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41) Dirty Copper
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Dirty Copper, the prequel to Walking the Rez Road, tells the story of Luke Warmwater, an Anishinaabe soldier, as he returns to the Reservation after serving in Vietnam. Once again, Luke is torn between duty and morality as he becomes a deputy sheriff on the Rez and sees firsthand the war raging below the appearance of peace.
42) Merciless Mayhem
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Shawnee and Mayhem continue to wreak havoc on the Killzme Corporation-the largest animal trafficking ring in the country-by killing one poacher at a time. The stakes grow increasingly higher when the nefarious group retaliates by putting a bounty on their heads. Meanwhile, the traffickers set their sights on capturing Orca for profit and pleasure. With a ticking clock and no place left to hide, Shawnee and Mayhem alternate between undercover surveillance...
43) Shane
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Once upon a time, my life was good. I had a family, I had a girlfriend, and hopes for the future. That was long ago, but I remember it. A hazy dream of what could have been. That's gone now. I lost it all. Life fucked me over, and now I'm scared of my own damn shadow.
I'm training to be a tattoo artist, but I bet I'm not good enough. I have a roof over my head, but every morning I'm scared shitless that I'll find myself on the street again--or worse,...
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New ways of life often provide benefits while simultaneously inflicting pain. This tendency is especially true when indigenous, ethnic, and rural people face the impacts of the modern world. Polar Bear Inc. portrays these pressures through the depiction of a fictional indigenous community and the tensions and challenges occurring in the wake of social and economic transitions. By visiting a struggling and evolving community, the reader witnesses the...
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Le grand récit décolonial de la résurgence autochtone
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L'écrivaine et militante autochtone Leanne Betasamosake Simpson explore l'existence actuelle des peuples et collectivités autochtones, en particulier celle de sa propre nation nishnaabeg. Ses personnages s'efforcent de réconcilier leur désir de vivre une vie pleine de tendresse avec le combat qu'ils livrent quotidiennement pour survivre aux injustices passées et présentes causées...
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Traduit de l'anglais par Arianne Des Rochers et Natasha Kanapé Fontaine
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Dans ce deuxième recueil visionnaire, qui constitue la suite de Cartographie de l'amour décolonial (2018), Simpson déploie de nouveau le fragment littéraire comme outil d'intervention décoloniale. Son écriture à la fois poétique et provocante génère une réalité décolonisée qui résiste aux discours dominants et échappe aux catégorisations consacrées....
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Tommy Weaver wants to stay sober and that means steering clear of challenging situations, avoiding difficult people, and staying away from personal relationships. Unfortunately, he has a cousin unsuccessfully rehabbing in his spare room while Crooked Rock demands more than he can give, and in the midst of his growing troubles, the irresistible Elizabeth appears.
Elizabeth Lewis couldn't wait to finish college and get back to the security of her home...
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Through our own Indigenous stories we discover our roots. A collection of short fiction, non-fiction, and poetry by Indigenous writers from across Canada, plus original Indigenous artwork. This anthology contains the work of established authors such as the late Connie Fife, and up-and-coming Aboriginal authors to watch out for (according to CBC Books) Joanne Arnott, Michelle Sylliboy, and Dennis Saddleman as well as emerging writers from across Canada...
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L'épidémie de grippe asiatique des années 1950 atteint la Colombie-Britannique et ravage la communauté. Les Autochtones sont livrés à eux-mêmes et les médecins
blancs négligent de les soigner. La jeune Stacey, sa mère et les autres femmes du clan de Loup se serrent les coudes, enterrent leurs morts, à l'ombre de la prophétie de Corbeau: «Les grandes tempêtes façonnent la terre, font éclore la vie, débarrassent le monde de...
50) Toby and BearPaw
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Toby is twelve years old and lives at Fort Gibson, in the Indian Territory (what in present day is the State of Oklahoma). There are no boys at the fort his age, and he finds himself lonely for someone to spend time with. When a tragic event strikes his family, he finds himself spending more time alone in his grief.
One day, he unexpectedly meets an unlikely friend in Bearpaw. He has never known an Indian personally before, and many at the fort...
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A forgotten Haudenosaunee social song beams into the cosmos like a homing beacon for interstellar visitors. A computer learns to feel sadness and grief from the history of atrocities committed against First Nations. A young Native man discovers the secret to time travel in ancient petroglyphs. Drawing inspiration from science fiction legends like Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury, Drew Hayden Taylor frames classic science-fiction tropes...
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Summary of LaRose by Louise Erdrich | Includes Analysis Preview: LaRose by Louise Erdrich is a novel about two little boys who are torn from their families and the infinite sorrow that's left in their wake of their separations. As the repercussions of a tragic hunting accident unfold on a North Dakota reservation from 1999 to 2003, the narrative intermittently reaches back in time as far as 1839 to explore stories from the families' Ojibwe heritage....
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Michael Yazzie, generous and kind-hearted, is talked by his auntie into leaving the Navajo Reservation to look for his missing cousin Jon, who turns out to have been accused of murder.
In order to crack the mystery and preserve his life, Michael must create a simulation of the close-knit family he left behind, and soon his posse includes some surprising figures, among them the absent father he never knew.
54) Colter's Revenge
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It's November 1809 and Mountain man John Colter is heading back upriver to the Three Forks of the Missouri. The Blackfeet are there. He'll get his revenge.
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A Hollywood producer is determined on making a movie concerning a legend of the moon meant to stay hidden within the Native American nation. Ninety-eight year old, Chief Zantos vows to keep their secret sacred within his culture. Even if it means releasing a curse with hidden powers unknown to the white man.
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Amber treasured her Navajo heritage. Until now, she had never left her home on the reservation in the Four Corners. The only reason she was standing on this South Korean moonlit shore was to honor her father's last wishes. She had brought his ashes here to commemorate her Code-Talking grandfather. A man who had left for the Korean War and never returned home.
Shash Hayou had been lost in action along with his best friend, Charlie Atene.
But Charlie...
57) South Dakota
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1973, South Dakota.
The historic site of a massacre some 80 years before.
History repeats itself, they say. And before he was someone's father, he was a young man, a college student, and trying to find his own identity. Along with a few friends, this young man begins a journey into the unknown.
The town of Wounded Knee is at the end of the road, but that is not his final destination.
58) The Lost Years
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The Americas, 1534.
A young Navajo man goes on a vision quest to commune with the spirits and find out what his life path should be. Little does he know that his meeting with the Bear, his spirit guide, will change him for good and turn his life upside down. In fact, life has more years in store for him than he could have ever imagined...
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On a hot Sunday in August, the entire community of Little Blue, Nebraska, changed forever. Groups of Cheyenne, Sioux, and Arapaho Indians attacked and destroyed nearly every home and stagecoach station in Little Blue. People were murdered or taken, homes burned. Rebecca Walker made sure her little brothers were safely hidden away but had no time to hide herself. Taken captive and sold to the Sioux, she wondered if she would ever be reunited with her...
60) Many Gray Horses
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A stream runs out of the mountains and races through a small town by the Montana border. On its banks two teenage boys - one white, one Native American - watch and talk and take in the stories about the stream's source, a mysterious canyon high in the Rockies where glaciers feed the turquoise waters.
Meanwhile the boys have stories of their own - about how the earth came to be, and the mountains, and the tribes, and the bears and the warriors. And...
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