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"Stacie Shannon Denetsosie confronts long-reaching effects of settler-colonialism on Native lives in a series of gritty, wildly imaginative stories. A young Navajo man catches a ride home alongside a casket he's sure contains his dead grandfather. A gas station clerk witnesses the kidnapping of the newly crowned Miss Northwestern Arizona. A young couple's search for a sperm donor raises questions of blood quantum. This debut collection grapples with...

A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana whose story was told in the Island of the Blue Dolphins.

"Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians 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 retribution, these childhood friends are helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a violent, vengeful way."--

While his tribe is ready to move on, little Sioux Yakari sets off for the unknown to follow the trail of Little Thunder, a mustang. Along the way, Yakari has a magical encounter with the Great Eagle, his totem animal, who gives him the gift of speaking with animals. All alone and for the first time, he embarks on an amazing adventure.

On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both became leaders in their societies at very...

Edie has always known that she is half Native American. She also knows that her mom was adopted by a white couple and has no connection to her birth family. So even though Edie is curious to learn about her heritage, she realizes her mom doesn't have any answers. That is, until the summer day when she and her friends discover a box hidden in the attic, full of old photos of a woman who looks just like Edie and letters signed "Love, Edith." Suddenly,...

The unflappable Sheriff Walt Longmire and his deputies are trying to put the troubling events of the past behind them. The mysterious White Warrior who tormented Branch is dead. Walt's best friend Henry Standing Bear is a free man. Longmire's right-hand deputy Victoria "Vic" Moretti is newly divorced. And the mystery of Walt's wife's murder is seemingly resolved. But, the opening of the new casino on the Reservation brings dark new problems to Walt's...

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation, was born with a variety of medical problems. Determined to receive a good education, he leaves the rez to attend an all-white school in the neighboring farm town. There, the only other Indian is the...

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, the author has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to the Americas, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In this book, she brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans...