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42) Vanishing act
Author
Series
Jane Whitefield novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jane Whitefield helps people disappear by giving them a new identity--new appearance, new social security card--and her clientele ranges from bankrupt businessmen to fleeing wives. On this occasion, things backfire and she must resort to her Native American talents to track a dangerous customer she helped disappear.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"December 12th, 2019, Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer Dark Mill South escapes into town to complete his revenge killings, in this riveting sequel to My Heart Is a Chainsaw from New York Times bestselling author, Stephen Graham Jones. Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life...
44) Jubal Sackett
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Restless explorer Jubal Sackett journeys westward into the vast, unmapped wilderness of seventeenth-century America and discovers the perils of the rugged frontier, a new way of life among the Indians, and the love of a beautiful Natchez Indian princess.
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Department of Health and Human Services reported that Native American women are second only to African American women in terms of death rate due to homicide and drug abuse. Psychiatric disorders such as depression and obesity-related diseases like diabetes are also common among Native populations. Not surprisingly, poverty, limited access to preventive health care, and some cultural barriers are at the heart of many of these persistent health...
47) Te Ata
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It is based on the inspiring true story of Mary Thompson Fisher, a woman who traversed cultural barriers to become one of the greatest Native American performers of all time. Born in Indian Territory, and raise on the songs and stories of her Chickasaw culture, Te Ata's journey to find her true calling led her through isolation, discovery, love and a stage career that culminated in performances for a United States president, European royalty and audiences...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1998, c1995
Language
English
Description
Looks at women from four Native American groups--the Puebloans, the Iroquois, the fur-trading tribes of the central Great Lakes region, the Cherokees--and explores the possibilities open to women and how colonization by Europeans changed their lives.
49) Poison Flower
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
James Shelby has been unjustly convicted of his wife's murder. In order to save him from prison or death, Jane orchestrates his escape from the heavily guarded criminal court building in downtown Los Angeles. But the price of Shelby's freedom is higher than Jane ever could have imagined. Within minutes, imposters posing as police officers shoot Jane, take her away, and tie her to a mattress in a small, dark room. Jane's captors are employees of the...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, a fierce, gripping novel about Native life, motherhood and mental health that follows a young Mohawk woman who discovers that the picture-perfect life she always hoped for may have horrifying consequences. On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be in life: she's just given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Dawn; her ever-charming husband Steve--a white academic whose area of...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed, a Modoc Indian from California, and Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmett Parker, a Comanche from Oklahoma, are a team, sent by the feds wherever there are problems in tribal territory. Their latest assignment takes them to the Oneida lands in upstate New York where Brenda Two Kettles, an elder of the Oneida Tribe, has been found dead in a cornfield, every major bone in her body shattered.
52) Searching for Savanna: the murder of one Native American woman and the violence against the many
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 2017, twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind vanished. A week after she disappeared, police arrested the white couple who lived upstairs from Savanna and emerged from their apartment carrying an infant girl. The baby was Savanna's, but Savanna's body would not be found for days. The horrifying crime sent shock waves far beyond Fargo, North Dakota, where it occurred, and helped expose the sexual and physical violence Native...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Follows Robin Charboneau, a magnetic 31-year-old Oglala Sioux woman living on the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota. In sharing her story, this documentary will portray the realities of what it means to be a contemporary Native American woman living in two worlds.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Pocahontas was only eleven years old when, on her kneesm she begged her father, Chief Powhatan, to spare the life of the captured Englishman John Smith. According to trival custom, this act made her "brother", a kinship she never forgot. But relations between the Indians and the white settlers at the Jamestown colony were ever-changing. For ten more years, Pocahontas would be caught up in the tensions separating the two cultures. And before there...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
"The myths and cosmologies of non-Western peoples are not just histories, relating the world as it once was, nor are they pseudo-histories, justifying the world as it has come to be. Instead, they are tools of struggle: ideologies both producing and produced by the effort to create society in someone's image. On them are written the memories and hopes of forgotten people, yearning for power over their - and others' - lives. Such is Irene Silverblatt's...
57) Pocahontas
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Pocahontas, the daughter of the Chief Powhatan, who married an English colonist, and traveled to England before her death in 1617.
59) Canaan: a novel
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This is the story of America over twenty years of its most turbulent history. The characters are black, white, and red, ex-Union and ex-Confederate; and the principal narrator is a Santee woman, She Goes Before, who marries an ex-slave. Through her eyes we wirtness the hanging of her father by whites in the mass execution of 1863, Red Cloud's banquet with President Grant, and that final confrontation on the bluffs above the Little Bighorn.
Author
Series
Publisher
7th Generation Native Voices
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Twelve biographies of Indigenous women who, as modern-day warriors, have infused their communities with strength and leadership. The women overcame unimaginable hardships--racial and gender discrimination, abuse, and extreme poverty--only to rise to great heights in the fields of politics, science, education, and community activism"--Provided by publisher.
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