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Native Americans in Fiction and

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Book	Author	Dewey Number	Description
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee	Brown, Dee	970.1 BRO	“Published in 1970 at the height of the activist movements, Brown’s reassessment of the 19th-century wars between Indians and the federal government resonated with a generation of Americans.”
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee	Treuer, David	970.004 TRE	“Ultimately, Treuer’s powerful book suggests the need for soul-searching about the meanings of American history and the stories we tell ourselves about this nation’s past.”
Blood and Thunder	Sides, Hampton	978.02 SID	History of the Navajo resistance to westward expansion during the years of Kit Carson and Manifest Destiny.
Facing East from Indian Country	Richter, Daniel K.	970 RIC	A focus on the Eastern woodland native communities before and after the American Revolution.
The Original Vermonters	Haviland, William	VT 974.3 HAV	Focuses on the Native American presence in Vermont, past and present.
The Unredeemed Captive	Demos, John	973.2 DEM	Story of a colonial captive from Deerfield, Massachusetts and the Mohawk family she refused to leave.
Mayflower	Philbrick, Nathaniel	973.22 PHI	Interwoven with the story of the Pilgrims is the story of the Wampanoags-Massasoit, Squanto and Philip.
Black Elk Speaks	Neihardt, John	978 NEI	A well-known and influential title that has become controversial—as many Lakota people and scholars do not consider the material to be an accurate representation of their beliefs.
Killers of the Flower Moon	Grann, David	976.6 GRA	After oil is discovered on the Osage Indian nation, the wealthy Osage begin to be murdered and a newly formed FBI investigates.
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear	Alvord, Lori	92 ALV	Attempts to merge holistic healing and modern high-tech medicine are not new, but the perspective of a Navajo woman surgeon makes this very personal account unique.
Braiding Sweetgrass	Kimmerer, Robin Wall	305.59 KIM	Botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation merges indigenous knowledge of the natural world with her training as a scientist.
Heart Berries	Mailhot, Terese	92 MAI	A raw poetic memoir by a First Nation woman, called “an Iliad for the indigenous” by Sherman Alexie.
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me	Alexie, Sherman	92 ALE	The story of the popular Native American author’s difficult upbringing.
One Thousand White Women	Fergus, Jim	FIC FER	Tale of a woman who travels West in 1875 to marry the chief of the Cheyenne Nation.
The Vengeance of Mothers	Fergus, Jim	FIC FER	Sequel to One Thousand White Women, an adventure that explores questions of identity and culture.
The Round House	Erdrich, Louise	FIC ERD	Erdrich won the National Book Award for her return to the North Dakota Ojibwe community she introduced in The Plague of Doves (2008)—in this story about the aftermath of a rape.
The Plague of Doves	Erdrich, Louise	FIC ERD	A novel about the Ojibwes and the whites they live among in North Dakota spirals around a terrible multiple murder that reverberates down through generations of a community.
The Painted Drum	Erdrich, Louise	FIC ERD	The worlds of ancestry and tradition, humans and animals (notably, wolves and ravens), living and remembering and dreaming, are here rendered here with extraordinary clarity and insistent emotional impact.
The Bingo Palace	Erdrich, Louise	FIC ERD	The Bingo Palace" is set firmly in the present: gambling halls and ramshackle government housing now define the landscape; the old ways, tribal rituals and beliefs, are increasingly artifacts.
The Antelope Wife	Erdrich, Louise	FIC ERD	Erdrich fashions a powerful and dauntingly elliptical tale of obsession and separation that moves backward and forward through time from Northern Plains Indian settlements to present-day Minneapolis.
The Birchbark House	Erdrich, Louise	J FIC ERD	With a title and structure that inescapably recall Laura Ingalls Wilder’s family stories, Louise Erdrich here paints a detailed portrait of Ojibwa life in the mid-nineteenth century.
Dawn Land	Bruchac, Joseph	YA BRU	Bruchac's first novel--based on Native American legends, tall tales, and myths, and especially suitable as a YA--follows a young warrior on a vision quest into the unknown.
Hidden Roots	Bruchac, Joseph	J FIC BRU	Eventually, Uncle Louis tells the secret: they are Abenaki Indians, not whites, closeted because of sterilization laws enacted against Indians in Vermont during those decades.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian	Alexie, Sherman	YA ALE	Alexie nimbly blends sharp wit with unapologetic emotion in his first foray into young-adult literature.
Song of the Lion	Hillerman, Anne	FIC HIL	Tribal divisions cause tensions that result in a car bomb in this mystery—or is the motive something closer to home?
This Tender Land	Krueger, William Kent	FIC KRU	For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing, a novel about four orphans, escaped from the Lincoln School, a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated.
There There	Orange, Tommy	FIC ORA	His novel is about urban Indians, “We know the sound of the freeway better than we do rivers, the howl of distant trains better than wolf howls, we know the smell of gas and freshly wet concrete and burned rubber better than we do the smell of cedar or sage or even fry bread.”