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• Wandering Stars

  Orange, Tommy, 1982-

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  Traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Red Feather's shooting in There There. -NoveList

• A Council of Dolls

  a Novel

  Power, Mona Susan, 1961-

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  Details the story of three women from different generations, told through the stories of the dolls they carried in 1888, 1925, and 1961 bringing to light the damage done to indigenous people through history. -NoveList

• Lost Birds

  Hillerman, Anne, 1949-

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  Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, P.I. Joe Leaphorn is hired to find the birth parents of a woman raised by a bilagaana family, which unexpectedly turns into a complicated case, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito investigates an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fire Exit

  a Novel

  Talty, Morgan, 1991-

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  From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine's Penobscot Reservation, and, on the far bank, he caught brief moments of his neighbor Elizabeth's life--from the day she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indian Burial Ground

  Medina, Nick,

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  When the facts surrounding her boyfriend Roddy's apparent suicide don't add up, Noemi, suspecting something sinister is stalking their tribal lands, relies on help from her uncle, who has returned to the reservation, bringing with him…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sisters of the Lost Nation

  Medina, Nick,

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  As girls start going missing amidst strange and sinister happenings in the reservation's casino, including her little sister, Anna Horn, an outcast struggling with her place on the rez, must confront demons old and new as she hunts for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Berry Pickers

  a Novel

  Peters, Amanda,

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  In 1962, four-year-old Ruthie vanished. In Boston, Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family, but she is troubled by recurring dreams and visions that lead her to realize her parents are harboring a secret.

• A Grandmother Begins the Story

  Porter, Michelle, 1975-

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  The story of the unrivaled desire for healing and the power of familial bonds across five generations of Métis women and the land and bison that surround them. -NoveList

• The Missing Morningstar

  and Other Stories

  Denetsosie, Stacie Shannon

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  Stacie Denetsosie confronts long-reaching effects of settler-colonialism on Native lives in a series of gritty, wildly imaginative stories. -NoveList

• Calling for a Blanket Dance

  a Novel

  Hokeah, Oscar, 1975-

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  Follows the life of Ever Geimausaddle, a young Native American, through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face policy corruption, threats of job loss, constant resettlement, and the pent-up rage of centuries of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• VenCo

  a Novel

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  After finding a tarnished silver spoon humming with otherworldly energy, Metis millennial Lucky St. James, familiar with the magic of her Indigenous ancestors, and her cantankerous grandmother Stella are welcomed into the fold of Ven.Co --…Read moreRead more of this annotation