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The day that Cedar Sage Stranger has been both dreading and longing for has finally come: her sister Phoenix is getting out of prison. The effect of Phoenix’s release cascades through the community. M, the young girl whom she assaulted, is triggered by the news. Her mother, Paulina, is worried and her cousin is angry—all feel the threat of Phoenix’s release. When Phoenix is seen lingering outside the school to catch a glimpse of her son, Sparrow, the police get a call to file a report—but the next thing they know, she has disappeared.

Cedar has nearly forgotten what her family looks like. Phoenix has nearly forgotten what freedom feels like. And Elsie has nearly given up hope. Nearly. After time spent in foster homes, Cedar goes to live with her estranged father. Although she grapples with the pain of being separated from her mother, Elsie, and sister, Phoenix, she’s hoping for a new chapter in her life, only to find herself once again in a strange house surrounded by strangers.

Found alive after the massacre at Wounded Knee, twelve-year-old John Iron Horse is determined not to end up like so many others of his people. Then he learns the motto of the school he's required to attend: "Kill the Indian, save the man." Carter Heath teaches in the government-run educational system and knows there's more to his position than what's happening in his classroom. He'll soon learn that in bureaucracy, politics, money, and ulterior motives are always intertwined.

From the multi-award-winning author of Winter Counts comes the second thriller featuring Native American Reservation enforcer Virgil Wounded Horse.

Corrie and her Black Horse employees are celebrating their first "No Vacancy" day of the summer, when an anonymous note arrives and puts a damper on the festivities. It warns Corrie that if she doesn't close the campground on Saturday her life will be in danger. Though Sheriff Rick Sutton and former undercover narcotics detective J. D. Wilder begin an investigation, Corrie will do anything to protect her friends and livelihood. But when one of her guests is stabbed to death, his true identity makes her a suspect in his murder.

With much of the world still undiscovered, a small band of people live a peaceful life, until the dream vision of a young boy changes everything. Only nine winters old, Feather Floating in Water's dreams turn his seemingly ordinary childhood into the journey of a lifetime.

The peace that Shining Light and his family have enjoyed in the Land of the Tall Trees is shattered by his young daughter. Dove's dream of mustangs and of a young American Indian boy named Singing Stone, and his family known as the Mustang People, will not let her rest.

Juli 1962. Eine Mi'kmaq-Familie aus Nova Scotia kommt in Maine an, um den Sommer über Blaubeeren zu pflücken. Einige Wochen später ist die vierjährige Ruthie verschwunden. Sie wird zuletzt von ihrem sechsjährigen Bruder Joe gesehen, als sie auf ihrem Lieblingsstein am Rande eines Beerenfeldes sitzt. Ihr Verschwinden wirft Rätsel auf, die Joe und seine Familie verfolgen und fast fünfzig Jahre lang ungelöst bleiben.

In the 1950s Gulf Country of Queensland’s far North, black and white cultures collide in a thousand ways as Aboriginal spirituality clashes with the complex brutality of colonisation at St Dominic’s Mission. When Ivy Koopundi and her mother arrive at the Mission, they are immediately separated and Ivy’s life changes irrevocably. Years later, Mary, a young woman who is working for a city-based Aboriginal Coalition, visits the old Mission and learns of her mother’s and grandmother’s suffering there.

Film star Sharon David travels to Wind River country, convinced that she was adopted at birth from the reservation.

The Wind River Reservation agrees to a nuclear-waste storage site in exchange for jobs and millions in revenue. But murder points Vicky Holden and Father John toward a larger plot.

When the body of a white man is recovered from a shallow grave in one of the most troubled corners of the Wind River Reservation, Father John O'Malley knows that if the murderer isn't caught quickly, this tragedy will only be the beginning. The victim's widow is already out for revenge. And the one person Father John believes could lead him to the killer is a terrified 15-year-old girl running for her life.

Father John O'Malley discovers a frozen body on the Arapaho Reservation, a corpse that later disappears. O'Malley and Vicky Holden draw upon ancient traditions to stop the murderer.

Father John O'Malley and attorney Vicky Holden investigate the murder of an Arapaho student interested in a priceless Arapaho ledger, a ledger recently missing from a museum.

Hawk has successfully avenged the murder of his family, but his quest is far from over. Now stalked by an evil sorceress, Lady NicNeev, after thwarting her plans of conquest, he and his partner, Mórag, must set out to slay the lady’s dragon to protect the ones they love.

Colorado, 1864. Jude Star, un giovane Cheyenne sopravvissuto al massacro di Sand Creek, viene mandato nella prigione di Fort Marion, dove è costretto a imparare l'inglese e a praticare il cristianesimo da Richard Henry Pratt, una guardia carceraria evangelica che fonderà la Carlisle Indian Industrial School, un'istituzione dedicata allo sradicamento della storia, della cultura e dell'identità dei nativi. Una generazione dopo, il figlio di Star, Charles, che frequenta quella scuola, viene brutalizzato dall'uomo che era stato il carceriere di suo padre.

Eli Asher is in hot water. He's not sure which one is adding up faster, the lies he's told his wife or the past due notices they are getting. He needs a job, a good job with benefits so he can take care of his family. He thinks he has one, but loses it to a member of some secret society that he wants no part of, until his hot water starts to boil and he has no choice but to take a leap of faith. That leap takes him away from his family and on a cross country adventure where he does a series of simple jobs, working with some incredible people.

Collecting over twenty-five essays written by more than twenty California Indian authors, Know We Are Here surveys many of the ways California's Indigenous communities are resisting the legacies of genocide. Focusing on the particular histories, challenges, and dynamics of life in Native California—which are often very different from elsewhere in the United States—the book collects essays from writers across the state. It encompasses the perspectives of both elders and the rising generation, and the contributors include activists, academics, students, memoirists, and tribal leaders.

Mauro Esparza es un escritor del montón pero, con su última novela ha conseguido un éxito de ventas suficiente para ser tenido en cuenta. Aprovechando su momento de gloria es invitado a una conferencia arqueológica sobre los indios tayrona. Allí conoce a la doctora Alicia Samsonite y es nombrado al azar miembro de una expedición que ha de dirigirse a Colombia, a Ciudad Perdida, en busca de una leyenda con siglos de historia. Una vez allí tendrá que enfrentarse a múltiples amenazas, aventuras y traiciones.

Na tien jaar gevangenschap komt Tookie abrupt vrij. Gedreven door haar in de cel ontdekte liefde voor boeken begint ze aan een nieuw hoofdstuk. Ze vindt een baan als boekverkoper bij een kleine boekhandel in Minneapolis die is gespecialiseerd in inheems-Amerikaanse verhalen. Daar ontmoet ze Flora, haar 'irritantste favoriete klant'. Altijd was zij in de boekhandel te vinden, totdat ze op Allerzielen plotseling overlijdt. Maar ze verdwijnt niet. Wanneer Flora's geest in de winkel terugkeert en haar blijft achtervolgen, wordt Tookie gedwongen het mysterie rondom Flora's leven en haar dood te ontrafelen.