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When a young engineer dies under suspicious circumstances, OSBI Detective Jack Hollander and Agent Betty Cash are drawn into a tangled web of corporate secrecy, tribal jurisdiction, and political ambition. As they navigate the overlapping authorities of the Chickasaw Lighthorse Police, state investigators, and federal courts, they uncover a mystery that stretches from the corridors of power to the quiet banks of the Canadian River.

Born with visions pressed against his chest like a second heart, Song walks along a road no other can see. Omens follow him, the scream of the panther from the ridge, the pale Indian Pipe rising in the dark soil, the red-banded Cecropia moth beating its wings against firelight. These are not accidents. These are messages. Song has been chosen to carry them. But every song casts a shadow. That shadow has a name: Cypian, the River Wolf.

Meet "Relic," the moonshining recluse of Canyonlands (Utah's red rock country) as he and a young lawyer flee con men and murderers through whitewater rapids, phobic-inducing caves, and ancient archaeological ruins of the pueblo people. Are there really dinosaur petroglyphs in Raptor Canyon?

Books 1-3 of the contemporary Native American amateur sleuth murder mystery series Spotted Pony Casino. Disabled veteran Dela Alvaro has investigation skills from her time in the service. She digs for the truth with help from her Umatilla friends and her connections with the FBI and Tribal Police to get justice for the victims.

The survival story of the Patawomeck Tribe of Virginia has been remembered within the tribe for generations, but the massacre of Patawomeck men and the enslavement of women and children by land hungry colonists in 1666 has been mostly unknown outside of the tribe until now. Author Lora Chilton, a member of the tribe through the lineage of her father, has created this powerful fictional retelling.

With promises of new jobs and millions in revenue, the Wind River Reservation agrees to use their land for a nuclear storage site. But Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden is not willing to let this happen. And with help from Father John O'Malley, she sets out to protect the land and her people. But someone involved wants to keep Vicky—and anyone else who stands in the way—quiet. When a man is murdered and two attempts are made on Vicky's life, she knows the stakes have been raised.

Father John O'Malley comes across the corpse lying in a ditch beside the highway. When he returns with the police, it is gone. The Arapahos of the Wind River Reservation speak of Ghost Walkers—tormented souls caught between the earth and the spirit world, who are capable of anything. Then, within days, a young man disappears from the Reservation without a trace. A young woman is found brutally murdered. And as Father John and Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden investigate these crimes, someone—or something—begins following them.

In the late 1800s, Cheyenne, a young Indigenous girl, is taken from her family and placed in a government-run residential school. There, she endures harsh punishments, cultural erasure, and profound loss. Despite the cruelty, she finds strength in her heritage-and in a small, locked box she hides beneath the schoolhouse floor, filled with symbols of her identity and hope. Decades later, in 2008, Kyra a curious and imaginative girl, stumbles upon that very box while staying at the same old schoolhouse.

In 1817, explorers Spix and Martius returned from their three-year voyage in Brazil with not only an extensive account of their journey, but also with an Indigenous boy and girl, Iñe-e and Juri. Kidnapped from rival tribes as part of the colonialist trend of collecting "living specimens" on scientific expeditions, the two tragically perished shortly after arriving in Europe. This lyrically rich novel takes their perspective to illuminate their harrowing journey.

Kutalaani: From the Stars is a stylish unique recording in radio-play style. It reveals the amazing life of Gerry Moses Martin a blind indigenous man who believes that his ancestors are talking to him through iconic Hollywood movies. This audio features traditional indigenous elders singing ancient stories from country (Australia) as well as contemporary original indigenous music.

Blood to Rubies is the towering saga of injustice, love, and redemption. A young frontier photographer goes West to escape the Civil War draft and settles in the Bitterroot Mountains, ancestral home of the Nez Perce Indians. He becomes obsessed with a young Irish woman he spies swimming nude in a mountain lake, an obsession that captivates him from afar. He comes to admire the area Nez Perce and photographs the young Chief Joseph and a woman warrior named Flying Horse (based on a real woman never written about).

When Mae Shepherd’s quiet life on her family farm is set ablaze (literally), she’s left with nothing but the clothes on her back, her old journal, and a burning need for justice. Rumors of lost treasure and ancient Apache warnings swirl through the Superstition Mountains, drawing outlaws, surveyors, and a silver-tongued railroad tycoon hungry to carve steel through sacred land.

When six-year-old Dolores Hummingbird arrives at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, she has a difficult time adjusting. She has never before spent one night away from her parents. Renamed “Cries in her Sleep” by the girls in her dorm, Dolores eventually finds companionship and love in the person of an orphaned Irish girl called “Sky Eyes.” Both girls are exemplary artist. After graduation, they live and paint in Greenwich Village and receive instruction from Robert Henri of the Ashcan School. But Paris is calling them from across the ocean.

From New York Times bestselling author Margaret Coel comes a tightly crafted mystery that blends Native American culture and history with contemporary issues and fast-paced action! When the Arapaho tribal chairman is found murdered in his tepee at the Ethete powwow, the evidence points to the chairman's nephew, Anthony Castle. But Father John O'Malley, pastor of St. Francis Mission, and Vicky Holden, the Arapaho lawyer, do not believe the young man capable of murder. Together they set out to find the real murderer and clear Anthony's name.

As she covers the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes' claim for their ancestral lands, Catherine becomes the target of a relentless killer. With her commitment to uncovering the truth unwavering, she risks everything to expose the dark secrets hidden beneath the surface. Gripping and atmospheric, Coel takes listeners on a thrilling journey into a web of deception, where the pursuit of justice becomes a matter of life and death.

Using her dreams, Shandra helps locate the missing twins whom they take into their home as foster children. The hunt for the reason the parents were murdered becomes urgent when the children reveal they may have seen the killer.

In this followup to his hugely popular Midnight Storm Moonless Sky: Indigenous Horror Stories, Blackfoot storyteller Alex Soop plunges us again into enthralling tales that mix reality with dark terror. Within its stories, Whisper at Night and They Will Come reveals ancient theories of the paranormal, post apocalyptic scenarios, impossible wells of grief, and monstrous phobias. Soop scares the wits out of listeners, all the while uncovering overlooked social anxieties and racism affecting Indigenous Peoples across North America.

Philbert Bono and Buddy Red Bird are about to prove that the spirit of the great warriors is still alive and kicking. Their "war pony," a burned-out, rusty 1964 Buick LeSabre, has left a trail of dust from Montana's Lame Deer Reservation halfway down Interstate 25 as they take off to bail Buddy's sister out of jail. The basis for the great movie of the same name, this quiet debut novel, first published in 1979, has become a classic of Native American literature.

When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears, she becomes one more missing Native woman in Indian Country's long devastating history of loss. But she is also a daughter of the Mozhay Point Reservation in northern Minnesota, and the mother of Azure and Rain, ages three and four, and her absence haunts all the lives she has touched—and all the stories they tell in this novel.

Eine spirituelle Geschichte für grosse und kleine Menschen aus der Überlieferung der nordamerikanischen Indianer mit Luise Sievers und der Band Cochise. Als ich die Geschichte zum erstenmal hörte, war ich den Tränen nahe. Ich hatte längst nicht alles verstanden, aber ich hatte begriffen. Ich sah mich als kleinen Mäuserich, der ein Rauschen hörte, in der Schule, im Elternhaus, auf der Arbeit, in der Kneipe nicht an diesem penetranten Rauschen vorbeikam, das hinter jeder Ecke, hinter jedem Gespräch lauerte und deutlich machte: das kann nicht alles sein - da ist mehr.