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• Coexistence

  Stories

  Belcourt, Billy-Ray

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  (Driftpile Cree) Cree people deal with the intersections of sexuality, colonialism, and trauma. (NoveList)

• An Honored Vow

  Blair, Melissa, 1995-

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  (Anishinaabe) Keera has broken the kingdom's seals and released Fae magic back into the world. Now Keera has been transformed from Halfling into something not even the Fae elders can explain. (Library Journal)

• Old School Indian

  a Novel

  Curtis, Aaron John

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  (Saint Regis Mohawk) A Native American man returns home to heal wounds both literal and metaphorical. (Kirkus)

• Mask of the Deer Woman

  Dove, Laurie L.

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  (Cherokee) In this riveting police procedural, journalist Laurie L. Dove dramatizes real-life horror: that the disappearances of Indigenous women from the nation’s 326 reservations are much less likely to be investigated than the disappearances of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Small Ceremonies

  a Novel

  Edwards, Kyle,

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  (Ebb and Flow First Nation) Edwards’s spirited debut follows a group of Native hockey players in Winnipeg over the course of what might be their high school program’s last season. (Publishers Weekly)

• The Mighty Red

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise

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  (North Dakota Chippewa, Turtle Mountain Band) Pulitzer winner Erdrich follows the folks of the Red River Valley of North Dakota—the original home to the Ojibwe, the Dakota, and the Metis—in a captivating tale of love and everyday life amid…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• If the Dead Belong Here

  Faust, Carson,

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  (Edisto Natchez-Kusso Tribe) When a young girl goes missing, the ghosts of the past collide with her family’s secrets in a mesmerizing Native American Southern Gothic. (Publisher description)

• Big Chief

  Hickey, Jon, 1981-

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  (Lac du Flambeau Band of Chippewa) A fixer for a Native American tribal leader is caught in the drama of a tense election season. (Kirkus)

• The Devil Is a Southpaw

  a Novel

  Hobson, Brandon

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  (Cherokee) A haunting, unforgettable novel of obsession, pride, and forgiveness, exploring the friendship and rivalry between two gifted boys in harrowing circumstances. (Publisher description)

• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  (Blackfeet) A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice. (NoveList)

• Prairie Edge

  a Novel

  Kerr, Conor,

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  (Métis) A slow-moving, quietly furious portrait of two Indigenous Canadians and their attempts to ignite a protest movement. (Kirkus)

• Seventhblade

  Laird, Tonia

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  (Michif, Treaty 6) This stirring fantasy debut from video game writer Laird serves as a condemnation of settler colonialism, a celebration of Indigenous wisdom and practices, and a testament to the power of a mother’s love. (Publishers Weekly)

• The Whistler

  Medina, Nick

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  (Tunica-Biloxi) A young man is haunted by a mythological specter bent on stealing everything he loves in this unsettling horror from the author of Indian Burial Ground. (Publisher description)

• Love Is a War Song

  Nava, Danica

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  (Chickasaw) A troubled Native American pop star retreats to her estranged grandmother’s ranch in Oklahoma and finds unexpected love. (Kirkus)

• Wandering Stars

  Orange, Tommy, 1982-

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  (Cheyenne and Arapaho) Traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Red Feather's shooting in There There. (NoveList)

• Waiting for the Long Night Moon

  Stories

  Peters, Amanda

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  (Mi'kmaq) Stories of Indigenous experiences across time, from early European contact to modern water-rights activism, depicting resilience through characters like a residential school survivor, a water protector, and a young dancer, all revealing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Broken Fields

  Rendon, Marcie R.

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  (White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa) Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman, is back on the case after two men are found dead on a rural farm in 1970s Minnesota. (NoveList)

• Moon of the Turning Leaves

  a Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-

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  (Wasauksing) Years after a mysterious cataclysm caused a permanent blackout that toppled infrastructure and thrust the world into anarchy, Evan Whitesky's community is running out of resources in remote northern Ontario. Evan and his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Silent Are the Dead

  Rowell, D. M.

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  (Kiowa) One mystery bleeds into another as a Native woman and her cousin seek a missing headdress that may have instigated a murder. (Kirkus)

• Passing Through a Prairie Country

  a Novel

  Staples, Dennis E.

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  (Ojibwe) A haunted casino has left the people of the Languille Lake reservation living in constant terror. (Booklist)