NATIVE AMERICAN FICTION
 
 
Caleb's Crossing

by Geraldine Brooks

Forging a deep friendship with a Wampanoag chieftain's son on the Great Harbor settlement where her minister father is working to convert the tribe, Bethia follows his subsequent ivy league education and efforts to bridge cultures among the colonial elite. 
 
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Even as We Breathe

by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

"With World War II raging in Europe, the inn is the temporary home of Axis diplomats and their families, who are being held as prisoners of war. Soon, Cowney's refuge becomes a cage when the daughter of one of the residents goes missing and he finds himself accused of abduction and murder. 
Winter's Child
 
by Margaret Coel

Investigating the hit-and-run death of a lawyer hired by a Native American couple to help them adopt an abandoned child, Vicky and Father John unravel a disturbing connection between the child, the lawyer's death, a missing Arapaho wanted for robbery and a dark Wind River secret.
The Night Watchman

by Louise Erdrich

A historical novel based on the life of the 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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One Thousand White Women : the Journals of May Dodd

by Jim Fergus

Based on actual historical events, this novel follows the indomitable May Dodd as she travels to the Cheyenne, becomes the bride of Little Wolf, chief of that tribe, and struggles with living in and being loyal to two different worlds.
 
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Dark Reservations

by John Fortunato

Determined to save his failing career, Bureau of Indian Affairs Special Agent Joe Evers partners with Navajo Tribal Officer Randall Bluehorse to solve a mysterious cold case involving black-market trade in Native-American artifacts and political corruption.
 
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Quiet Until the Thaw

by Alexandra Fuller

Follows the experiences of two Native American cousins who become estranged by their different approaches to fighting cultural injustice and whose lives are disrupted by prison, parenthood and violence.
 
 
Brown Dog : Novellas

by Jim Harrison

An anthology of all of the Brown Dog novellas includes a previously unpublished story and follows the down-on-his-luck Michigan Native American's misadventures with an overindulgent lifestyle, his two adopted children and an ersatz activist who steals his bearskin.
 
 
The Removed

by Brandon Hobson

A Cherokee family takes in a remarkable foster child on the eve of the Cherokee National Holiday and anniversary of a loved one’s death.
 
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To the Bright Edge of the world

by Eowyn Ivey

A military man leading a winter 1885 expedition into the newly acquired Alaska territory to gather information about potentially dangerous native tribes has his perspective changed by a mysterious Eyak guide and a Native American woman who joins the quest.
 
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News of the World

by Paulette Jiles

A live news reader traveling the antebellum south is offered $50 to bring an orphan girl, who was kidnapped and raised by Kiowa raiders, back to her family in San Antonio.
 
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The Only Good Indians

by Stephen Graham Jones

A novel that blends classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. 
 
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This Tender Land

by William Kent Krueger

Fleeing the Depression-era school for Native American children who have been taken from their parents, four orphans share a summer marked by struggling farmers, faith healers and lost souls.
 
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Nail's Crossing
 
by Kris Lackey

Tribal Lighthorse policeman Bill Maytubby and county deputy Hannah Bond discover a body in a remote area of Oklahoma, and set out to investigate her murder and recreate her last days. Maytubby  and Bond eventually reunite in the Chickasaw Nation for a final face-off at Nail's Crossing.
 
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Wolves of Eden
 
by Kevin McCarthy

While a post-Civil War military lieutenant and his long-suffering orderly navigate violence in their search for a band of killers, two war-weary Irish immigrants are swept into a coalition of Native American tribes fighting American expansion.
 
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There There

by Tommy Orange

A novel -- which grapples with the complex history of Native Americans; with an inheritance of profound spirituality; and with a plague of addiction, abuse and suicide -- follows 12 characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow.
 
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Medicine Walk

by Richard Wagamese

Struggling with mixed feelings while helping his estranged father undertake a difficult mountain backcountry journey to die, Franklin Starlight learns about his father's difficult struggles with childhood poverty and war-inflicted PTSD.
 
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The Sacred White Turkey

by Frances Washburn

A Lakota medicine woman and her teenage granddaughter tell the events of an Easter that begins with a stark white turkey arriving on their doorstep.
Winter Counts

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. 
 
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The Seed Keeper
 
by Diane Wilson

Uprooted from their land, the seeds Dakhóta women carried with them were not just a source of sustenance, but their link to the past and hope for the future, a symbol of their profound bond with the Earth. They provide a powerful symbol for Rosalie's rediscovery of her lost family and the ways of "the old ones." A thoughtful, moving meditation on connections to the past and the land that humans abandon at their peril.