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Lorena loves horses. Breeding and training them is her life's passion. When she inherits her Grandpa's horse ranch in Montana, what she discovers is both fascinating and frightening-secrets hidden away in an old trunk in the attic for over a century. Captivated by a worn photograph from 1877, she begins to dream of a Lakota warrior. Her dreams take an unusual turn, and the man is no longer dressed in buckskins, but blue jeans and a flannel shirt. Sky Hunter lives on the Rez. Dealing with demons from his past, he is depressed, unemployed, and drinks too much. While praying in the Sweat Lodge...

"Don't say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story. You've heard it now." --Thomas King, in this volume

Read, Listen, Tell brings together an extraordinary range of Indigenous stories from across Turtle Island (North America). From short fiction to as-told-to narratives, from illustrated stories to personal essays, these stories celebrate the strength of heritage and the liveliness of innovation. Ranging in tone from humorous to defiant to triumphant, the stories explore core concepts in Indigenous literary...

In his most accomplished novel to date, Roger DeBlanck delivers an unforgettable contemporary story of a young Native American man on the road to recovery. Abuse and addiction have ruined Thomas Newsome's youth, but he refuses to follow the wasted path of his father, Gilbert. After Thomas narrowly avoids tragedy, he vows to get clean and stay that way. Before he can bury his past and move on, he wants answers from his father for why he never changed. But then Gilbert falls ill and takes off on a road trip. With only a handful of clues from his Apache past, Thomas sets out on a journey to...

WHITE MAMA Invited to share the life of an Aborigine community, Athenais, a young Greek woman, discovers a world which deeply disrupts her. She falls in love with Tjukurpa, a child who has suffered and who, little by little, accepts her as his mother, and she considers settling in this new existence forever, so close to nature and its resources. But, her ex-companion is looking for her... It is her own fictionalised experience that the author invites us to discover in this powerful and moving tale. Two unforgettable years which will soon haunt your own dreams. This book is a testimony of...

Little Jack is a Lakota Indian living in a small Vermont town, Brandon. He's known as the vagabond Injun' who tends to people's gardens and lives part-time with a single mom and her daughter, Abigail. Trouble finds him one night when two men visit him at his trailer in the woods, to kill him. Little Jack fights back and almost beats one of the men to death. He is sent to an asylum and the mother and Abigail leave VT for Boston. Seven years later, older Abigail retrieves Little Jack from the asylum and brings him home to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. A new life emerges for them...

After falling into a river on her way to Oregon with her family in 1845, Vanessa is saved by Shadow Hawk, a Sioux Chief of the Hunt. He insists she is to become his woman, since he saved her life, but wants her to marry him willingly. In a tug of war between Vanessa's heart, and Shadow Hawk's power over her, her life takes many turns. Will she ever manage to escape him, and put the memory of him out of her heart, or will he capture her heart forever?

We all suffer loss - of a dear friend, a diamond, even a misspent day - and then we move on. But how can the Aboriginal people of Australia ever recover from the loss of their essential religious objects, the secret/sacred tjurunga (cher-UNGA) stones? During a century of British colonial occupation many tjurunga, which had bound together countless generations, were stolen, sold to collectors, or forfeited to missionaries. Readers join naive American Mark Hafford as he jets over the Pacific Ocean en route to Australia. At his feet is one of the Aboriginal "holy of holies," a tjurunga stone...

Book sixteen FBI unconventional Erotica series WARNING: Contains sex, violence, language, and threesomes. The Killer: All the world is a stage, and these are my actors. I'm here to play with them, torment them, and finally end their lives by my hand. Why? Because I can. I have all the power. I'm setting the stage for the perfect production. Ultimately, I want the FBI's attention-specifically Elizabeth Blackhawk's. When I get it, the game will be in play. Oh, she's perfectly safe, since I need her to play with me, but her husband? He's the one I really want to impress. The game is going to be...

