Set on an Indian reservation just after World War II, a war-weary Navajo young man named Tayo returns home from service. Tayo was a prisoner of the Japanese, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the…
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CRRL Picks: Books by American Indian Authors
From memoirs to horror novels, dive into one of these books written by an American Indian author.
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- From the metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, "A Council of Dolls" is the story of three women, told in part through the stories of the dolls they carried.
- A memoir from the 2019 Poet Laureate describes her youth with an abusive stepfather, becoming a single teen mom, and how she struggled to finally find inner peace and her creative voice.
- Traumatized by their years at a remote, church-run residential school, Native teens Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie cling to each other when they're finally released and find themselves in East Vancouver, trying to figure out what to do next in…
- A beautiful elegy for the author's lost parents that explores trauma and family and gives a fresh perspective on memory and how much of it we can really trust.
- Jade Daniels lives in Proofrock, a town nestled deep in the mountains of Idaho alongside Indian Lake and the infamous Camp Blood, where a massacre happened fifty years earlier. Now the same killer seems to be plaguing the town again, and Jade knows,…
Never Whistle at Night
An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Ghosts, monsters and things that go bump in the night abound in this spooktacular collection of scary stories from Indigenous authors.- These searing, devastating, and often darkly funny stories introduce us to a community of Native people living on a Penobscot reservation in Maine.
- In the 15 years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. With the family's annual bonfire approaching - marking both the Cherokee National Holiday and Ray-Ray's death -…
- This is the multi-generational story of Rosalie Iron Wing, who grew up immersed in the stories of her Dakhóta people, until her father died, and she was sent to live with a foster family. Decades later, Rosalie is a widow and mother who returns to…
- Anna Horn is trying to outrun a lot of things in her life - bullies, entitled guests at the reservation's casino, and the ancient entity that's following her around. But then strange things begin occurring and girls begin to go missing -- including…
- Kit, a young Cherokee girl, gets torn away from what's left of her family and sent to a Christian boarding school just when she's most vulnerable. There, she suffers horrifying abuse but finds solace in her journal, where she records what happens to…
- Twelve narrators converge at the Big Oakland Powwow as the story speeds toward its shocking conclusion. A multi-generational, relentlessly paced story woven into the history of a nation and its people.
- When Kari James' cousin finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to Kari's dead mother, it inadvertently calls up both her mother's ghost and a monstrous entity. Haunted, Kari must search for what happened to her mother all those years ago.
- Following a decade of abuse, addiction, PTSD, and heavy-duty drug treatment for a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, author Elissa Washuta felt drawn to the spirits and powers her dispossessed and discarded ancestors knew, while she undertook…
- After Luz's brother is run out of town by a violent white mob, she's left to navigate 1930s Denver by herself. But before long, she begins to see visions of her ancestors and their lives in the nearby Lost Territory, bearing witness to their…
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