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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.
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"In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population - and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow - and dreams - means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a 15-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite...
28) Talking leaves
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235 pages ; 22 cm
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"The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son"--
29) Madchild running
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222 pages ; 24 cm
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A man tries to save a girl, caught up in urban violence in Seattle. The man is Levi Shea, a half-Indian social worker, depressed by the wrecks which flow through the shelter he operates. One day he sees Nicki, a preteen from an alcoholic family and saving her becomes his reason for living.
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195 pages ; 22 cm
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"Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world." --
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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,...
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319 pages ; 22 cm
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"Set in Western mining and ranching country, Magic Lance is a novel of intrigue, romance, suspense and personal transformation. Conflicting dreams of Indian casino operator Lucky Joe, who is buying up ranches to create a Native American state, and the small-time rancher Lance Burnett, who refuses to sell, have unforeseen and violent consequences"--Provided by publisher.
39) The owl hunt
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Skye's West volume 18
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335 pages ; 22 cm.
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When a dour fifteen-year-old Shoshone is prompted by a total eclipse to rename himself after a dreaded totemic bird and stirring discontent on the Wind River Reservation, schoolteacher Dirk, the son of Barnaby Skye, struggles to mediate a dangerous uprising.
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When the site of his daughter's upcoming wedding burns down, Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire and his friend, Henry Standing Bear, witness the falling death of a young Crow woman and are recruited into an investigation that incites the wrath of the bride-to-be.
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