Native American Fiction
National Native American Heritage Month, observed in November, honors the histories, cultures, and contributions – historical and ongoing – of American Indians and Alaska Natives. Tribal affiliation(s) listed before annotations. (Created October 2023)
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Bad Cree
(Cree, Sucker Creek First Nation) Nightmares seep into reality for Mackenzie whose sorrow, two years after the death of her sister, is feeding a wheetigo spirit.
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Don't Fear the Reaper
(Blackfoot) Proofrock, Idaho, is at the mercy of a sadistic escaped serial killer. Can Jade Daniels use her wits and encyclopedic knowledge of slasher films to save her town? The secret to My Heart is a Chainsaw.
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Blood Sisters
(Cherokee) Called back to her hometown in Oklahoma, where she survived an attack that killed her childhood best friend, archaeologist Syd must fight threats from all angles as she works to identify remains and find her missing sister.
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Sinking Bell
(Diné) Captured in arresting, poetic relief, the lives of people variously struggling to make ends meet in the microcosm of Flagstaff, Arizona, shine forth with stark beauty, dignity, and wonder.
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Sisters of the Lost Nation
(Tunica-Biloxi) The all-too-real horror of the disappearance of Indigenous women and girls takes on mythic proportions when Two-Spirit teen Anna Horn connects a new casino to an ancient evil.
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A Grandmother Begins the Story
(Métis) Five generations of women cross paths with one another, the land, and animal relatives as they navigate what it means to be Métis and what relatives owe each other.
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A Council of Dolls
(Standing Rock Sioux) Three dolls, beloved by young girls from one ancestral line in the 1960s, 1930s, and 1880s reveal their history of colonization, forced assimilation, trauma, and resilience.
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The Half-white Album
(Diné) The threads of one Diné family are unwoven and restrung through poetry, short stories, and music as they grapple with the realties of being urban Natives.
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Night of the Living Rez
(Penobscot) By turns harsh and tender, these candid and compassionate vignettes lay bare the life of David, a young man growing up on the Penobscot reservation in Maine.
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Stealing
(Cherokee) Shipped off to a residential school, nine-year-old Cherokee girl Kit Crockett turns to her journal to puzzle out the mystery of how she wound up there, and how she might be freed.
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