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1) Bone game
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
In California, a madman is loose on a college campus, killing and dismembering young girls. Professor Cole McCurtain, an Indian, investigates the crimes and uncovers an evil force born of the cruel treatment of Indians by Spanish missionaries. By the author of The Sharpest Sight.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the massacre by the U.S. Army of a Cheyenne village after it had raised the white flag. The event occurred in 1864 in Colorado. The commander, Colonel John Chivington, was never brought to justice, while Captain Silas Soule, who with his company refused to participate, was killed as a traitor. Five hundred people died. By the author of The Dark Fire.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Jacob Neptune, a wise-cracking, two-fisted Penacook private investigator with a checkered past, lives in upstate New York--four hundred miles from his tribal community on Abenaki Island. Then one night the phone rings. "We. got. trouble," Neptune's cousin Dennis says from the other end. And trouble is where it all starts in this brilliant, often hilarious novel by acclaimed Abenaki storyteller Joseph Bruchac. Attacked by bikers before he can even...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A collection of six plays, uses a melange of voices to invoke the myths and realities of modern Native American life. The author intermixes poetry and prose to address themes of gender, generational relationships, acculturation, myth, and tensions between Christianity and traditional Native American belief systems.
12) Padoskoks
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Abenaki detective Jacob Neptune and his best buddy Dennis Mitchell find themselves on the Northwest coast investigating a series of murders and disappearances that may be linked to the monster known as Padoskoks, the giant underwater serpent"--
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"The Trickster of Liberty has become a classic in the repertoire of celebrated author Gerald Vizenor. A series of related stories, the novel follows the lives of seven mixedblood trickster siblings who began their lives on a reservation in northern Minnesota. Behaving in unpredictable ways, these siblings defy any attempt to fit them within stereotypical notions of the Indian. Memorable characters include the grandfather, Lusterbow, "the Baron of...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Adopted into the Cherokee tribe as a teenager, William Holland Thomas (1805-93), known to the Cherokees as Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to have a distinguished career as lawyer, politician, and soldier. He spent the last decades of his life in a mental hospital, where the pioneering ethnographer James Mooney interviewed him extensively about Cherokee lifeways. The true story of Wil Usdi's life forms the basis for this historical novella, the final...
