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Black apple: a novel
By Joan Crate. 2016
Torn from her home and delivered to St. Mark’s Residential School for Girls by government decree, young Rose Marie (Sinopaki)…
finds herself in an alien universe where nothing of her previous life is tolerated, not even her Blackfoot name. For she has entered into the world of the Sisters of Brotherly Love, an order of nuns dedicated to saving the Indigenous children from damnation. Life under the sharp eye of Mother Grace becomes an endless series of torments, and Rose Marie starts to see shapes in her dreams that warn her of unspoken dangers and mysteries that threaten to engulf her. 2016.Between earth and sky
By Amanda Skenandore. 2018
One morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and…
the murder suspect is Alma's childhood friend. Harry--or Asku, as Alma knew him--was the most promising student at the "savage-taming" boarding school run by her father, but she barely recognizes the man Asku has become. Now Alma must revisit the painful secrets she has kept hidden from everyone--especially her lawyer husband, Stewart. 2018.Green grass, running water (A marc Jaffe Bk.)
By Thomas King. 1993
His past false arrest for being a dangerous Indian activist would be funny to Blackfoot Lionel Red Dog if it…
hadn't cost him his government job and turned him into a television salesman. Unbeknownst to Lionel, his professor girlfriend wants to have a baby but not necessarily with him or with her other beau. On top of everything, the appearance of four ancient Indians is about to impact the lives of Lionel and his family and friends. Some strong language. Canada Reads 2004.Coming of the storm (Contact. #1.)
By W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear. 2011
This novel launches a series featuring Black Shell, a Chicaza-clan trader, and his struggles with Hernando de Soto, an invader…
intent on spreading Catholicism at the point of his sword. Followed by "Fire the sky". 2011.Fire the sky (Contact. #2.)
By W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear. 2011
In 1539, Black Shell, his wife Pearl Hand, and their fellow exiles try to make a stand against the invasion…
of the Kristianos and their leader Hernando de Soto. But de Soto doesn't plan to back down easily. Sequel to "Coming of the storm", followed by "A searing wind". 2011.Fearless warriors
By Drew Hayden Taylor. 2008
Native playwright Taylor's haunting stories are an assault on stereotypes of all kinds. No quarter is given, nor is it…
taken - Native stereotypes of white culture are as fair game as any other. In "The Boy in the Ditch", the tragedy of the pre-teen gasoline sniffing culture of Davis Inlet is described, while other stories cover life on the Reserve, drinking, and clashes with the government. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. 2008.Dark passage: a Barnaby Skye novel (Skye's West. #Vol. 10)
By Richard S Wheeler. 1998
Mountaineer trapper Barnaby Skye and his Crow wife, Victoria (Many Quill Woman), have problems in their four-year-old marriage. When they…
move back with her people, Skye is put at a disadvantage as she begins to compare him with Crow warriors, especially the intrepid Antelope. 1998. (Skye's West)Aurora crossing (Lone Star audio)
By Karl H Schlesier. 2009
Idaho, 1877. Eighteen-year-old John Seton, whose father was white, lives among his late mother’s people, the Nez Perce's. When non…
treaty bands are pressured by the U.S. government to move onto a reservation, they flee north. On the journey, Seton struggles to safeguard the horses, elude soldiers - and survive. 2009.Ceremony (Recorded Books classics library)
By Leslie Marmon Silko. 2008
Tormented by shell shock and haunted by memories of his cousin who died in the war, Tayo, a mixed-blood Laguna…
Pueblo and veteran of World War II, struggles on his impoverished reservation. After turning to alcohol to ease his pain, he strives for a better understanding of who he is. 2008.Canaan: A Novel (Southern voices audio)
By Donald McCaig. 2008
Black, white, and Native Americans rebuild their lives after the Civil War. Confederate major Duncan Gatewood battles Yankee carpetbaggers on…
his Virginia plantation. Ex-slave and former soldier Edward Ratcliff and his Santee wife find acceptance among the Lakota people. 2008.Blood meridian: or the evening redness in the West
