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Exposure by Ramona Emerson

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Second in Ramona Emerson’s planned trilogy about Navajo crime photographer Rita Todacheene, Exposure takes you on an intense ridealong with Rita, who uses her camera to meticulously and unflinchingly document the most gruesome crime scenes. You can think that the images themselves suggest clues to…
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White Horse by Erika T Wurth

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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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The Only Good Indians audiobook

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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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Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

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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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Blood of the Oak by Eliot Pattison

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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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