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A young woman finds the course of her life influenced by her Navajo and Mexican heritage and especially by an older Navajo woman and a young Indian lawyer. A young woman finds the course of her life influenced by her Navajo and Mexican heritage and especially by an older Navajo woman and a young Indian lawyer. A coming-of-age story set in the multicultural American Southwest, Heartbeat Drumbeat is rich in descriptions of Native-American and Mexican...
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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 home a hero, he finds his tribe in conflict over the decision to hunt a whale, both a symbol of spirituality and rebirth and a means of survival. In the end, he reconciles his two existences,...
8) Hanta yo
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A multigenerational saga that depicts the lives of two families of Teton Sioux from the late 1700s to the 1830s, before the arrival of the white man.
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Most of these sensitive, engaging tales set in Canada explore the private tragedies and triumphs of Native Americans. The exception, "This Is History," offers a woman-focused account of the origins of Turtle Island (the Earth) in which Sky Woman (the moon) and her daughter/companion First Woman share the "naming" tasks central to creation tales. In "Wild Turkeys," a woman visiting her hometown is shaken when a chance encounter brings back vivid memories...
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An overview of American Indian literature, from early oral history to bestselling books. The works of 17 authors are featured, including A Red Girl's Reasoning by E. Pauline Johnson, The War Maidens by Charles A. Eastman, and The Longhair from the book, House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday.
12) Laughing Boy
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"A novel 'of the Navajo country. Laughing Boy, cunning artificer of silver and maker of songs, loves Slim Girl who, tainted and embittered as the result of her American schooling, is trying to find her way back into the heart of her people. The story tells how together they fared along the Trail of Beauty, the final tragedy leaving Laughing Boy bereft but not despairing.
For more than a generation, this Pulitzer Prize novel has been admired as a...
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In the year 1824, not far from what is now Indianapolis, Indiana, five white men killed a group of nine innocent, peaceful Indians who were camped nearby. Fall Creek, a settlement about 100 miles northwest of Cincinnati, Ohio, was on the frontier of white civilization. The people who lived there had pushed westward to find their own land, enduring hardships, including Indian raids, before reaching their goal. For many years whites had been killing...
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Frustrated by his inability to trace a criminal monster, Denson sets down his skepticism and accepts, provisionally, the shamanistic ways of his Native partner, Willie Prettybird. Out-of-body flying? Entering the spirit of an animal? Can it be true? Can Denson solve murders by playing Carlos Castaneda to Willie's Don Juan? Two daughters of a Portland weatherman have been killed for no apparent reason. Denson and Willie are called from their remote...
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The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
17) The visitant
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Two investigations, eight hundred years apart, into the 12th century murders of Indian women and children in what is now New Mexico. One is conducted by a tribal chief at the time they were committed, the other by an anthropologist in the present.
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A missionary to Sioux Indians becomes a builder in St. Paul and organizes a non-segregated union.
"Not a thesis novel such as one has come to expect of Sinclair Lewis, but in a semi-historical, semi-period novel, he manages to stab the hypocrisies of the hell and damnation type of missionary spirit which activated some of our westward passage. The story has period values, in the pre-civil war picture of the opening up of Minnesota, the building of...
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"There have always been the songs, the prayers, the stories of Native American writers. There is a wide variety of styles, themes and topics presented in the fiction of this collection of thirty authors. Their stories are evidence of the commitment made by Native American writers to express themselves in this genre of literature."--Amazon.com.
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Returning to the land of his ancestors for his grandmother's funeral, Set is drawn to the fabled bear-boy whose story absorbs him. Then he meets a young medicine woman, and his world is turned upside down.
"In ancient times, when the Kiowas roamed free across a "land of innumerable long distances," the Indians first told the story of the boy who turned into a bear. Now, in his first novel since the Pulitzer prize-winning House Made of Dawn, N. Scott...
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