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Series: Life in the City of Dirty Water A Memoir of Healing Hardcover Clayton Thomas-Muller 9780735240063 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 24, 2021

An electrifying memoir that braids together the urgent issues of Indigenous rights and environmental policy, from a nationally and internationally recognized activist and survivor.There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child who played with toy planes as an escape from domestic and sexual abuse, enduring the intergenerational trauma of Canada’s residential school system; the angry youngster who defended himself with fists and sharp wit against racism and violence, at school and on the streets of Winnipeg and small-town British Columbi... + Read More
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Series: NISHGA Hardcover Jordan Abel 9780771007903 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 18, 2021

From Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastating autobiographical meditation that attempts to address the complicated legacies of Canada’s residential school system and contemporary Indigenous existence.As a Nisga’a writer, Jordan Abel often finds himself in a position where he is asked to explain his relationship to Nisga’a language, Nisga’a community, and Nisga’a cultural knowledge. However, as an intergenerational survivor of residential school—both of his grandparents attended the same re... + Read More
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Series: White Magic Hardcover Elissa Washuta 9781951142391 $35.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Apr 27, 2021

“White Magic is magnificent.” —Kristen Arnett Bracingly honest and powerfully affecting, White Magic establishes Elissa Washuta as one of our best living essayists.Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, “starter witch kits” of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic. Following a decade of abuse, addiction, PTSD, and heavy-duty drug treatment for a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, she felt drawn to the real spirits and powers her ... + Read More
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Series: Call Me Indian From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the NHL's First Treaty Indigenous Player Hardcover Fred Sasakamoose 9780735240018 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 18, 2021

“Fred Sasakamoose played in the NHL before First Nations people had the right to vote in Canada. This page turner will have you cheering for ’Fast Freddy’ as he faces off against huge challenges both on and off the ice—a great gift to every proud hockey fan, Canadian, and Indigenous person.”—Wab Kinew, Leader of the Manitoba NDP and author of The Reason You WalkTrailblazer. Residential school Survivor. First Treaty Indigenous player in the NHL. All of these descriptions are true—but none of them tell the whole story.Fred Sasakamoose, torn from ... + Read More
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Series: The Water Lady How Darlene Arviso Helps a Thirsty Navajo Nation Hardcover Alice B. McGinty 9780525645009 $23.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Mar 30, 2021

This inspiring picture book tells the true story of a woman who brings desperately needed water to families on the Navajo reservation every day. Underneath the New Mexico sky, a Navajo boy named Cody finds that his family’s barrels of water are empty. He checks the chicken coop—nothing. He walks down the road to the horses’ watering hole. Dry. Meanwhile, a few miles away, Darlene Arviso drives a school bus and picks up students for school. After dropping them off, she heads to another job: she drives her big yellow tanker truck to the water tow... + Read More
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Series: Peacemaker Hardcover Joseph Bruchac 9781984815378 $22.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Jan 05, 2021

A twelve-year-old Iroquois boy searches for peace in this historical novel based on the creation of the Iroquois Confederacy.Twelve-year-old Okwaho’s life has suddenly changed. While he and his best friend are out hunting, his friend is kidnapped by men from a neighboring tribal nation, and Okwaho barely escapes. Everyone in his village fears more raids and killings: The Five Nations of the Iroquois have been at war with one another for far too long, and no one can remember what it was like to live in peace.Okwaho is so angry that he wants to s... + Read More
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Series: Oak Flat A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West Hardcover Lauren Redniss 9780399589720 $40.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 17, 2020

A powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational mining corporation, by MacArthur “Genius” and National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, the acclaimed author of Thunder & Lightning.Oak Flat is a serene high elevation mesa that sits above the southeastern Arizona desert, fifteen miles to the west of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. For the San Carlos tribe, Oak Flat is a holy place, an ancient burial ground and religious site where Apache girls cel... + Read More
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Series: Unsettled Ground The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West Hardcover Cassandra Tate 9781632172501 $24.95 HISTORY Nov 17, 2020

“A highly readable, myth-busting, fact-based story. [A] tale for all who love the West, its history and its truths.”—The InlanderHistorian and journalist Cassandra Tate takes a fresh look at the personalities, dynamics, disputes, social pressures, and shifting legacy of the Whitman Massacre—a pivotal event in the history of the American West—including the often-missing Indian point of view.In 1836, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, devout missionaries from upstate New York, established a Presbyterian mission on Cayuse Indian land near what is now th... + Read More
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Series: Black Sun Rising / La Corazonada A novel / una novela Paperback Barry Gifford 9781609809980 $24.95 FICTION Nov 10, 2020

The first Western noir by Barry Gifford, “a killer fuckin’ writer.” (David Lynch)Based on historical events in 1851, this Western noir novella traces the struggle of the first integrated Native American tribe to establish themselves on the North American continent. After escaping the Oklahoma relocation camps they had been placed in following their forced evacuation from Florida, the Seminole Indians banded with fugitive slaves from the American South to fulfill the vision of their leader, Coyote, to establish their land in Mexico’s Nacimiento.... + Read More
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Series: Tecumseh and the Prophet The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation Hardcover Peter Cozzens 9781524733254 $47.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 27, 2020

“An insightful, unflinching portrayal of the remarkable siblings who came closer to altering the course of American history than any other Indian leaders.”⁠—Professor H.W. Brands, author of The Zealot and the EmancipatorThe first biography of the great Shawnee leader to make clear that his misunderstood younger brother, Tenskwatawa, was an equal partner in the last great pan-Indian alliance against the United States. Until the Americans killed Tecumseh in 1813, he and his brother Tenskwatawa were the co-architects of the broadest pan-Indian con... + Read More
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Series: Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band Paperback Christian Staebler 9781684057146 $25.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 27, 2020

Experience the riveting, powerful story of the Native American civil rights movement and the resulting struggle for identity told through the high-flying career of West Coast rock ’n’ roll pioneers Redbone.You’ve heard the hit song “Come and Get Your Love” in the movie Guardians of the Galaxy, but the story of the band behind it is one of cultural, political, and social importance.Brothers Pat and Lolly Vegas were talented Native American rock musicians that took the 1960s Sunset Strip by storm. They influenced The Doors and jammed with Jimmy H... + Read More
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Series: Arctic culture and climate Hardcover Amber Lincoln 9780500480663 $79.00 HISTORY Oct 20, 2020

From the origins of the Arctic to its contemporary life, this book is an intriguing survey of human achievement in a place relatively unknown to the rest of the world.For more than 25,000 years, Arctic peoples have made warm and hospitable homes in diverse and innovative ways out of ecosystems of ice. For the first time in their long history, however, Arctic communities are facing the real possibility that the foundations of their way of life—sea ice and permafrost—will soon disappear. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Britis... + Read More
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Series: The Whale Child Paperback Keith Egawa 9781623174866 $25.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10 Oct 13, 2020

An inspiring middle-grade chapter book that introduces young readers to the environmental challenges facing the planet through the eyes of Coast Salish characters and authors.“You have family on land as you do in the sea…being a caretaker of the earth begins with taking care of the water that all life depends on.”Shiny is a whale child. One day his mother teaches him about the harm facing the world’s oceans because of human carelessness. Shiny agrees to be turned into a boy by the ocean’s water spirit so he can visit the land and alert people t... + Read More
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Series: The Radiant Lives of Animals Hardcover Linda Hogan 9780807047927 $25.95 NATURE Oct 13, 2020

From a celebrated Chickasaw writer, a spiritual meditation, in prose and poetry, on our relationship to the animal world, in an illustrated gift package.Concerned that human lives and the natural world are too often defined by people who are separated from the land and its inhabitants, Indigenous writer and environmentalist Linda Hogan depicts her own intense relationships with animals as an example we all can follow to heal our souls and reconnect with the spirit of the world. From her modest forest home in Colorado, and venturing throughout t... + Read More
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Series: Penguin Poets Little Big Bully Paperback Heid E. Erdrich 9780143135920 $27.00 POETRY Oct 06, 2020

