nephew's wife pregnant. He devises a plan for...

An epic tale of ethnic and societal upheaval set far in the future on a planet experiencing the enduring effects of runaway climate change. When coordinated global terrorist attacks produce shortages in a necessary dietary supplement of the ruling upper caste, the lower castes...

The Trinity of Shadow Mothersby Kailan PitreIn every lineage, there are mothers who walk with the light-and mothers who guard the shadows.The Trinity of Shadow Mothers is a mythic narrative that unveils three primordial figures, women who embody the forgotten, the exiled, and the...

The Conjure Woman's Black Bookby Kailan PitreIn the deep hush of midnight, the Conjure Woman opens her Black Book. Within its pages are secrets whispered by rivers, carried by winds, and guarded by ancestral fire.This is not a manual-it is a living grimoire. Blending...

Indigenous history repeats itselfThe legendary Tecumseh was the first North American Indian leader to attempt to unite tribesand thwart the relentless intrusion of colonial settlement. He died fighting for his cause, having been betrayed by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous allies.Two centuries later the charismatic...

Indigenous history repeats itselfThe legendary Tecumseh was the first North American Indian leader to attempt to unite tribesand thwart the relentless intrusion of colonial settlement. He died fighting for his cause, having been betrayed by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous allies.Two centuries later the charismatic...

Isle of the Austronesian: Indigeneity, World-Making and Taiwan brings together powerful literary and scholarly voices to explore the dynamic contours of Indigeneity in Taiwan. This anthology features poetry, stories, and essays that reflect on land, memory, identity, and ecological belongings. Highlighting perspectives often overlooked-queer,...

Pulitzer Prize Winner! A Timeless Tale of Love, Tradition, and IdentitySet in the majestic landscape of the American Southwest, Laughing Boy is a powerful, award-winning novel about the clash between traditional Native American values and the pressures of modern assimilation. Winner of the Pulitzer...

* Sometimes you need to find out who you were before you discover who you are * Frank had no idea what he was walking into deep in the Wyoming grasslands * He and Ruth reunite; a second chances to follow their dreams, their...

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...

Em is stuck. Using again, she lingers in a California coastal town no one has heard of with no car, food, or money. A local matriarch takes her in, and with her help, Em slowly starts to recover. But then her past sweeps in...

Author: Veronica ChapaISBN-10: 1668009021ISBN-13: 9781668009024Publisher: Atria/Primero Sueno PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/17/2026Pages: 384Format: Paperback

In sixteenth-century Mexico, a fearless young woman strives to uncover the secrets her mother kept as the last Aztec empress in a sweeping historical epic by the author of Daughter of Fire.Tenochtitlan, 1551. Thirty years after the Spanish Conquest destroyed everything she loved, the...

"Fans of the fourth season of True Detective, starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis, will appreciate the moody ambience and subject matter; those left wanting more can explore the second volume of the Alex Desocarras series, Red Paint (2020)." - Kirkus ReviewsBlue Star, a...

When Faustin, the old Acoma, is given his first television set, he considers it a technical wonder, a box full of mystery. What he sees on its screen that first day, however, is even more startling than the television itself: men have landed on...

In a remote mountain hollow where the Guanzhong Plain meets Shangzhou lies the secluded town of Foguan - a place where "ugliness" is worshipped as beauty. Here, the townspeople are grotesquely misshapen, and even the fruits, vegetables, and trees twist into bizarre, unnatural forms....

In this gripping prequel to The Red Canoe, Buck navigates family, trauma and star-crossed romance in his search to track down his wayward brother.In this prequel to 2022's The Red Canoe, Buck, aka Michael Fineday, aka Red Deer is on his way to track...

An exploration of racial prejudice, sexual predation and the unrelenting pursuit of justice, The Red Canoe tells the story of carpenter Buck whose life is flipped upside down when a teenage girl shows up at his door. Buck, government name Michael Fineday, Ojibwe name...

Protesting the logging of an old-growth forest, an environmentalist fells a rare tree, unwittingly releasing...something...into our world. After his subsequent disappearance, reporter Brooke Grant looks for answers. During his investigation he finds the love of his life, only to lose her to, well, he...

His boss calls him a 'lone wolf' but detective Dan Connor doesn't always work alone. When he is called upon to visit one of the remote islands off the Pacific Northwest, he calls upon Walker, an indigenous man he put behind bars more than...

