 | Indian Killer
Publication Date: July 1, 2008“Part thriller, part magical realism, and part social commentary, Indian Killer . . . lingers long past the final page.”—Seattle WeeklyA national best seller, Indian Killer is arguably Sherman Alexie’s most controversial book to date—a gritty, racially charged literary thriller that, over a decade after its first publication, remains an electrifying tale of alienation and justice. A serial murderer called the Indian Killer is terrorizing Seattle, hunting, scalping, and slaughtering white men. Motivated by rage and seeking retribution...
 |  | Manitous: The Spiritual World Of The Ojibway (Native Voices)
Publication Date: September 15, 2001| Series: Native Voices A collection of legends and spiritual teachings that depict the mysterious manitous, mystical beings who are divine and essential forces in the spiritual life of the Ojibway.From the rich oral culture of his own Ojibway Indian heritage, Basil Johnston presents a collection of legends and tales depicting manitous, mystical beings who are divine and essential forces in the spiritual life of his people.In this collection, the first by a Native American scholar, these lively, sometimes earthy stories teach about manitous who lived in hu...
|  | Demons: A Novel in Three Parts (Vintage Classics)
Release Date: August 1, 1995| Series: Vintage Classics Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia. ...
|  | Winter in the Blood (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: July 29, 2008| Series: Penguin Classics Two contemporary classics from a major writer of the Native American renaissance During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel, Winter in the Blood, is one of his most enduring works. The narrator of this beautiful, often disquieting novel is a young Native American man living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana. Sensitive and self-destructive, he searches for something that will bind him to the lands of his ancestors but is haunted by personal tragedy, the dissolution of his on...
|  | Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story
Publication Date: September 1, 2007Miko Kings is set in Indian Territory's queen city, Ada, Oklahoma, during the baseball fever of 1907, but moves back and forth from 1969, during the Vietnam War, to present-day Ada. The story focuses on an Indian baseball team but brings a new understanding of the term "America's favorite pastime." For tribes in Indian Territory, baseball was an extension of a sport they'd been playing for centuries before their forced removal to Indian Territory.The story centers on the lives of Hope Little Leader, a Choctaw pitcher for the Miko Kings...
|  | Native American Literature: An Anthology
Publication Date: November 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0844259853 | ISBN-13: 978-0844259857| Edition: 1 This treasury of literature by Native American authors allows students to listen to the voices from America's first and oldest literature. More than fifty tribes from the U.S. and Canada are represented, giving readers opportunities to explore the diversity of authors' experiences through poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including the oral tradition. Two maps provide geographical context for the readings, one showing tribal locations and the other showing the Trail of Tears. ...
|  | The Double Life of Pocahontas
Release Date: March 1, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up In a story that is as gripping as it is historical, Jean Fritz reveals the true life of Pocahontas. Though at first permitted to move freely between the Indian and the white worlds, Pocahontas was eventually torn between her new life and the culture that shaped her. ...
|  | The Surrounded (Zia Book) (A Zia Book)
Publication Date: February 1, 1978| Series: A Zia Book As The Surroundedopens, Archilde León has just returned from the big city to his father's ranch on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana. The story that unfolds captures the intense and varied conflict that already characterized reservation life in 1936, when this remarkable novel was first published. Educated at a federal Indian boarding school, Archilde is torn not only between white and Indian cultures but also between love for his Spanish father and his Indian mother, who in her old age is rejecting white culture and reli...
|  | Almanac of the Dead
Release Date: November 1, 1992In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale. The acclaimed author of Ceremony has undertaken a weaving of ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the moral history of the Americas, told from the point of view of the conquered, not the conquerors. Author readings. ...
|  | Inca Myths (Legendary Past)
Publication Date: 1999| Series: Legendary PastInca Myths begins with an introduction to the land and people of the Andes and reviews the sources of our current knowledge of Inca mythology. Gary Urton then recounts various creation myths, including a selection from various ethnic groups and regions around the empire. Finally, he draws upon his extensive knowledge of the history and ethnography of the Incas to illuminate the nature and relationships of myth and history.The contents include:Introduction Creation myths Origin myths of the founding of the Inca empire Myths of the works and ...
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