In a new collection that is “a force of nature” (Amy Gerstler), renowned Native poet Heid E. Erdrich applies her rich inventive voice and fierce wit to the deforming effects of harassment and oppression.Little Big Bully begins with a question asked of a collective and troubled we - how did we come to this? In answer, this book offers personal myth, American and Native American contexts, and allegories driven by women’s resistance to narcissists, stalkers, and harassers. These poems are immediate, personal, political, cultural, even futuristic o... + Read More
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Series: The Martyrdom of Collins Catch the Bear Paperback Gerry Spence 9781609809669 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 06, 2020

The search for justice for a Lakota Sioux man wrongfully charged with murder, told here for the first time by his trial lawyer, Gerry Spence. This is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a Lakota Sioux, who was wrongfully charged with the murder of a white man in 1982 at Russell Means’s Yellow Thunder Camp, an AIM encampment in the Black Hills in South Dakota. Though Collins was innocent, he took the fall for the actual killer, a man placed in the camp with the intention of compromising the reputation of AIM. This story reveals the strug... + Read More
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Series: A Longmire Mystery Next to Last Stand A Longmire Mystery Hardcover Craig Johnson 9780525522539 $37.00 FICTION Sep 22, 2020

The new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer’s Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of over two million copies a year, was destroyed in a fire at the 7th Cavalry Headquarters in Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1946. Or was it? When Charley Lee Stillwater dies of an apparent heart attack at the Wyoming Home for Soldiers & Sailors, Walt Longmire is called in to try and make sense of a piece of a painting and a Florsheim shoebox containing a mil... + Read More
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Series: Why We Serve Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces Hardcover NMAI 9781588346971 $39.95 HISTORY Sep 15, 2020

Rare stories from more than 250 years of Native Americans’ service in the militaryWhy We Serve commemorates the 2020 opening of the National Native American Veterans Memorial at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the first landmark in Washington, DC, to recognize the bravery and sacrifice of Native veterans. American Indians’ history of military service dates to colonial times, and today, they serve at one of the highest rates of any ethnic group. Why We Serve explores the range of reasons why, from love of their home to an... + Read More
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Series: Why We Serve, Deluxe Edition Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces Hardcover NMAI 9781588346995 $66.00 HISTORY Sep 15, 2020

Rare stories from more than 250 years of Native Americans’ service in the militaryWhy We Serve, Deluxe Edition, limited to 500 copies, is a stunning keepsake or gift. The lavish cloth cover with a beautiful 4-color image tipped on is encased in a translucent jacket. Illustrations celebrating Native American service in the armed forces pop on 100# matte art stock.Why We Serve commemorates the 2020 opening of the National Native American Veterans Memorial at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the first landmark in Washington,... + Read More
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Series: Empire of Wild Paperback Cherie Dimaline 9780735277205 $21.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2020

INDIGO’S #1 BEST BOOK OF 2019NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Ripping, roaring, fur-flying, and more!” says Margaret Atwood about this captivating novel from the author of The Marrow Thieves, the #1 national bestseller, multi-award winner, and Canada Reads finalist“Wildly entertaining and profound and essential.”—Tommy Orange, The New York TimesBroken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year—ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument. One hung-over morning in a Walmart parking lot in a lit... + Read More
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Series: The Misewa Saga The Barren Grounds The Misewa Saga, Book One Hardcover David A. Robertson 9780735266100 $21.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 Sep 08, 2020

Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson.Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home—until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing ... + Read More
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Series: Carry A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land Hardcover Toni Jensen 9781984821188 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 08, 2020

