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• Book Match

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  Fill out a survey with information about your reading tastes, and one of our matchmakers will send you a personalized reading list within two weeks. You can select a specific matchmaker, or you can fill out a general survey and one of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• By the Fire We Carry

  the Generations-long Fight for Justice on Native Land

  Nagle, Rebecca,

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• Never Whistle at Night

  An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

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  A collection of 25 original short stories from various Indigenous authors including Tommy Orange, Darcie Little Badger, Shane Hawk, Rebecca Roanhorse, and more.

• The Sentence

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  "A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An American Sunrise

  Poems

  Harjo, Joy,

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  "In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territoty, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family's lands and opens a dialogue…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where Wolves Don't Die

  Treuer, Anton,

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  "Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojibwe, at a local college, so they have to be there. But Ezra hates the dirty, polluted snow around them. He hates being away from the rez at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

  Native America From 1890 to the Present

  Treuer, David,

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  "The received idea of Native American history -- as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's 1970 mega-bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee -- has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Was a Teenage Slasher

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  "1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton--and a place where everyone knows everyone else's business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Murder on the Red River

  Rendon, Marcie R.,

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  "Set in 1970s along Red River Valley, Marcie R. Rendon's gripping new mystery follows the life of a young Ojibwe woman as she struggles to come to terms with the callous murder of a Native American stranger, bringing to life the gritty, dark reality…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Truth According to Ember

  Nava, Danica,

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  "A Native American woman who can't catch a break serves up a little white lie that snowballs into much more in this witty and entertaining rom-com by debut author Danica Nava."

• Dreams. Volume 1, Visions of the Crow

  John-Kehewin, Wanda, 1971-

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  "The Dreams series of graphic novels explores cultural connection as a path to healing. Volume 1, Visions of the Crow, explores urban Indigenous experiences through the eyes of a Cree-Metis teen as he learns about his identity and finding home.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shutter

  Emerson, Ramona, 1973-

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  "Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases-she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dream Drawings

  Configurations of a Timeless Kind

  Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-

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  "From Pulitzer Prize winner and celebrated American master N. Scott Momaday, a collection of 100 new prose poems, rooted in Native American oral tradition, along with 5-7 pieces of art by the author."

• Black Sun

  Roanhorse, Rebecca,

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  "A god will return when the earth and sky converge under the black sun in the holy city of Tova... The winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indian Burial Ground

  Medina, Nick,

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  "A man lunges in front of a car. An elderly woman silently drowns herself. A corpse sits up in its coffin and speaks. On this reservation, not all is what it seems, in this new spine-chilling mythological horror from the author of Sisters of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Apple

  Skin to the Core : a Memoir in Words and Pictures

  Gansworth, Eric, 1965-

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  "In Apple (Skin to the Core), Eric Gansworth tells his story, the story of his family—of Onondaga among Tuscaroras—of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Braiding Sweetgrass

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall,

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  "As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad Medicine

  Twin, Christopher,

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  "After wandering out to the river near their homes, five teens decide to build a fire and exchange horror stories. Chad begins by telling the group about an unfortunate fisher who encountered a cluster of small, malevolent creatures while navigating…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Rediscovery of America

  Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

  Blackhawk, Ned,

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  "The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• There There

  a Novel

  Orange, Tommy, 1982-

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  "Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize."