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• Legendary Frybread Drive-in

  Intertribal Stories

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  The road to Sandy June's Legendary Frybread Drive-In slips through every rez and alongside every urban Native hangout. The menu offers a rotating feast, including traditional eats and tasty snacks. But Sandy June's serves up more than food: it hosts…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fragments That Remain

  Angeconeb, Mackenzie,

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  Honorary twins Ally and Andy, born at the start and end of the same year, have always shared everything — until Ally dies, his passing ruled a suicide by overdose. A year later, Andy starts her first year at college without her other half, writing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sisters in the Wind

  Boulley, Angeline,

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  Ever since Lucy Smith’s father died five years ago, “home” has been more of an idea than a place. She knows being on the run is better than anything waiting for her as a “ward of the state”. But when the sharp-eyed and kind Mr. Jameson with an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ours to Tell

  Reclaiming Indigenous Stories

  Yellowhorn, Eldon, 1956-

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  A wide-ranging anthology that shines a light on untold Indigenous stories as chronicled by Indigenous creators, compiled by the acclaimed team behind Turtle Island and Sky Wolf's Call. For too long, stories and artistic expressions from Indigenous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where Wolves Don't Die

  Treuer, Anton,

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  Tightly woven Indigenous YA thriller that explores masculinity and love between generations of family Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojibwe, at a local college, so they have to be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indiginerds

  Tales From Modern Indigenous Life

  Pete, Alina (EDT)/ Trotman, Spike C. (EDT)

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  First Nations culture is living, vibrant, and evolving, and generations of Indigenous kids have grown up with pop culture creeping inexorably into our lives. From gaming to social media, pirate radio to garage bands, Star Trek to D&D, and missed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Constellation of Minor Bears

  Ferguson, Jenny, 1985-

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  Before that awful Saturday, Molly used to be inseparable from her brother, Hank, and his best friend, Tray. The indoor climbing accident that left Hank with a traumatic brain injury filled Molly with anger. While she knows the accident wasn’t…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Little Moons

  Storm, Jen, 1986-

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  Graphic Novel. Reanna grieves the loss of her older sister. Can she find comfort through her family’s Ojibwe traditions? It’s been a year since Reanna’s sister, Chelsea, went missing on her way home from school. Without any idea of what happened,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Unfinished

  Isaacs, Cheryl,

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  In this debut YA horror novel by Cheryl Isaacs (Mohawk), small-town athlete Avery is haunted by the black water and Unfinished beings of Kanyen’kehá:ka stories and must turn to the culture she hasn’t felt connected to in order to save her town. Look…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sheine Lende

  a Prequel to Elatsoe

  Little Badger, Darcie, 1987-

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  Shane works with her mother and their ghost dogs, tracking down missing persons even when their families can’t afford to pay. Their own family was displaced from their traditional home years ago following a devastating flood – and the loss of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Liar's Test

  Kwaymullina, Ambelin, 1975-

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  In a competition where seven girls from different guilds vie for the throne, Bell Silverleaf, a reluctant fifteen-year-old contender with a hidden talent for deception, intends to win and overthrow the kingdom, but finds she is not the only…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Was a Teenage Slasher

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  "1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton-and a place where everyone knows everyone else's business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Billy Buckhorn and the Rise of the Night Seers

  Robinson, Gary, 1950-

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  "Cherokee teen Billy Buckhorn had no idea what was in store for him when Osage teen Lisa Lookout and her family showed up on his doorstep. A tribal prophecy, carried by their family for a thousand years, indicates Billy is the long-awaited Chosen…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Looking for Smoke

  Cobell, K. A.,

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  "When local girl Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren's missing sister, Mara thinks she'll finally make some friends on the Blackfeet reservation. Instead, a girl from the Giveaway, Samantha White Tail, is found…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Killing the Wittigo

  Indigenous Culture-based Approaches to Waking Up, Taking Action, and Doing the Work of Healing : a Book for Young Adults

  Methot, Suzanne, 1968-

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  Killing the Wittigo explains the traumatic effects of colonization on Indigenous people and communities and how trauma alters an individual’s brain, body, and behavior. It explores how learned patterns of behavior — the ways people adapt to trauma…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Godly Heathens

  a Novel

  Edgmon, H. E.,

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  Gem Echols is a nonbinary Seminole teen living in the tiny town of Gracie, Georgia. Known for being their peers’ queer awakening, Gem leans hard on charm to disguise the anxious mess they are beneath. The only person privy to their authentic self is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Into the Bright Open

  a Secret Garden Remix

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  A newly orphaned girl is sent to the Canadian wilderness to live with relatives she's never met, only to discover her new home is full of secrets both wonderful and horrifying in this lyrical retelling of The Secret Garden. At first Mary Lennox…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Earthdivers. Volume One, Kill Columbus

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  "The year is 2112, and it's the apocalypse exactly as expected: rivers receding, oceans rising, civilization crumbling. Humanity has given up hope, except for a group of Indigenous outcasts who have discovered a time travel portal in a cave in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Saints of the Household

  Tison, Ari,

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  When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rez Ball

  Graves, Byron,

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  These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team—even though he can’t help but be constantly gut-punched with memories of his big brother, Jaxon, who died in an accident. When Jaxon's former…Read moreRead more of this annotation