“So strong, bright, and clear. We need more voices like Toni’s, more books like Carry.”—Tommy OrangeA powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author’s encounters with gun violence—for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Terese Marie Mailhot.Toni Jensen grew up in the Midwest around guns: As a girl, she learned how to shoot birds with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. As an adult, she’s had guns waved in her face in the fracklands around Standing Rock, and felt their si... + Read More
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Series: Arctic Crashes: People and Animals in the Changing North Hardcover Igor Krupnik 9781944466343 $47.00 NATURE Sep 01, 2020

This volume is the key outcome of the Arctic Crashes project, “Arctic People and Animal Crashes: Human, Climate and Habitat Agency in the Anthropocene.” This project was implemented during 2014–2016 by a team of scholars at the Smithsonian Institution’s Arctic Studies Center in collaboration with their colleagues and indigenous partners from the U.S., Canada, Denmark, Greenland, and the Netherlands, and was supported by the Smithsonian Grand Challenges Consortia grant. The Arctic Crashes team introduced a new vision to explore human–animal–clim... + Read More
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Series: When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry Paperback Joy Harjo 9780393356809 $25.95 POETRY Aug 25, 2020

Selected as one of Oprah Winfrey’s “Books That Help Me Through” United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize–winner N. Scott Momaday, the book contains powerful introductions from contributing editors ... + Read More
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Series: A History of My Brief Body Hardcover Billy-Ray Belcourt 9780735237780 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 25, 2020

The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be.Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. From there, it expands to encompass the big and broken world around him, in all its complexity and contradictions: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it, first loves and first loves lost, sexua... + Read More
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Series: An American Sunrise Poems Paperback Joy Harjo 9780393358483 $21.95 POETRY Aug 18, 2020

National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land. In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family’s lands and opens a dialogue with history. In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people... + Read More
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Series: A Longmire Mystery Land of Wolves A Longmire Mystery Paperback Craig Johnson 9780525522522 $23.00 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

Sheriff Walt Longmire investigate the death of a shepherd connected to the Extepares, a powerful family of Basque ranchers with a history of violenceRecovering from his harrowing experiences in Mexico, Sheriff Walt Longmire returns to Absaroka County, Wyoming, to lick his wounds and try once again to maintain justice in a place with grudges that go back generations. When an itinerant shepherd is found dead, Longmire suspects it could be a suicide. But the shepherd’s connection to the Extepares, a powerful family of Basque ranchers with a histor... + Read More
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Series: Highway of Tears A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Paperback Jessica McDiarmid 9780385687591 $21.00 TRUE CRIME Jul 14, 2020

Finalist for the 2020 RBC Taylor PrizeFinalist for the 2020 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction PrizeNational BestsellerA Hill Times Best Book of the YearA penetrating and deeply moving account of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls of Highway 16, and a searing indictment of the society that failed them.For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The highway is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national cr... + Read More
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Series: Heart Berries A Memoir Paperback Terese Marie Mailhot 9780385691161 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 02, 2020

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Heart Berries is a sledgehammer…a mixture of vulnerability and rage, sexual yearning and artistic ambition, swagger and self-mockery…. A new model for the memoir.”—The New York Times“An astounding memoir in essays. Here is a wound. Here is need, naked and unapologetic. Here is a mountain woman, towering in words great and small…. What Mailhot has accomplished in this exquisite book is brilliance both raw and refined.” -Roxane Gay, author of Hunger Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on the ... + Read More
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Series: A Mind Spread Out on the Ground Paperback Alicia Elliott 9780385692403 $21.00 HISTORY Jun 02, 2020

Finalist for the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction#1 National BestsellerA bold and profound work by Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground is a personal and critical meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America. In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight and unde... + Read More
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Series: Yua: Spirit of the Arctic Highlights from the Thomas G. Fowler Collection Hardcover William Fitzhugh 9783791359458 $54.00 ART May 19, 2020

