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To Shape a Dragon's Breath
by Moniquill Blackgoose
Revered as a Nampeshiweisit, a person in a unique relationship with a dragon, by her people, 15-year-old Indigenous girl Anequs, at odds with the“approved” way of doing things, is forced by Anglish conquerors to attend a proper dragon school– and if she cannot succeed there, her dragon will be killed.
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Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
by Cherie Dimaline
To save her father's job at the crematorium and the only home she's ever known, Winifred and her con-artist cousin start offering ghost tours until Winifred meets an actual ghost who causes her to question everything she believes about life, love and death.
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The Lost Journals of Sacajewea
by Debra Magpie Earling
Stolen from her village and then gambled away to a French Canadian trapper and trader, Sacajewea, determined to survive and triumph, crosses a vast and brutal terrain with her newborn son, the white man who owns her and a company of men who wish to conquer the world she loves.
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A Song Over Miskwaa Rapids
by Linda LeGarde Grover
Margie Robineau, fighting for her family's long-held allotment land, uncovers events connected to a long-ago escape plan, and the burial--at once figurative and painfully real--of not one crime but two. While Margie pieces the facts together, Dale Ann is confronted by her own tightly held secrets and the truth that the long ago and the now are all indelibly linked, no matter how much we try to forget.
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Weyward
by Emilia Hart
Told over five centuries through three connected women, this riveting novel follows Kate, in 2019, as she seeks refuge in Weyward Cottage; Altha, in 1619, as she uses her powers to maintain her freedom; and Violet, in 1942, as she searches for the truth about her mother's death.
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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
by Shane Hawk
Celebrating Indigenous peoples' survival and imagination, these twenty-seven spinetingling stories from best-selling and award-winning authors introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, intricate family legacies, desperate deeds and unsettling acts of revenge.
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Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare: Stories
by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
A short story collection follows contemporary native Hawaiian and Japanese women through tales including an encounter with a wild pig on a haunted highway and an elderly widow who sees her dead lover in a giant flower.
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Thunder Song: Essays
by Sasha taqwéseblu LaPointe
Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and conscientious honesty.
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Blood Sisters
by Vanessa Lillie
Returning to her Oklahoma hometown when her sister goes missing, an archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Syd Walker, digs into the case, uncovering a string of missing Indigenous women cases going back decades and must expose a darkness in the town that no one wants to face.
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Wandering Stars
by Tommy Orange
Traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Red Feather's shooting in There There.
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