 | 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...
 |  | 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...
|  | The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: May 5, 2009| Series: P.S.For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. To further complicate his quiet existence, a troubled colleague comes to the reservation to investigate the life of the perplexing, possibly false saint Sister Leopolda. Father Damien alone knows the strange truth of Leopolda's piety and is faced with the most difficult decision...
|  | American Indian Myths and Legends (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library)
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|  | 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...
|  | Fools Crow (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: October 25, 2011| Series: Penguin Classics The 25th-anniversary edition of "a novel that in the sweep andinevitability of its events...is a major contribution to Native Americanliterature." (Wallace Stegner) In the Two Medicine Territory of Montana, the Lone Eaters, a smallband of Blackfeet Indians, are living their immemorial life. The menhunt and mount the occasional horse-taking raid or war party againstthe enemy Crow. The women tan the hides, sew the beadwork, and raisethe children. But the year is 1870, and the whites are moving intotheir land. Fools Crow, a youn...
|  | Ten Little Indians
Publication Date: March 17, 2004Sherman Alexie is one of our most acclaimed and popular writers today. With Ten Little Indians, he offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heartrending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love.In Alexie’s first story, “The Search Engine,” Corliss is a rugged and resourceful student who finds in books the magic she w...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Shell Shaker
Publication Date: September 1, 2001"A dangerous enemy has arrived on our shores with weapons of fire . . . He's a very different kind of Wasano, bloodsucker, he always hungers for more".—from Shell ShakerThe action in this debut novel alternates between 1738, as a Choctaw family prepares for war against the English, and the 1990s, as their Oklahoma descendants, the Billys, fight a Mafia takeover of the tribe's casino. In trouble with the law and in the fight of their lives, the Billy women must find a way, as their ancestors did, to join forces against a devious foe. Humor, toughness, ...
|  | Flight: A Novel
Publication Date: April 17, 2007The best-selling author of multiple award-winning books returns with his first novel in ten years, a powerful, fast and timely story of a troubled foster teenager — a boy who is not a “legal” Indian because he was never claimed by his father — who learns the true meaning of terror. About to commit a devastating act, the young man finds himself shot back through time on a shocking sojourn through moments of violence in American history. He resurfaces in the form of an FBI agent during the civil rights era, inhabits the body of an ...
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