This superb collection of works by Native Alaskan and Canadian Inuit artists celebrates their creativity and skill while highlighting the history and culture of the Arctic.Over the course of his life, artist, adventurer, and collector Thomas G. Fowler gathered a rich and diverse group of works by Native artists from the Arctic. He was inspired by the concept of yua, a recognition that all things, including objects, have a unique inner essence or spirit. The works in his collection embody this view and highlight the raw materials used to make th... + Read More
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Series: Hearts Unbroken Paperback Cynthia Leitich Smith 9781536213133 $11.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 Apr 14, 2020

Winner of an American Indian Youth Literature Award New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith turns to realistic fiction with the thoughtful story of a Native teen navigating the complicated, confusing waters of high school — and first love.When Louise Wolfe’s first real boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. It’s her senior year, anyway, and she’d rather spend her time with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up ... + Read More
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Series: Buck Naked Kitchen Radiant and Nourishing Recipes to Fuel Your Health Journey Hardcover Kirsten Buck 9780735236813 $35.00 COOKING Apr 07, 2020

Beautiful and delicious gluten-free, grain-free, and dairy-free recipes, fully endorsed by Whole30.As millions of people know, one of the toughest things about completing the Whole30 is figuring out what to eat the other 335 days of the year. Kirsten Buck, creator of Buck Naked Kitchen, struggled with her weight and chronic eczema for years before she transformed her life through food. She adopted a mostly paleo way of eating—gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, healthy fats, no refined sugars—and experienced dramatic weight loss. Soon after sh... + Read More
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Series: Canyon Dreams A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation Hardcover Michael Powell 9780525534662 $37.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Nov 19, 2019

The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, but also the greater, unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations.Deep in the heart of Arizona, in a small and isolated patch of the 17-1/2-million-acre Navajo reservation, sits Chinle High School. Here, basketball is the passion. It’s a sport for winters where it can get dark fast; when there is not much else to do, the students and their parents say, but work and drink. The ... + Read More
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Series: National Geographic Kids Encyclopedia of American Indian History and Culture Stories, Timelines, Maps, and More Hardcover Cynthia O'Brien 9781426334535 $33.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Oct 29, 2019
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Series: Totem Spirit Animals of Ancient Civilizations Hardcover Mia Cassany 9783791374017 $19.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 5 - 9 Oct 22, 2019

From cats to crocodiles, lions to eagles—discover the animals that were important to ancient civilizations and their mythologies.Ancient cultures regarded animals as emblems of power and magic. An array of animals helped shape entire societies and religions. Now, this boldly inventive book helps young readers grasp just how important animals were to those that came before us. Each civilization is depicted in double-page spreads that feature captivating drawings alongside informative texts. As readers travel from culture to culture, they will le... + Read More
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Series: Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun Portraits of Everyday Life in Eight Indigenous Communities Paperback Paul Seesequasis 9780735273313 $32.95 HISTORY Oct 22, 2019

A revelatory portrait of eight Indigenous communities from across North America, shown through never-before-published archival photographs—a gorgeous extension of Paul Seesequasis’s popular social media project.In 2015, writer and journalist Paul Seesequasis found himself grappling with the devastating findings of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission report on the residential school system. He sought understanding and inspiration in the stories of his mother, herself a residential school survivor. Gradually, Paul realized that another, ... + Read More
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Series: Encounter Hardcover Brittany Luby 9780735265813 $21.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Oct 01, 2019

Two people navigate their differences with curiosity and openness in this stunning picture book that imagines the first meeting between an Indigenous fisher and a European sailor.Based on an actual journal entry by French explorer Jacques Cartier from his first expedition to North America in July 1534, this story imagines the first encounter between a European sailor and a Stadaconan fisher. As the two navigate their differences (language, dress, food) with curiosity, the natural world around them notes their similarities. The seagull observes ... + Read More
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Series: Peace and Good Order The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada Hardcover Harold R. Johnson 9780771048722 $25.00 HISTORY Sep 24, 2019

