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• 1666

  a Novel

  Chilton, Lora

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  "The survival story of the Patawomeck Tribe of Virginia has been remembered within the tribe for generations, but the massacre of Patawomeck men and the enslavement of women and children by land hungry colonists in 1666 has been mostly unknown…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Berry Pickers

  Peters, Amanda

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  "July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Braiding Sweetgrass

  Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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• The Crossing

  El Paso, the Southwest, and America's Forgotten Origin Story

  Parker, Richard (Journalist),

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• The Fairbanks Four

  Murder, Injustice, and the Birth of a Movement

  O'Donoghue, Brian,

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• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

  Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1939-

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• Language City

  the Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

  Perlin, Ross

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• Moon of the Turning Leaves

  a Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-

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  "For the past twelve years, a community of Anishinaabe people have made the Northern Ontario bush their home in the wake of the power failure that brought about societal collapse. Since then they have survived and thrived the way their ancestors…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mother

  RedCherries, m. s

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• My Life

  Growing Up Native in America

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• Nothing More of This Land

  Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity

  Lee, Joseph, 1992-

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• The Serviceberry

  Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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• Sex, Lies and Sensibility

  Payne, Nikki, 1982-

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  "Two sisters roll up their sleeves to run a dilapidated beach-town inn but must learn to work with the current tenants in this deliciously spicy reimagining of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility by Nikki Payne. Nora needs a reinvention fast. But…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To Save the Man

  a Novel

  Sayles, John, 1950-

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  "In September of 1890, the academic year begins at the Carlisle School, a co-educational military-style boarding school for Indians in Pennsylvania, founded and run by Captain Richard Henry Pratt. Pratt considers himself a champion of Native…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seeing Red

  Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America

  Witgen, Michael John,

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• The Truth According to Ember

  Nava, Danica

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  "A Native American woman who can't catch a break serves up a little white lie that snowballs into much more in this witty and entertaining rom-com by debut author Danica Nava. Ember Lee Cardinal has not always been a liar, not for anything that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Waiting for the Long Night Moon

  Stories

  Peters, Amanda

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  Stories of Indigenous experiences across time, from early European contact to modern water-rights activism, depicting resilience through characters like a residential school survivor, a water protector, and a young dancer, all revealing strength and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Washita Love Child

  the Rise of Indigenous Rock Star Jesse Ed Davis

  Miller, Douglas K., 1976-

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• We Will Be Jaguars

  a Memoir of My People

  Nenquimo, Nemonte, 1985-

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• Where They Last Saw Her

  a Novel

  Rendon, Marcie R.

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  "From the award-winning author of the Cash Blackbear series, a harrowing novel of a Native American woman who learns of the disappearance of one of her own and decides enough is enough... All they heard was her scream. Quill has lived on the Red…Read moreRead more of this annotation