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Series
Home to Blessing volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When she is called home unexpectedly to help in a family medical emergency, physician Astrid Bjorklund learns of a deadly measles outbreak on the nearby Indian reservation. She immediately senses the Spirit tugging her to help the Indians and wonders if her "mission field" is not so far away as she had imagined. But if she follows God's call, will love pass her by?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
While appraising the estate of a New Hampshire family descended from a North Dakota Indian agent, Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan. And so begins an illuminating journey both backward and forward in time, following the strange passage of a powerful yet delicate instrument, and revealing the extraordinary lives it has touched and defined. Compelling and unforgettable, [the...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire has more on his mind than cowboys and criminals. His daughter, Cady, is getting married. Walt and his old friend Henry Standing Bear are the de facto wedding planners, and fear Cady's wrath when the locale arrangements go up in smoke two weeks before the event. But their expedition to find a new site on the Cheyenne Reservation ends in horror as they witness a young Crow woman plummeting from Painted Warrior's cliffs....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
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English
Description
Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact--a reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe's been hired to find a missing biil, a traditional dress that had been donated to the Navajo Nation. His investigation takes a sinister turn when the leading suspect dies under mysterious circumstances and Leaphorn himself receives anonymous warnings to beware--witchcraft...
Author
Series
Willamette brides volume 3
Language
English
Description
"After years of schooling on the East Coast, Constance Browning returns to Oregon and the reservation where she grew up with her missionary parents. She is accompanied by Thomas Lowell, her best friend and colleague, and together they embark on a project to catalogue the native peoples of Oregon for the Bureau of American Ethnology. But Connie and Tom have another purpose--to prove her parents are not involved in a secret conspiracy to goad the oppressed...
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Language
English
Description
Novelist David Treuer examines Native American reservation life--past and present--illuminating misunderstood contemporary issues of sovereignty, treaty rights, and natural-resource conservation while also exploring crime and poverty, casinos and wealth, and the preservation of native language and culture.
10) Resolution
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In an abandoned cabin on the edge of an Indian reservation, Mike stages a risky intervention to force his friend Chris off meth and into rehab. But what begins as an attempt to save his friend's life takes an unexpected turn when ominous threats start appearing around the house and they realize that Chris's addictions are the least of their worries.
11) Strong cold dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Texas Ranger, Caitlin Strong fights a new enemy, an ISIS group who is interested in a devastating weapon on Texas soil. The oil drilling on an Indian reservation is steeped in mystery and controversy and a secret from the past may trigger an Armageddon from the canyonlands.
The terrorist organization ISIS is after a deadly toxin that could be the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. There is a race for the toxin because it also holds the potential...
12) Yellow Earth
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When rich layers of shale oil are discovered beneath the town of Yellow Earth, all hell breaks loose. Locals, oil workers, service workers, politicians, law enforcement, and get-rich-quick opportunists--along with an earnest wildlife biologist--commingle and collide as the population of the town triples overnight. Harleigh Killdeer, chairman of the tribal business council of neighboring Three Nations reservation, wants to increase economic opportunity...
14) The round house
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, fourteen-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person who destroyed his family.
15) A heart for home
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Series
Language
English
Description
Astrid Bjorklund is on the Red Bud Indian Reservation in South Dakota trying to stop a horrific epidemic. The elders are suspicious of her, but when some of their people begin to recover, they allow Astrid to continue caring for the sick. Upon returning to Blessing, she learns that the man she thought she loved cannot accept that God has called her to be a doctor. Heartbroken, Astrid fears she may have to give up her dream of marriage and family.
Author
Series
McGill-Queen's native and northern volume 3
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
17) Wind River
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Publisher
High-Lonesome Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
John Clum lived a colorful life. He was in charge of the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona (1874-1877), dealing with such individuals as Geronimo, Victorio, etc. He founded the Tombstone Epitaph newspaper and was mayor of Tombstone, Arizona in 1880. He supported Wyatt Earp, Virgil Earp, and Morgan Earp as defenders of the law. He also worked with the Southern Pacific Railroad.
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