PrintReviews

White Horse by Erika T Wurth

The White Horse is a run-down Indian bar in Denver. It’s where Kari James, an urban Indian woman of Apache and Chikasaw heritage, goes to drink beer and whiskey, unwind after working her waitressing and bartending jobs, and occasionally pick up men. Kari is in…
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Book Club

The Only Good Indians audiobook

Stephen Graham Jones’s wonderful contemporary gothic tale starts with a crime, when four young Blackfeet men trespass on the part of their reservation set aside for the tribe’s elders and shoot into a herd of elk. One of the dying elk was pregnant and in…
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PrintReviews

Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Winter Counts are pictorial histories and calendars common among some Native American tribes. For Virgil Wounded Horse, of the Lakota Nation and living on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Colorado, they represent one of the few comfortable memories of his tribal culture. He would make…
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PrintReviews

Blood of the Oak by Eliot Pattison

Blood of the Oak takes us back to Pennsylvania in 1765, when the British were still in control. Nominally. On the banks of the Susquehanna and Alegheny rivers, and further south in Virginia it’s not only the natives who are restless. A punitive stamp tax…
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Features

Interview: Christopher Bowron

Debut author Christopher Bowron’s novel Devil in the Grass comes out 1 March. It’s a lively exploration of two great divides that characterise its South Florida setting: wealth versus poverty, and developers versus environmentalists. Add in the special concerns of the native Seminole population at long-term odds with…
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