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OverDrive eBooks November 2020 |
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"Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget." -- Paula Gunn Allen |
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The Woman Who Owned the Shadows
by Paula Gunn Allen
Abandoned by her husband and unable to take care of her children, Ephanie Atencio leaves New Mexico for San Francisco to make a new start.
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The Only Good Indians : a Novel
by Stephen Graham Jones
Four American Indian men, who shared a disturbing event during their youth, are hunted down years later by an entity bent on revenge that forces them to revisit the culture and traditions they left behind.
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Moon of the Crusted Snow : a Novel
by Waubgeshig Rice
When a small Ojibwa community in the far north loses power at the beginning of the winter, residents do not realize it is because society in the south is failing, and when people arrive from the south, harsh conditions take their toll.
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Winter Counts : a Novel
by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
A vigilante enforcer on South Dakota's Rosebud Indian Reservation enlists the help of an ex to investigate the activities of an expanding drug cartel, while a new tribal council initiative raises controversial questions. A first novel.
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Great Short Stories By Contemporary Native American Writers
by Bob Blaisdell
This new anthology of short fiction by Native Americans features a wide range of contemporary writers. It includes stories dating from the early twentieth century by Pauline Johnson, daughter of a Mohawk chief, whose works helped define Canadian literature; Zitkala-Sa, a Sioux writer whose books were among the first to bring Native American stories to wider recognition; John M. Oskison, whose Cherokee ancestry informed his tales of the cultural clash faced by children of mixed marriages; and D'Arcy McNickle, Cree activist and anthropologist.
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The Night Watchman : a Novel
by Louise Erdrich
A historical novel based on the life of the National Book Award-winning author’s grandfather traces the experiences of a Chippewa Council night watchman in mid-19th-century rural North Dakota who fights Congress to enforce Native American treaty rights.
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Falling Upwards : How We Took to the Air
by Richard Holmes
Documents the experiences of the enigmatic pioneers of human flight including Sophie Blanchard, John Wise and Felix Nadar to offer insight into the character qualities that inspired their ambitions and the ways in which their achievements have shaped culture, technology and meteorology. By the award-winning author of The Age of Wonder.
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