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Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger | Available on Hoopla
Elatsoe lives in this slightly stranger America. She can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family. Her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes. But she is going to do more than pry. The picture-perfect facade of Willowbee masks gruesome secrets, and she will rely on her wits, skills, and friends to tear off the mask and protect her family.
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The Round House by Louise Erdrich | Available on Hoopla
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, fourteen-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family.
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown | Available on Hoopla
The systematic destruction of the American Indians, told in the words of those who were there.
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A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
Available on Hoopla A personal meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America, in an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about Native people in North America.
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The Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
Available on Hoopla A tale set in a world of reversing evolution and a growing police state follows pregnant twenty-six-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, who investigates her biological family while awaiting the birth of a child who may emerge as a member of a primitive human species.
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Flight by Sherman Alexie
Available on Hoopla On the verge of committing an act of violence, a troubled, orphaned Indian teenager finds himself hurtled through time and into the bodies of a civil rights era FBI agent, an Indian child during the battle at Little Big Horn, a nineteenth-century Indian tracker, and a modern-day airline pilot, before returning to himself, forever altered by his experiences.
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“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker | Available on Hoopla
Critically deconstructs persistent myths about American Indians that have taken hold in the United States.
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | Available on Hoopla Challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the indigenous peoples was genocidal and imperialist, designed to crush the original inhabitants. Spanning more than 300 years, a classic bottom-up history significantly reframes how we view our past. Told from the viewpoint of the indigenous, it reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the U.S. empire.
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer | Available on Hoopla
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise.
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Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
by David Treuer | Available on Hoopla Presents an insider chronicle of the history of Indian reservations and contemporary Native American life, highlighting misunderstood issues and examining the historical tensions between Native Americans and the U.S. government.
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Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson
Available on Hoopla With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family, where he keeps mostly to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface. At least until he meets seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another youth staying with the Troutts.
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LaRose by Louise Erdrich
Available on Hoopla Horrified when he accidentally kills his best friend's 5-year-old son while hunting, Landreaux Iron gives away his own young son to his friend's family according to ancient tradition, a decision that helps both families reach a tenuous peace that is threatened by a vengeful adversary.
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Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch | Available on OverDrive
Tells the true crime story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it.
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Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
Available on OverDrive A trilogy debut is inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and follows the unbalancing of the holy city of Tova amid a fateful solstice eclipse.
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Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Available on OverDrive
Available on OverDrive
A vigilante enforcer on South Dakota's Rosebud Indian Reservation enlists the help of an ex to investigate the activities of an expanding drug cartel, while a new tribal council initiative raises controversial questions.
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