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Half white and half Indian, Yakima Henry tends to mind his own business among folks who see him as little more than a savage. But when a man named Barstow -- who's taking his dead daughter home for burial -- is bullied by badmen, Yakima steps in. Barstow's daughter supposedly shared a secret with her father about the location of the loot her outlaw lover stole. Although he claims no knowledge, Barstow's become a wanted man. And so has Yakima Henry....
2) Sundancer
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1999
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403 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
3) Iron Lake
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Cork O'Connor volume 1
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English
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A hated judge is found dead in suspicious circumstances in a town in Minnesota with an Indian casino and a young Ojibwa Indian leaves home in a hurry. Former sheriff Cork O'Connor investigates if there is a connection.
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In the universally-praised Returning to Earth, Jim Harrison has delivered a masterpiece a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and the possibility of finding redemption in unlikely places. Donald is a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man slowly dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. His condition deteriorating, he realizes no one will be able to pass on to his children their family history once he is gone. He begins dictating to his wife,...
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Manitoba studies in native history volume 1
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University of Manitoba Press
Pub. Date
c1985
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xvi, 266 p., [22] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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English
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A woman's remarkable life provides a new perspective on a century of turbulent change.
Daybreak Woman, (also known as Jane Anderson Robertson), the daughter of an Anglo-Canadian trader and a Scots-Dakota woman, was born at a trading post on the Minnesota River in 1810. When she died in 1904, after having lived in the region all those years, she had witnessed seismic changes, survived cataclysmic events, and, with her children, endured to rebuild...
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Romulus Poe volume 1
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W. Morrow and Co
Pub. Date
c1998
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424 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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North Dakota State University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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240 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian in the first place. Too bad the white world doesn't accept her either. And so begins her quirky habits to gain acceptance. Apple's name, chosen by her Indian mother on her deathbed, has a double meaning: treasured apple of my eye, but also the negative connotation...
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Indian Lake volume 3
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Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
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455 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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It's been four years in prison since Jade Daniels last saw her hometown of Proofrock, Idaho, the day she took the fall, protecting her friend Letha and her family from incrimination. Since then, her reputation, and the town, have changed dramatically. There's a lot of unfinished business in Proofrock, from serial killer cultists to the rich trying to buy Western authenticity. But there's one aspect of Proofrock no one wants to confront... until Jade...
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Indian Lake volume 2
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Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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457 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted serial killer, Dark Mill South, seeking revenge for thirty-eight Dakota men hanged in 1862, escapes from his prison transfer due to a blizzard, just outside of Proofrock, Idaho"--
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American legends collection volume 6
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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In 1904, sixteen-year-old Billy Pinto watches as the three men accused of murdering his Shoshone mother are set free, simply because the judge and prosecuting attorney don{u2019}t believe they can successfully try white men for the killing of an Indian. Stunned by the court{u2019}s decision, Billy decides to take justice into his own hands. He ambushes the three killers outside of town, then kidnaps the judge{u2019}s granddaughter before fleeing into...
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Dalva volume 2
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
1998
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446 p. : geneal. table, maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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Jane Whitefield volume 6
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2009
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441 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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xvii, 254 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A landmark work of Black and Native American history that reconfigures our understanding of identity, race, and belonging and the inspiring ways marginalized people have pushed to redefine their world In this paradigm-shattering work of American history, Caleb Gayle tells the extraordinary story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe that two centuries ago both owned slaves and accepted Black people as full members. Thanks to the leadership of a chief...
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Jane Whitefield volume 7
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Protecting a man wrongly charged with the murder of his wife, Jane Whitefield is shot and abducted by the real culprits, who threaten to kill her if she does not reveal her client's whereabouts.
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xxv, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Mays explores the relationship and differences between the Black American quest for freedom and the Native American struggle for sovereignty in the U.S"--
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