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Reading about the Native experience. Perfect for the socially conscious reader.
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann - Doubleday
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage... |
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Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
David Treuer - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Book
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With authoritative research and reportage, Treuer illuminates misunderstood contemporary issues of sovereignty, treaty rights, and natural-resource conservation. He traces the waves of public policy that have disenfranchised and exploited Native Americans, exposing the tension that has marked... |
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Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask
Anton Treuer - Borealis Books
Format: Paperback
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Treuer, an Ojibwe scholar and cultural preservationist, answers your questions about Native Americans as well as many you never thought to ask. His experience has been that Indians are often imagined but rarely understood, so he presents programs in which he encourages the audience to ask him questions... |
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir
Sherman Alexie - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book
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Family relationships are never simple. But Sherman Alexie's bond with his mother Lillian was more complex than most. She plunged her family into chaos with a drinking habit, but shed her addiction when it was on the brink of costing her everything. She survived a violent past, but created... |
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Good Friday on the Rez: A Pine Ridge Odyssey
David Hugh Bunnell - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Good Friday on the Rez follows the author on a one-day, 280-mile round-trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown of Alliance to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where he reconnects with his longtime friend and blood brother, Vernell White Thunder. In a compelling... |
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The Thunder Before the Storm: The Autobiography of Clyde Bellecourt
Clyde H Bellecourt - Minnesota Historical Society Press
Format: Print book
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Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, provides an intimate narrative of his childhood on the White Earth Reservation, his long journey through the prison system, and the front lines of 1970's social activism, where he went to war against entrenched racism. He addresses... |
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The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
Bob Drury - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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An astonishing untold story of the American West The great Sioux warrior-statesman Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. At the peak of Red Cloud's powers the Sioux could claim... |
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Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices
Lisa Charleyboy - Annick Press
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful and visually stunning anthology from some of the most groundbreaking Native artists working in North America today. Truly universal in its themes, Dreaming In Indian will shatter commonly held stereotypes and challenge readers to rethink their own place in the world. Divided... |
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The Road Back to Sweetgrass
Grover, Linda Legarde
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Set in northern Minnesota, The Road Back to Sweetgrass follows Dale Ann, Theresa, and Margie, a trio of American Indian women, from the 1970s to the present, observing their coming of age and the intersection of their lives as they navigate love, economic hardship, loss, |
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Medicine Walk
Richard Wagamese - Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover
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Franklin Starlight's comfort in solitude and experience in the wilderness make him appear wise beyond his sixteen years. But when his ailing father, Eldon, summons him back to town, Franklin's sense of duty clashes with the deep resentment he feels for his father's many years... |
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Him Standing
Richard Wagamese - Raven Books
Format: Paperback
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When Lucas Smoke learns the Ojibway art of carving from his grandfather, he proves to be a natural. He can literally make people come to life in wood. Then Lucas's growing reputation attracts a mysterious stranger, who offers him a large advance to carve a spirit mask. This mask... |
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Future Home of the Living God: A Novel
LOUISE ERDRICH - Harper
Format: Book
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The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker,... |
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There There: A novel
Tommy Orange - Knopf
Format: Book
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As we learn the reasons that each person is attending the Big Oakland Powwow - some generous, some fearful, some joyful, some violent - momentum builds toward a shocking yet inevitable conclusion that changes everything. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family... |
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In the Night of Memory: A Novel
Linda LeGarde Grover - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover
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Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears, she becomes one more missing Native woman in Indian Country's long devastating history of loss. But she is also a daughter... |
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