An urgent, informed, intimate condemnation of the Canadian state and its failure to deliver justice to Indigenous people by national bestselling author and former Crown prosecutor Harold R. Johnson.“The night of the decision in the Gerald Stanley trial for the murder of Colten Boushie, I received a text message from a retired provincial court judge. He was feeling ashamed for his time in a system that was so badly tilted. I too feel this way about my time as both defence counsel and as a Crown prosecutor; that I didn’t have the courage to stand... + Read More
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Series: At the Mountain's Base Hardcover Traci Sorell 9780735230606 $23.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Sep 17, 2019

A family, separated by duty and distance, waits for a loved one to return home in this lyrical picture book celebrating the bonds of a Cherokee family and the bravery of history-making women pilots.At the mountain’s base sits a cabin under an old hickory tree. And in that cabin lives a family—loving, weaving, cooking, and singing. The strength in their song sustains them through trials on the ground and in the sky, as they wait for their loved one, a pilot, to return from war.With an author’s note that pays homage to the true history of Native ... + Read More
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Series: Thunder Through My Veins A Memoir Paperback Gregory Scofield 9780385692748 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 10, 2019

Gregory Scofield’s Thunder Through My Veins is the heartbreakingly beautiful memoir of one man’s journey toward self-discovery, acceptance, and the healing power of art.Few people can justify a memoir at the age of thirty-three. Gregory Scofield is the exception, a young man who has inhabited several lives in the time most of us can manage only one. Born into a Métis family of Cree, Scottish, English and French descent but never told of his heritage, Gregory knew he was different. His father disappeared after he was born, and at five he was sep... + Read More
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Series: Red River Girl The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine Paperback Joanna Jolly 9780735233935 $24.95 TRUE CRIME Aug 27, 2019

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA gripping account of the unsolved death of an Indigenous teenager, and the detective determined to find her killer, set against the backdrop of a troubled city.On August 17, 2014, the body of fifteen-year old runaway Tina Fontaine was found in Winnipeg’s Red River. It was wrapped in material and weighted down with rocks. Red River Girl is a gripping account of that murder investigation and the unusual police detective who pursued the killer with every legal means at his disposal. The book, like the movie Spotlight, will chro... + Read More
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Series: Pushing up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Paperback Joseph Bruchac 9781984814838 $13.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10 Aug 27, 2019

A classroom favorite for twenty years, this collection of short plays inspired by Native American stories is now available in paperback.From acclaimed Native American storyteller Joseph Bruchac comes a collection of seven lively plays for children to perform, each one adapted from a different traditional Native tale. Filled with heroes and tricksters, comedy and drama, these entertaining plays are a wonderful way to bring Native cultures to life for young people. Each play has multiple parts that can be adjusted to suit the size of a particular... + Read More
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Series: Two Roads Paperback Joseph Bruchac 9780735228870 $11.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 Aug 27, 2019

A boy discovers his Native American heritage in this Depression-era tale of identity and friendship by the author of Code TalkerIt’s 1932, and twelve-year-old Cal Black and his Pop have been riding the rails for years after losing their farm in the Great Depression. Cal likes being a “knight of the road” with Pop, even if they’re broke. But then Pop has to go to Washington, DC—some of his fellow veterans are marching for their government checks, and Pop wants to make sure he gets his due—and Cal can’t go with him. So Pop tells Cal something he ... + Read More
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Series: Where the Dead Sit Talking Paperback Brandon Hobson 9781641290173 $20.00 FICTION Jun 04, 2019

2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION FINALIST Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, Where the Dead Sit Talking is a stunning and lyrical Native American coming-of-age story. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his mother’s years of substance abuse, Sequoyah keeps mostly to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface. At least until he meets seventeen-year-old Rosemary, a troubled artist who ... + Read More
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Series: Modern Library Torchbearers American Indian Stories Paperback Zitkala-Sa 9781984854216 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 21, 2019

