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A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Plague of Doves—the first part of a loose trilogy that includes the National Book Award-winning The Round House and LaRose—is a gripping novel about a long-unsolved crime in a small North Dakota town and how, years later, the consequences are still being felt by the community and a nearby Native American reservation.
Though generations have passed, the town of Pluto continues
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
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361 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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A New York Times Notable Book
"Stunning. . . a moving meditation. . . infused with mystery and wonder." —Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In a masterwork that both deepens and enlarges the world of her previous novels, acclaimed author Louise Erdrich captures the essence of a time and the spirit of a woman who felt compelled by her beliefs to serve her people as a priest. The Last Report on
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A tale set in a world of reversing evolution and a growing police state follows pregnant thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, who investigates her biological family while awaiting the birth of a child who may emerge as a member of a primitive human species.
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Cork O'Connor volume 11
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Discovering a murdered teen while stranded by a gale on the remote Lake of the Woods, detective Cork O'Connor and his daughter, Jenny, also discover a mysterious baby boy whose life is threatened by powerful adversaries.
7) Four souls
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From New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes a haunting novel that continues the rich and enthralling Ojibwe saga begun in her novel Tracks.
After taking her mother's name, Four Souls, for strength, the strange and compelling Fleur Pillager walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She is seeking restitution from and revenge on the lumber baron who has stripped her tribe's land. But revenge
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Paul Two Persons volume 1
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Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1999
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291 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia
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[2021]
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1 online resource (11 pages) : color illustrations
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English
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A father teaches his daughter about the economy of their community by growing potatoes and sharing them with other families. Includes an Ojibwa translation.
10) White Fire
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Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
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371 pages ; 18 cm
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English
11) Ojibway tales
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University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
1993
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188 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
12) Journey
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Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia
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[2021]
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1 online resource (17 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
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English
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A young Ojibwe girl named Niigaaniins is taking blueberries to her grandmother when she finds herself embarking on a fantastic adventure after being transported to the future. Along the way, she observes surprising changes in the waterways of her homeland. Includes an Ojibwa translation.
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ECW
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[2021]
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1 online resource (218 pages)
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English
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All of a sudden the world goes black and a small Anishinaabe community in Ontario is left isolated without supplies from the increasingly chaotic south. As the community bands together to collect and share resources, a stream of survivors comes from the south and they begin to use up the community's stores of food and supplies. As the months pass, sickness and violence take over the community as does the tension between the natives and the outsiders....
14) SkySisters
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Kids Can Press
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[2021]
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1 online resource (32 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations
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English
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Alex and her big sister go exploring at night, they play in the snow, listen to Coyotes, and finally are visited by the northern lights.
15) Wintering
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In 1801, fourteen-year-old Pierre returns to work for the North West Fur Company and makes the long and difficult journey to a winter camp, where he learns from both the other voyageurs and from the Ojibwa Indians whose land they share.
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"Cash and Sheriff Wheaton make for a strange partnership. He pulled her from her mother's wrecked car when she was three. He's kept an eye out for her ever since. It's a tough place to live-northern Minnesota along the Red River. Cash navigated through foster homes, and at thirteen was working farms. She's tough as nails-five feet two inches, blue jeans, blue jean jacket, smokes Marlboros, drinks Bud Longnecks. Makes her living driving truck. Playing...
17) Taazh naazikiged
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Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia
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[2021]
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1 online resource (32 pages) : color illustrations
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Ojibwa
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Taazh the dog goes on an amazing adventure with a long stick. Includes an English translation.
18) Spirit crossing
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"The disappearance of a local politician's teenaged daughter is major news in Minnesota. As a huge manhunt is launched to find her, Cork O'Connor's grandson stumbles across the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman--but nobody seems that interested. Nobody, that is, except Cork and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police. As Cork and the tribal officers dig into the circumstances of this mysterious and grim discovery, they uncover a connection...
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Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 online resource (11 pages) : color illustrations
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Ojibwa
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A father teaches his daughter about the economy of their community by growing potatoes and sharing them with other families. Includes a glossary and English translation.
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University of Minnesota Press
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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 3 and 4, and her absence haunts all the lives she has touched--and all the stories they tell in this novel. In the Night of Memory returns to the fictional reservation...
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