Native American Heritage 2007

	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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	The Singing Bird: a Cherokee Novel John M. Oskison (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, c2007) Shelf Number: Fiction/OSK This Cherokee author was the first member of his people to attend Stanford University. After graduating, he had an illustrious career as a magazine editor and short story writer. When he died in 1947, he left behind the manuscript for The Singing Bird. The novel, now published for the first time, shows the Cherokee people at the other end of the Trail of Tears, as they moved from Arkansas and settled in what is now Oklahoma. Told through the eyes of a New England missionary, the story weaves in portraits of tribal chief John Ross and Sequoia, as well as various members of the U.S. military, and even Sam Houston.
	A Thousand Voices Lisa Wingate (NAL Accent, c2007) Shelf Number: Fiction/WIN Dell Jordan lived in poverty, until at the age of 13 she was adopted by Karen and James. She went to a home filled with love, but always felt isolated, thinking of herself as the odd one out with her Native American features. So she sets out for her birthplace in the Kiamichi Mountains of Oklahoma, looking for her Choctaw roots. By good fortune she arrives during a festival, and finds what she was looking for—people who look like her celebrating their cultural heritage, making her proud of who she is and where she comes from.
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	The Translation of Dr. Apelles; a Love Story David Treuer (Graywolf Press, c2006) Shelf Number: Fiction/TRE This novel is a blending of two love stories, one mythological, and the other very much in the urban present. Dr. Apelles is a Native American translator of ancient Native American texts. A new translation he is working on; a mythological tale of two orphaned Native Americans from different tribes who fall in love, suffer hardships, and eventually marry, causes him to see his own life as colorless and without love. As he becomes romantically involved with a coworker, the translation becomes the story he tells her of his own life.
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	Wild Indigo Sandi Ault (Berkley Prime Crime, c2006) Shelf Number: Fiction/AUL Native American Jerome Santana is trampled to death by stampeding buffalo when he enters their pen. The only witness is Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild, who is studying Pueblo ways under the mentorship of Jerome’s mother. Soon Jamaica is blamed for Jerome’s death. She must navigate her way through this unfamiliar culture to find the truth. This well-researched debut mystery is set in northern New Mexico.
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