A groundbreaking Dakota author and activist chronicles her refusal to assimilate into nineteenth-century white society and her mission to preserve her culture—with an introduction by Layli Long Soldier, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for Whereas Bright and carefree, Zitkála-Šá grows up on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota with her mother until Quaker missionaries arrive, offering the reservation’s children a free education. The catch: They must leave their parents behind and travel... + Read More
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Series: The Things She's Seen Hardcover Ambelin Kwaymullina 9781984848789 $23.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 May 14, 2019

This brilliantly written thriller explores the lives--and deaths--of two girls, and what they will do to win justice. Sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the year!Nothing's been the same for Beth Teller since the day she died.Her dad is drowning in grief. He's also the only one who has been able to see and hear her since the accident. But now she's got a mystery to solve, a mystery that will hopefully remind her detective father that he needs to reconnect with the living.The case takes them to a remote Australian town, where there... + Read More
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Series: As Long as Grass Grows The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock Hardcover Dina Gilio-Whitaker 9780807073780 $34.95 HISTORY Apr 02, 2019

The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activismThrough the unique lens of “Indigenized environmental justice,” Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty violations, struggles for food and water security, and protection of sacred sites, while highlighting the important leadership of Indigenous women in this centuries-long struggle. As Long As Grass Grows giv... + Read More
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Series: Sabrina & Corina Stories Hardcover Kali Fajardo-Anstine 9780525511298 $35.00 FICTION Apr 02, 2019

A haunting debut story collection on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands, centered on Latinas of indigenous descent that shines a new light on the American West.Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Indigenous Latina characters and the land they inhabit. Set against the remarkable backdrop of Denver, Colorado—a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite—these women navigate the land the way they navigate their lives: with caution, grace, and quiet force.In “Sugar Babie... + Read More
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Series: The Science of the Sacred Bridging Global Indigenous Medicine Systems and Modern Scientific Principles Paperback Nicole Redvers N.D. 9781623173364 $25.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Mar 26, 2019

Indigenous naturopathic doctor Nicole Redvers pairs evidence-based research with traditional healing modalities, addressing modern health problems and medical processesModern medical science has finally caught up to what traditional healing systems have known for centuries. Many traditional healing techniques and medicines are often assumed to be archaic, outdated, or unscientific compared to modern Western medicine. Nicole Redvers, a naturopathic physician and member of the Deninu K'ue First Nation, analyzes modern Western medical practices us... + Read More
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Series: Our History Is the Future Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance Hardcover Nick Estes 9781786636720 $35.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 05, 2019

How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life”In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century. Water Protectors knew this battle for native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that, even after the encampment was gone, their anticolonial struggle would continue. In Our History Is the Fu... + Read More
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Series: An Arliss Cutter Novel Open Carry An Action Packed US Marshal Suspense Novel Hardcover Marc Cameron 9781496721723 $35.00 FICTION Feb 26, 2019

New York Times Bestselling Author of Field of Fire and Tom Clancy Power and Empire and Tom Clancy Oath of Office“Cameron’s books are riveting page-turners.” —Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling author Law enforcement veteran Marc Cameron brings an explosive authenticity to this powerful new U.S. Marshal series. Arliss Cutter is a hero for our times. And his hunt for justice cuts straight to the bone. . . . U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter is a born tracker. Raised in the Florida swamplands, he honed his skills in the military, fought in ... + Read More
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Series: Disappointment River Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage Paperback Brian Castner 9780771023972 $22.95 HISTORY Feb 05, 2019

In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie travelled the 1,125 miles of the immense river in Canada that now bears his name in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. In 2016, acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie’s route by canoe in a grueling journey over 200 years later.Disappointment River is a historical narrative and travel memoir that transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration, to a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness—a wilderness currently in the process of profound alteration by the com... + Read More
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Series: The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee Native America from 1890 to the Present Hardcover David Treuer 9781594633157 $37.00 HISTORY Jan 22, 2019