By Cormac McCarthy. 2007
1850s. A teenager known only as the Kid runs away from his alcoholic father in Tennessee. The Kid journeys west…
to the Texas-Mexico borderlands, where he encounters a ruthless paramilitary gang sent by the government to scalp Indians. 2007.Buy the chief a Cadillac
By Rick Steber. 2004
Pokey Pitsua is dismayed that the Klamath nation is accepting the U.S. government's paltry cash settlement for their million-acre timber-rich…
reservation. And sure enough, the chief buys a Cadillac with his share of the money. Some descriptions of violence, strong language. Spur Award. 2005.Bloody Bones Canyon (Cheyenne ; #19)
By Judd Cole. 1999
Touch the Sky had vowed to protect his tribe, and only he could defend them from the warriors that threatened…
to take over the camp. But when his people needed him most, the mighty shaman was forced by Cheyenne law to leave them to avenge a crime that defied belief - the slaughter of their beloved peace chief, Gray Thunder. 1999. (Cheyenne ; 19)Buffalo hiders (Cheyenne Series ; #10)
By Judd Cole. 1994
Set on the perilous frontier before the Civil War, Cheyenne is the exciting adventure series featuring young Touch the Sky,…
as he fights to find his own place within his Indian heritage and the white world in which he was raised. Here, he struggles to stop the white hunters from wiping out the buffalo. 1994. (Cheyenne Series ; 10)Consumption
By Kevin Patterson. 2006
An Inuit girl spends her teen years in the 1960s in a Montreal TB sanatorium, learning French and mathematics from…
nuns. Upon returning to Hudson Bay, Victoria feels like a stranger, and soon marries a white man. When her husband accepts work from a South African mining company that wants to dig for diamonds in the frozen tundra, things come to a boiling point. 2006.Contact prints
By Philip Kreiner. 1987
Joe is a white school teacher in an isolated community near James Bay. He decides to learn about the Indian…
way of life, which is in danger because a huge dam is being built in the centre of the Indian's hunting lands. 1987.Blackfly season (John Cardinal series. #3.)
By Giles Blunt. 2005
A young woman wanders out of the bush with no memory, due to a small-calibre bullet lodged in her brain.…
When the body of a biker/drug dealer turns up in a cave, Detectives Cardinal and Delorme treat it as a separate incident, but subsequent clues and another brutal murder seem to connect both crimes to a gang under the leadership of Ojibwa shaman Red Deer. Are the woman's returning memories the whole truth, and is Red Deer a native shaman or a monster with an appetite for murder? Sequel to "The delicate storm", followed by "By the time you read this". 2005.Bearskin diary: a novel
By Carol Daniels. 2015
Taken from the arms of her mother as soon as she was born, Sandy was only one of over twenty…
thousand Aboriginal children scooped up by the federal government between the 1960s and 1980s. Sandy was adopted by a Ukrainian family and grew up as the only First Nations child in a town of white people. Ostracized by everyone around her and tired of being different, at the early age of five she tried to scrub the brown off her skin. But she was never sent back into the foster system, and for that she considers herself lucky. From this tragic period in her personal life and in Canadian history, Sandy does not emerge unscathed, but she emerges strong--finding her way by embracing her First Nations culture. Those very roots allow Sandy to overcome the discriminations that she suffers every day from her co-workers, from strangers and sometimes even from herself. Winner of First Nation Communities Read 2017-2018. 2015.Agaguk
By Yves Thériault. 1993
Agaguk est une terrible histoire d'amour, de meurtre et de vengeance. Tout l'art d'Yves Thériault consiste à nous montrer, avec…
une puissance d'évocation éblouissante, l'éveil de l'âme, au-delà de la morale et de la décence, et à nous faire croire, encore et toujours, en l'être humain. c1958, 1993.Ajjiit: dark dreams of the ancient Arctic
By Sean A Tinsley, Rachel A Qitsualik, Andrew Trabbold. 2011
Modern interpretations of ancient shamanistic stories from the Arctic, describing the shapeshifting clans who, in winter’s long darkness, declared allegiance…
or enmity toward the human folk. Explicit descriptions of violence. 2011.