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Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with these recommended titles by, for and about Native Americans.
All of these library materials are owned by the Metropolitan Library System. Log on to CyberMars with your library card to reserve any titles that interest you, or ask a librarian for assistance.
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Black Silk Handkerchief: A Hom-Astubby Mystery
Birchfield, D. L. ( Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2006)
Shelf Number: Fiction/BIR
Oklahoma Choctaw lawyer Hom-Astubby, after befriending a stray dog while on vacation in Colorado , gets into trouble involving a huge manhunt and murder. The author's novel Field of Honor won the Western Writers of America Spur Award.
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Buy the chief a Cadillac: A Novel.
Steber, Rick (Carroll & Graf, c2005)
Shelf Number: Fiction/STE
In 1954, the U.S. government, under the Indian Termination Act, "incorporated" a great deal of Indian land on the Pacific coast and revoked the status of a number of tribes. Compensation came in 1961, in the form of $43,000 payments per tribe member. This novel focuses on how three brothers react. The eldest brother is a violent alcoholic who puts the money straight into the bottle. The middle brother is a college student who covets a red Corvette and can see little beyond that. The youngest, a half-white half-brother doesn't want the money at all. There's no happy ending, just a powerful, depressing portrait of government duplicity and reservation poverty, alcoholism, anger and despair.
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Bowen, Peter ( St. Martin 's/Minotaur, c2006)
Shelf Number: Mystery/BOW
The latest in the Gabriel Du Pre mystery series. In this installment Du Pre's search for a missing girl is complicated by a group of protesting fundamentalist Christians, the return of his granddaughter from school in Washington , D.C. and a young soldier just back from Iraq who may have lost his grip on reality.
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Three Day Road: A Novel
Boyden, Joseph (Viking, c2005)
Shelf Number: Fiction/BOY
In 1916, two Cree Indians enlist in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces and are sent to the western front as sharpshooters: Xavier spots and Elijah shoots. First novelist Boyden tells an exceptional tale of hell barely survived during World War I.
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The Trickster of Liberty : Native Heirs to a Wild Baronage
Vizenor, Gerald ( Univ. of Minnesota Press , c2005)
Shelf Number: Fiction/VIZ
A member of the Minnesota Chippewa tribe, and a novelist and poet with several published works, Vizenor, a masterful storyteller lyrically evokes tribal myths. In the wild outback of the White Earth Chippewa reservation, a family of tricksters-liberation figures from Native American literature-rebels against conventions, establishes ingenious business enterprises, and tell trickster stories far and wide.
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