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Series
Home to blessing novels volume 2
Language
English
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When she's 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
Series
Patrick Flint volume 4
Publisher
SkipJack Publishing
Language
English
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Description
Patrick Flint meets The River Wild When his son is critically injured on a river trip, Patrick Flint finds himself in a race against time and a gang of outlaws who are determined the Flints won't make it out of Wyoming's Gros Ventre Wilderness alive.
3) Snake oil
Author
Series
Patrick Flint volume 2
Publisher
SkipJack Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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When Patrick Flint goes after a murderer on the Wind River Reservation, he puts everything, and everyone, he cares about on the line. Patrick Flint feels a calling to volunteer at the impoverished Indian Health Services clinic on the Wind River Reservation that he can't completely explain. His wife Susanne supports this, usually, but her family is coming for their first Wyoming visit. Twelve-year-old Perry is stir crazy and looking for trouble,...
Author
Series
Home to blessing novels volume 3
Language
English
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Astrid Bjorklund is on the Red Bud Indian Reservation in South Dakota trying to stop the horrific epidemic that is ravaging the tribe. The elders are suspicious of her, but when they see some of their people beginning to recover, they allow Astrid to continue caring for the sick and to train others to help. She is overwhelmed by this need so close to home and wonders if this is the mission field God has planned for her. Joshua Landsverk wants to repair...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude....
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xi, 358 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California...
Author
Language
English
Description
A story of suspect miracles, tests of faith, and the corrosive and redemptive power of secrecy. Over the years, Father Damian has seen the reservation through its most severe crises, yet he is more than a heroic priest. He has lived with and served the Ojibwa people as a man of the cloth, and also as a woman. However, where does fact end and reality begin? NPR sponsorships. Deals with miracles, crises of faith, struggles with good & evil, temptation,...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
565 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1913 Woodrow Russell Hart relates how at age fifteen in 1863 he came with older brother Rufus from Washington, D.C., to the violent goldfields of what would become Montana Territory. Woodie discovers in the boomtowns of Virginia City, Bannack, and Hell Gate that the territory is overrun with road agents looking to get rich quick and vigilantes wanting to stop them cold using makeshift gallows. Woodie must deal with romantic rejections, trying...
10) Resolution
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Author
Series
Clyde Barr novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Clyde Barr, the drifter with lethal skills, is alone again, wandering the highways of the American West in search of something to believe in. As summer turns to autumn, he trades his car for a horse and heads for the mountains, planning to clear his head and regain his edge with some hunting. But when he runs across an elderly sick man — a Ute Indian from a nearby reservation — Clyde’s dream of solitude is quickly dashed. On the reservation,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
An Indigenous teen girl is caught between two worlds, both real and virtual, in the YA fantasy debut from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew. Perfect for fans of Ready Player One and the Otherworld series.
In the real world, Bugz is a shy and self-conscious Indigenous teen who faces the stresses of teenage angst and life on the Rez. But in the virtual world, her alter ego is not just confident but dominant in a massively multiplayer...
In the real world, Bugz is a shy and self-conscious Indigenous teen who faces the stresses of teenage angst and life on the Rez. But in the virtual world, her alter ego is not just confident but dominant in a massively multiplayer...
14) A Zuni atlas
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c1985
Physical Desc
1 atlas (xiii, 154 p.) ill., maps 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on the information they amassed for their federal Zuni land claim testimony, archaeologist Ferguson and historian Hart have compiled this atlas of 44 land use topics, each with a map and accompanying text. They include newly released locations of Zuni religious sites and shrines, which are cataloged in an appendix. Unique to Zuni history, the book joins The Navajo Atlas in this series. While the history is necessarily sketchy and depth is...
15) The bingo palace
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
274 pages, 18 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"At the crossroads of his life, Lipsha Morrissey is summoned by his grandmother to return to the reservation. There, he falls in love for the very first time--with the beautiful Shawnee Ray, who's already considering a marriage proposal from Lipsha's wealthy entrepreneurial boss, Lyman Lamartine. But when all efforts to win Shawnee's affections go hopelessly awry, Lipsha seeks out his great-grandmother for a magical solution to his romantic dilemma--on...
Author
Series
Spirit Road mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The body of local Native American land developer Jason Red Cloud is found on the site for his new resort on the Pine Ridge Reservation. A war club is lodged in his skull-appearing as if someone may have performed a ritual at the crime scene. FBI Special Agent Manny Tanno arrives in Pine Ridge to find that not everything has changed since he left. His former rival, now in charge of the Tribal Police, is just as bitter as ever, and has no intention...
17) Yellow Earth
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 24 cm.
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. From casino dealers and geologists to Native activists and high school kids, everyone in the region is swept up in the unsparing wave of...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A searing, deeply moving literary memoir of poems and essays that reflect on the author's complicated feelings about his disadvantaged childhood on a Native American reservation with his siblings and alcoholic mother, from the critically acclaimed author of the 2007 semiautobiographical young-adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Family relationships are never simple. But Sherman Alexie's bond with his mother Lillian was more...
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Language
English
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While investigating a supposed suicide of a young Arapaho on the Wind River Reservation and a hit-and-run accident in Denver, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley discover that both of the deaths may have been murders and set out to expose the dark secrets over which someone is willing to kill.
Author
Series
Spirit Road mystery volume 5
Publisher
Encircle Publications
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nearly a century and a half ago, Oglala Lakota leader Crazy Horse was tragically killed in custody and buried. His parents whisked away his remains to a location known only to them, safe from marauding trophy seekers and thieves. His grave has never been found.
Apparently, until now...
Lakota FBI Agent Manny Tanno is called to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation once again. He uncovers a conspiracy to take over a local rancher's business, and the...
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