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• Tears in the Grass

  a Novel

  Archer, Lynda A.

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  Elinor, a 90-year-old Saskatchewan Cree woman, is determined to find the daughter that was taken away from her when she was raped as a child in residential school.

• The Round House

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise

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  When 13-year-old Joseph’s mother is violently raped, he will stop at nothing to seek justice for the crime that tears his family apart. A gripping and thoughtful coming of age story set on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota in 1988.

• Where I Belong

  White, Tara

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  Carrie's vivid dreams prompt her to question what it means to be a part of the Native world. A raw and honest tale of self-discovery and belonging set during the 1990s Oka crisis. Appropriate for reluctant teen readers.

• Five Little Indians

  a Novel

  Good, Michelle

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  With compassion and insight, Five Little Indians chronicles the desperate quest of these residential school survivors to come to terms with their past and, ultimately, find a way forward.

• There There

  a Novel

  Orange, Tommy, 1982-

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  A wondrous and shattering novel that 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.

• Tilly and the Crazy Eights

  Gray Smith, Monique, 1968-

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  When Tilly receives an invitation to help drive eight elders on their ultimate bucket-list road trip, she impulsively says yes. Before she knows it, Tilly has said good-bye to her family and is on an adventure that will transform her in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moon of the Crusted Snow

  a Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-

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  Tensions rise in a small Anishinaabe community after a devastating winter storm leaves them in complete isolation for months on end.

• Son of a Trickster

  Robinson, Eden

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  Everyday teen existence meets indigenous beliefs, crazy family dynamics, and cannibalistic river otters . . . The exciting first novel in her trickster trilogy.

• Jonny Appleseed

  a Novel

  Whitehead, Joshua (Writer),

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  A tour-de-force debut novel about a Two-Spirit Indigiqueer young man and proud NDN glitter princess who must reckon with his past when he returns home to his reserve.

• Green Grass, Running Water

  King, Thomas, 1943-

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  Strong, sassy women and hard-luck, hard-headed men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Break

  Vermette, Katherena, 1977-

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  Told in a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected (both directly and indirectly) with the victim of a crime tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night.

• Bad Cree

  a Novel

  Johns, Jessica

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  Haunting, fierce, an ode to female relations and the strength found in kinship, Bad Cree is a gripping, arresting debut by an unforgettable voice.

• My Indian Summer

  a Novel

  Kakwinokanasum, Joseph

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  A journey to understanding that some villains are also victims, and that while reconciliation may not be possible, survival is.

• The Theory of Crows

  a Novel

  Robertson, David, 1977-

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  When a troubled father and his estranged teenage daughter head out onto the land in search of the family trapline, they find their way back to themselves, and to each other.

• The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour

  Dumont, Dawn, 1978-

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  The hilarious story of an unlikely group of Indigenous dancers who find themselves thrown together on a performance tour of Europe.

• The Only Good Indians

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier.

• Calling for a Blanket Dance

  a Novel

  Hokeah, Oscar, 1975-

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  Told in a series of voices, this novel takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles including the constant resettlement of the family, and the legacy of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Coexistence

  Stories

  Belcourt, Billy-Ray

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  A collection of intersecting stories about Indigenous love and loneliness from one of contemporary literature's most boundless minds.