This book is identical to the blue covered edition of BLUE JAY GIRL AND LION SINGER, with the exception that the illustrations in the book are in black and white rather than color. It contains two stories for children. It is about children from...

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 of The RemovedMilton Muleborn has envied Matthew Echota, a talented Cherokee artist, ever since they were locked up together...

Author: Craig JohnsonISBN-10: 0593834186ISBN-13: 9780593834183Publisher: Penguin BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2025Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 7.75h x 5.06w x 0.50d

Author: Jon HickeyISBN-10: 1420523570ISBN-13: 9781420523577Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/30/2025Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 8.66h x 5.77w x 1.05dLarge Print

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 drove...

Phillip thought of himself only as a scientist. When he took on a Khutani symbiote he became a kashallan, to communicate for these great beings among all the races of the world Timorna. Now he's a respected leader on a mission to cross the...

Nathan and Phillip, with their symbiotes, strain to lead the Kashallan Alliance against their Ghostlander enemies. They must learn to trust native war magics as well as their own off-world technology, as all resources are needed to protect them in this struggle. And what...

Sairsa is facing challenges as Dunnagh's wife -- as one of the wives of the first kashallan and his symbiote Tani. While Sairsa and her sister-wife are raising their babies, it's rare to get news of their husband on his dangerous adventures forging what...

After taking ill, the young Flavian learns of a means of sidestepping his terminal wasting disease - one mythologized, romanticized, and made a laughable notion by the celebrated fictions of the day. Reborn a vampire during the last days of the Gilded Age -...

Winner of the Oregon Book Awards H.L. Davis Prize for Fiction Storm Riders examines the conflicted love of a single father struggling to raise his adopted Native American son, who was born with fetal alcohol syndrome. When a small girl mysteriously drowns near a...

Bring Me One of Everything is a novel which weaves real-life facts and fiction into an eloquent tale of suspense and intrigue. The title of the book is based on what the management of the Smithsonian is said to have demanded when sending ethnographers...

A stunning collection of award-winning fantasy and science fiction short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of the Between Earth and Sky trilogy--including a new novella set in the world of Trail of Lightning. Rebecca Roanhorse's first publication, "Welcome to Your Authentic...

Author: Stephen Graham JonesISBN-10: 1420528157ISBN-13: 9781420528152Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/27/2025Format: HardcoverLarge Print

Author: Aaron John CurtisISBN-10: 142052593XISBN-13: 9781420525939Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/27/2025Pages: 528Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.10dLarge Print

It's 1838, and two fourteen-year-olds form an unlikely friendship as tensions grow between the Cherokee Nation and white settlers in Tennessee. Callie, a Cherokee girl, and Jameson, the son of a U.S. soldier at nearby Fort Cass, discover they have more in common than...

In BEYOND the CAMPFIRE, John Bradford Branney uses his hallmark approach in writing stories by creating an intricate plot tightly wound with several subplots. Readers have praised his historical fiction novels for their realistic depiction of life in Prehistoric America. Critics have remarked how...

Basil Johnston was one of the foremost Anishinaabe writers and storytellers, and his comedic stories about life in Residential School, Indian School Days, is a classic. Candies was Johnston's first collection of humorous works in decades. Excerpt from "Indian on Bicycle" found in Candies:...

"Margie Robineau, fighting for her family's long-held allotment land, uncovers events connected to a long-ago escape plan, and the burial--at once figurative and painfully real--of not one crime but two. While Margie pieces the facts together, Dale Ann is confronted by her own tightly...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller"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...

This lyrical runaway Swedish hit follows a reclusive, elderly couple who cross paths with a pair of twentysomething newcomers in a small mountain town, revealing an unexpected, shared history and the reclamation of a nearly extinct culture. Meet Máriddja: eccentric, eighty-five years old, and...

The Nations is a short fiction set containing twenty stories by master storyteller Thomas F. Sheehan. These tales celebrate the heroic deeds and legends of various Native American Indian tribes (Cherokee, Kiowa, Lakota) of the Old West in the United States.Author: Thomas F. SheehanISBN-10:...

"Some of [the Newcomers] had taken up the lonely life of trapping because they couldn't stand the lonely life of civilization. Some of them were running from women, from the fathers of women, from lawmen, or from each other. On the rough side, all...

"Extremely Well-Written" - Indian Country Today. WINNER, BRONZE MEDAL, 2013 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS. Volume I of two in the Medicine Valley Series. A strong-hearted Yakama Indian girl and a mixed blood psychologist ride a wild horse past methamphetamine and gang-violence to discover friendship,...