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• A History of My Brief Body

  Belcourt, Billy-Ray,

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  A memoir of Canadian poet Billy-Ray Belcourt from the Driftpile Cree Nation.

• Caleb's Crossing

  Brooks, Geraldine

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  Forging a deep friendship with a Wampanoag chieftain's son on the Great Harbor settlement where her minister father is working to convert the tribe, Bethia follows his subsequent ivy league education and efforts to bridge cultures among the colonial…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Code Talker

  a Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

  Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-

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  After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.

• The Plague of Doves

  Erdrich, Louise

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  Unaware of a violent event that marked the beginning of her mixed ancestry, ambitious young Evelina Harp, a part-Ojibwe, part-white girl prone to falling hopelessly in love, learns disturbing truths from her gifted storyteller grandfather, while a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night Watchman

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  A historical novel based on the life of the author’s grandfather traces the experiences of a Chippewa Council night watchman in mid-19th-century rural North Dakota who fights Congress to enforce Native American treaty rights.

• Why We Serve

  Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces

  Harris, Alexandra N., 1976-

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  Commemorates the 2020 opening of the National Native American Veterans Memorial at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the first landmark in Washington, DC, to recognize the bravery and sacrifice of Native veterans. American…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Carry

  a Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land

  Jensen, Toni,

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  The author maps her personal experience onto the historical, exploring how history is lived in the body and redefining the language we use to speak about violence in America.

• The Only Good Indians

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary; follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an entity bent on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Poet Warrior

  a Memoir

  Harjo, Joy,

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  Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. In the second memoir from the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, Joy Harjo invites us to travel along the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Had a Little Real Estate Problem

  the Unheralded Story of Native Americans in Comedy

  Nesteroff, Kliph,

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  An acclaimed comedy historian explores how Native Americans have influenced and advanced the entertainment industry, tracing the achievements of performers ranging from Will Rogers and Adrianne Chalepah to Hill and the 1491s.

• There There

  Orange, Tommy, 1982-

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  A novel which grapples with the complex history of Native Americans; with an inheritance of profound spirituality; and with a plague of addiction, abuse and suicide, follows 12 characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Almanac of the Dead

  Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948-

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  Seese, a survivor of the dangerous world of drug dealing, takes a job as a secretary to Lecha, an old woman who is suspected of being a witch.

• Name Your Mountain

  a No Name Novrl

  Tingle, Tim,

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  Everything is looking great for Bobby Byington and his best friend Cherokee Johnny as their high school basketball team prepares for an important game. But just when things seem to be going really well, someone tries to take the life of Cherokee…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

  Native America From 1890 to the Present

  Treuer, David,

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  An anthropologist's chronicle of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present traces the unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention of distinct tribe cultures that assimilated into mainstream life to preserve Native identity.

• Prudence

  Treuer, David

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  When his farewell departure for World War II is shattered by an act of violence involving an escaped German soldier, bombardier Frankie Washburn witnesses the unfolding of consequences that reverberate for several years