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCEA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a best book of 2019 by The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, NPR, Hudson Booksellers, The New York Public Library, The Dallas Morning News, and Library Journal."Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another." - NPR"An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait... Treuer's powerful book suggests the need for soul-searching about the meanings of American history and the stories we tel... + Read More
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Series: Starlight Tour The Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild Paperback Susanne Reber 9780735277502 $22.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 15, 2019

A teen's suspicious death, a shocking police cover-up and a mother's search for truth: this landmark investigation into justice and Canada's Indigenous people is re-issued and updated here for the first time in over a decade. In 1990, on a brutally cold night, 17-year-old Neil Stonechild disappeared from downtown Saskatoon, last seen in police custody. His frozen body was found three days later in a field outside town. Though his mother pressed for answers, a cursory investigation pinned the blame on the teen himself, dead by alcohol and mi... + Read More
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Series: Go Show the World A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes Hardcover Wab Kinew 9780735262928 $21.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 9 Sep 11, 2018

"We are a people who matter." Inspired by President Barack Obama's Of Thee I Sing, Go Show the World is a tribute to historic and modern-day Indigenous heroes, featuring important figures such as Tecumseh, Sacagawea and former NASA astronaut John Herrington.Celebrating the stories of Indigenous people throughout time, Wab Kinew has created a powerful rap song, the lyrics of which are the basis for the text in this beautiful picture book, illustrated by the acclaimed Joe Morse. Including figures such as Crazy Horse, Net-no-kwa, former NASA astro... + Read More
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Series: We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga Hardcover Traci Sorell 9781580897723 $21.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Sep 04, 2018

2019 Sibert Honor Book2019 Orbis Pictus Honor BookNPR’s Guide To 2018’s Great Reads2018 Book Launch Award (SCBWI)Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2018School Library Journal Best Books of 20182018 JLG selection2019 Reading the West Picture Book AwardThe Cherokee community is grateful for blessings and challenges that each season brings. This is modern Native American life as told by an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation.The word otsaliheliga (oh-jah-LEE-hay-lee-gah) is used by members of the Cherokee Nation to express gratitude. Beginning in th... + Read More
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Series: Scalped Book Three Paperback Jason Aaron 9781401281564 $33.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Aug 21, 2018

Against all odds, undercover FBI agent Dash Bad Horse has managed to keep his cover intact while gaining the trust of Lincoln Red Crow, the man whose criminal empire he's been tasked with bringing down. But like everything on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation, the road has been dirty and dangerous, with death always just a slip of the tongue away. Tough as he is, Dash is starting to buckle under the pressure -- and after the brutal murder of his mother, the job has finally pushed him over a line he never intended to cross.Now, just when he ne... + Read More
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Series: Native American Wisdom A Spiritual Tradition at One With Nature Hardcover Alan Jacobs 9781786781390 $16.95 HISTORY May 29, 2018

A wonderful and inspiring collection of eloquent prose, beautiful poetry and ancestral wisdom from Chiefs, Medicine Men and ordinary members of many Native American tribes.Although there are major differences in the lifestyles of the numerous Native American nations, they share fundamental beliefs. The spiritual wisdom of these people is based on a love and reverence for Nature, a belief in a Supreme Being and a spirit world that interacts with human activity.Organized in alphabetical order and grouped around the main Native American Nations fr... + Read More
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Series: Do All Indians Live in Tipis? Second Edition Questions and Answers from the National Museum of the American Indian Paperback NMAI 9781588346193 $18.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 10 Apr 10, 2018

How much do you really know about totem poles, tipis, and Tonto? There are hundreds of Native tribes in the Americas, and there may be thousands of misconceptions about Native customs, culture, and history. In this illustrated guide, experts from Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian debunk common myths and answer frequently asked questions about Native Americans past and present. Readers will discover the truth about everything from kachina dolls to casinos, with answers to nearly 100 questions, including: Did Indians really sel... + Read More