Mexico's indigenous people speak a number of rich and complex languages today, as they did before the arrival of the Spanish. Yet a common misperception is that Mayas have no languages of their own, only dialectos, and therefore live in silence. In reality, contemporary Mayas are anything but voiceless. Chiapas Maya Awakening, a collection of poems and short stories by indigenous authors from Chiapas, Mexico, is an inspiring testimony to their literary achievements. A unique trilingual edition, it presents the contributors' works in the living Chiapas Mayan languages of...

Ages ago, in the tropical Caribbean before the arrival of Columbus, a young child lost all she knew and loved . . . but through unbreakable courage, she forged a new life. Nyna is awakened in the blackness of night to find her peaceful Taino village under attack by the savage Caribs. In a frantic effort to save Nyna, her parents shove her out to sea in an empty enemy dugout, hoping the current and wind will bring her to rest on another Taino island. Nyna witnesses the massacre of her mother and her father as they heroically sacrifice their lives to save her. For days she drifts beneath the...

It is the mid-1700s on The Great Plains. An orphaned and ostracized fifteen-year-old Native American boy looks up at a bizarre, one-eyed medicine woman and asks himself, "Why am I not dead?" He does not trust the "witch" and is horrified by her ways, but he has no other path to survival and to becoming both man and warrior. When a powerful warrior chieftain from his village threatens both his and the medicine woman's lives, the boy is secreted off to live in the wilderness. There, an ancient exiled hermit teaches him the dark past of his "witch" mentor and how to survive the ever-present...

"Someone's going to be king in this territory. No reason it can't be me. It sure won't be you."

Betrayed.

Someone is tearing at the fabric of the Choctaw Nation while political turmoil, assassinations, and feuds threaten the sovereignty of the tribe, which stands under the U.S. government's scrutiny.

When heated words turn to hot lead, Ruth Ann Teller-a mixed-blood Choctaw-fears losing her brother, who won't settle for anything but the truth. Matthew is determined to use his newspaper, the Choctaw Tribune, to uncover the scheme behind Mayor...

American history books often portray the Spanish missions of California as havens of civil coexistence between the Spanish conquistadors, the Catholic priests, and the native Indians who had long inhabited the area. In reality, the "civilized" Christian life that was forced upon the natives was steeped in cruelty and violence.

Debra Barton's The Cry of the Lone Coyote is an unflinching portrayal of the devastating effects that the Catholic mission life and the colonization of California had on Native Americans during the nineteenth century. As told through three generations...

The Eastern French Frontier, 1754. The French and Indian War is about to begin. The War Trail is a rich and electrifying account of one early American coping with the new world. Wolfgang Steiner is a young German Redemptioner hired out to the Ohio Company as a hunter. He finds himself stranded in the wilderness and pursued relentlessly by the Iroquois. He crosses the brutal Northwest Frontier into French, then Spanish and Indian-dominated lands of North America. In the midst of his pursuit for freedom, he finds companionship with a young wolf. The plot complicates with the appearance of a...

When Callie's parents insist she marry her dead sister's husband, to be the mother of her sister's five children, she reluctantly goes to Texas to join Chet on his ranch there. However, her despise for a husband she never wanted, only grows. During her most vulnerable moment, as she is giving birth to her first child, Chet's ranch is raided by Comanche Indians, looking for a milk cow. When the leader of the group sees Callie is in labor, he realizes she can help save the life of his infant son, who's mother was recently killed. Having already killed her husband, the band takes Callie and her...

Before the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person to person, by word of mouth. The rich histories of so many people were told in songs, chants, poems and stories. This was the way of Native American tribes. Each in its own way enriching their stories with their own experiences. By reliving these stories and songs, we have the opportunity to bring life back to the ancient spirits that created them. We have a chance to walk with the spirits of the past.

Being there were so many different tribes with countless...

"Kill the Indian and save the man" is the motto given by the founder of a school, in 1879, who believed that if he could erase the culture, religion and identity from Indian children, teaching them how to function in a "white man's world" they could become upstanding citizens of the United States. However, Kanton, a 16 year old Apache Indian, had other ideas. He vowed never to bend to the white man's world, even though to please his father he agreed to go to the school and at least learn to, read, write, and learn the English language. When he escapes the walls of the school and gets involved...