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Central Library - History - 2nd Floor
973.0496 M
1 available
973.0496 M
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
973.0496 M
1 available
973.0496 M
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North Side Library - History - Adult
973.0496 M
1 available
973.0496 M
1 available
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Audiobooks
973.0496 M
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973.0496 M
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The first of its kind, this intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in America compels us to rethink both our past and present.
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
305.897 K
1 available
305.897 K
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
305.897 K
1 available
305.897 K
1 available
South Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
305.897 K
1 available
305.897 K
1 available
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders,...
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Hokeah, O.
1 available
Hokeah, O.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Hokeah, O.
1 available
Hokeah, O.
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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East Side Library - New Large Print - New Books
Hokeah, O.
1 available
Hokeah, O.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - New Large Print - New Books
Hokeah, O.
1 available
Hokeah, O.
1 available
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"A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man finding strength in his familial identity, from a stellar new voice in fiction. Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father’s injury at the hands of corrupt police, his mother's struggle to hold on to her job and care...
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Central Library - Biographies - 2nd Floor
B Geller, D.
1 available
B Geller, D.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Memoirs - Adult
B Geller, D.
1 available
B Geller, D.
1 available
South Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Geller, D.
1 available
B Geller, D.
1 available
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"After Danielle Geller's mother dies of a vicious withdrawal from drugs while homelessness, she is forced to return to Florida. Using her training as a librarian and archivist, Geller collects her mother's documents, diaries, and photographs into a single suitcase and begins on a journey of confronting her family, her harrowing past, and the decisions she's been forced to make, a journey that will end at her mother's home--the Navajo reservation....
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
811 M739e
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811 M739e
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"In Earth Keeper: Reflections on an American Land, Momaday reflects on his native ground and its influence on his people. "When I think about my life and the lives of my ancestors, I am inevitably led to the conviction that I, and they, belong to the American land. This is a declaration of belonging. And it is an offering to the earth." he writes. Earth Keeper is a story of attachment, rooted in oral tradition. Momaday recalls stories of his childhood...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Good, M.
1 available
Good, M.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Good, M.
1 available
Good, M.
1 available
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Central Library - New Large Print - New Books
Good, M.
1 available
Good, M.
1 available
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"Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world...
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Central Library - History - 2nd Floor
970.004 T
1 available
970.004 T
1 available
East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
970.004 T
1 available
970.004 T
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
970.004 T
1 available
970.004 T
1 available
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The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching...
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
970.004 D
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970.004 D
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"Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally-recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous...
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Marrow thieves novels volume 1
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Central Library - Teen Fiction - Teen
Dimaline, C.
1 available
Dimaline, C.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Teen Fiction - Teen
Dimaline, C.
1 available
Dimaline, C.
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population - and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow - and dreams - means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a 15-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite...
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Moon apocalyptic novels volume 1
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"A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadearship loses its...
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Central Library - Graphic Novels - Adult
Moonshot
1 available
Moonshot
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North Side Library - Graphic Novels - Adult
Moonshot
1 available
Moonshot
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South Side Library - Graphic Novels - Adult
Moonshot
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Moonshot
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"MOONSHOT: The Indigenous Comics Collection brings together dozens of creators from North America to contribute comic book stories showcasing the rich heritage and identity of indigenous storytelling. From traditional stories to exciting new visions of the future, this collection presents some of the finest comic book and graphic novel work on the continent.
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Lake witch trilogy volume 1
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Jones, S.
1 available
Jones, S.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Jones, S.
1 available
Jones, S.
1 available
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South Side Library - Audiobooks - Adult
Jones, S.
1 available
Jones, S.
1 available
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called "a literary master" by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and "one of our most talented living writers" by Tommy Orange. Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw "a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre." On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath...
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Central Library - Cooking - 2nd Floor
641.59297 B
1 available
641.59297 B
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Cooking - Adult
641.59297 B
1 available
641.59297 B
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Cooking - New Books
641.59297 B
1 available
641.59297 B
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"From Freddie Bitsoie, the former executive chef at Mitsitam Native Foods Café at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, and James Beard Award-winning author James O. Fraioli, New Native Kitchen is a celebration of Indigenous cuisine. Accompanied by original artwork by Gabriella Trujillo and offering delicious dishes like Cherrystone Clam Soup from the Northeastern Wampanoag and Spice-Rubbed Pork Tenderloin from the Pueblo peoples,...
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Talty, M.
1 available
Talty, M.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Talty, M.
1 available
Talty, M.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Talty, M.
1 available
Talty, M.
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"Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty--with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight--breathes life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain...
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East Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Harjo, J.
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B Harjo, J.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Memoirs - Adult
B Harjo, J.
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B Harjo, J.
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"Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. In the second memoir from the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, Joy Harjo invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic meditation, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry...
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Forest Ave. Library - Memoirs - Adult
979.7 L
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979.7 L
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Franklin Ave. Library - Memoirs - Adult
979.7 L
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979.7 L
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North Side Library - Memoirs - Adult
979.7 L
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979.7 L
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"Sasha taqwšeblu LaPointe, a Coast Salish indigenous woman, has always longed for a sense of home. As a child her family moved around frequently, often staying in barely habitable church attics and trailers, dangerous places for young Sasha. As an adolescent determined to escape the poverty and abuse of her childhood in order to build a better future for herself and her people, Sasha throws herself headlong into the world, with little more to guide...
17) The removed
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Hobson, B.
1 available
Hobson, B.
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Hobson, B.
1 available
Hobson, B.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Hobson, B.
1 available
Hobson, B.
1 available
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South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Hobson, B.
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Hobson, B.
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"Teeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago--from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer's in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads...
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Erdrich, L.
1 available
Erdrich, L.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Erdrich, L.
1 available
Erdrich, L.
1 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Erdrich, L.
1 available
Erdrich, L.
1 available
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South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Erdrich, L.
1 available
Erdrich, L.
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After serving part of an outrageously long sentence, Tookie, who 'learned to read with murderous attention' while in prison, naturally gravitates toward working at a bookstore. There she joins a dedicated community of artists and book lovers and begins to build a new life for herself. When Flora, the store's most persistent customer, suddenly dies, her ghost refuses to leave. Flora returns on All Soul's Day to haunt the bookstore and in particular,...
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
814 Sh22
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814 Sh22
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
814 Sh22
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814 Sh22
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"For many the phrase "Native nonfiction" inspires thoughts of the past, of timeless oral history transcriptions and dry 19th century autobiographies. In Shapes of Native Nonfiction, Washuta and Warburton explode this perspective by showcasing 22 contemporary Native writers and their provocative approaches to form. While exploring familiar legacies of personal and collective trauma and violence, these writers push, pull and break the conventional essay...
20) Shutter
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Central Library - Mysteries - 1st Floor
Emerson, R.
1 available
Emerson, R.
1 available
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Central Library - New Large Print - New Books
Emerson, R.
1 available
Emerson, R.
1 available
North Side Library - New Large Print - New Books
Emerson, R.
1 available
Emerson, R.
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"Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases -- she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook. As a lone portal back to the living for traumatized spirits, Rita is terrorized by nagging ghosts who won't...