Native American

Diversity: Native American
TITLE & AUTHOR	SYNOPSIS
Ancient Child MOMADAY, N	Set, a Native American raised far from the reservation by his adoptive father, returns to tribal lands for the funeral of his grandmother. When he meets Grey, a beautiful young medicine woman with a visionary gift, his world is turned upside down.
Badlands PORTER, M	Adam, a New York lawyer, comes to the Badlands to help the magnetic, complex Henry Blackfoot protect the threatened burial sites of his Sioux ancestors.
Bean Trees KINGSOLVER, B	Taylor Greer flees her harsh life in Appalachia and heads west in this memorable novel of love and friendship, abandonment and belonging.
Bend In The River NAIPAUL, V	Salim, a young Indian man, moves to a town on a bend in the river of a recently independent nation in Africa. As Salim strives to establish his business, he comes to be closely involved with the fluid and dangerous politics of the newly created state, the remnants of the old regime clashing inevitably with the new.
Black Elk Speaks: Being The Life Story Of A Holy Man Of The Oglala Sioux NEIHARD, J	The life story and personal vision of a Sioux warrior and medicine man who lived through the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the massacre at Wounded Knee and the death of his people.
Canyons* PAULSEN, G	A mystical link forged between Brennan and the long-dead Apache, Coyote Runs, defies time in this supernatural adventure story.
Dakota Dream BENNETT, J	Determination, faith and a lot of crazy luck help Floyd make the journey to the Sioux reservation and embark on the sort of vision quest on which only Native Americans are allowed.
Education Of Little Tree CARTER, F	The inspirational and autobiographical memories of the author's Indian boyhood, with his Eastern Cherokee Hill Country grandparents in the 1930's.
Flying With The Eagle, Racing The Great Bear: Stories From Native North America BRACHAT, J	Celebrated collection of authentic tribal tales drawn from sixteen native North American cultures.
Fools Crow WELCH, J	Set in 1870, a young warrior named Fool's Crow has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. The young warrior sees the end of the Native American way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or humiliating accommodation.
Ghost Canoe* HOBBS, W	History, nature and suspense combine as Nathan MacAllister and Native American fisherman Lighthouse George explore the wild terrain of the Pacific Northwest to unlock the mystery of a shipwreck.
Green Grass, Running Water KING, T	The story of five Blackfoot Native Americans in the town of Blossom and its nearby reserve, whose very different lives nevertheless continually cross.
Growing Up Native American RILEY, P (ed.)	A bounty of Native American writers provides stories and essays on their cultural heritage and lifestyle.
Homeless Bird* WHELAN, G	13-year-old Koley enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage and suffers the destiny dictated by India's traditions.
House Made Of Dawn MOMADAY, N	Abel is a young Native American balanced on the edge of two worlds and about to fall. Home from WW II, he is caught between his family's traditions and the lure of the modern world.
I Heard An Owl Call My Name CRAVEN, M	The touching story of a young, mortally ill priest who spends the last days of his life working among the Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia.
Ishi, Last Of His Tribe KROEBER, T	The story of Ishi, the last survivor of the Yahi, a small tribe of Californian Indians, who hid from the white invaders in the early 1900's to die a natural death.
Island Of The Blue Dolphins* O'DELL, S	Haunting story of a Native American girl who spent eighteen years alone on a rocky island far off the coast of California in the early 1800's.
Jemmy HASSLER, J	When Jemmy's Chippewa mother dies, and her alcoholic father forces her to quit school to care for her younger brother and sister, she knows she has nothing in life to look forward to. Then she meets Otis Chapman, a famous painter, who discovers Jemmy's artistic talent and opens up a whole new world for her.
Join In: Multi-Ethnic Stories By Outstanding Writers For Young Adults GALLO, D (ed.)	Collection of short stories representing a wide variety of ethnic cultures, including African American, Asian, Hispanic and Native American.
Light In The Forest* RICHTER, C	The unforgettable story of a white boy raised by Native Americans and torn between the claims of blood and loyalty.
Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven ALEXIE, S	Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, presents contemporary life on the Spokane Indian Reservation through 22 linked stories.
Lost In The Barrens MOWAT, F	Awasin, a Cree Indian boy, and Jamie, a Canadian orphan living with his uncle, the trapper Angus Macnair, are enchanted by the magic of the great Arctic wastes. They set out on an adventure that proves longer and more dangerous than they could have imagined.
Love Medicine EDRICH, L	This is a powerful and poetic tale of Kashpaws and Lamartines, two Native American families caught up in a multigenerational drama of anger, magic and healing.
Music From A Place Called Half Moon OUGHTON, J	Edie Jo and her father fight anti-Native American tension in North Carolina in the 1950’s. Her friendship with Cherokee Fish will be one that she never forgets.
Nectar In A Sieve MARKANDAYA, K	The story of a simple woman in a village in India who, married as a child bride, worked with her husband to wrest a living from the ravaged land.
North Of Hope HASSLER, J	After twenty years in the priesthood, Father Frank Healy goes to Minnesota's Basswood Reservation to bring Catholicism to the Ojibway Indians. He finds only a few believers - and the woman from his past, Libby Girard. As events erupt in a tangle of drugs, despair, alcoholism and death, Healy is tested by his continuing love for Libby.
Passage To Little Bighorn KRETZER-MALVEHY, T	15-year-old Dakota, who has Lakota blood in him, is hurled back through time to meet his ancestor Sitting Bull and witness the massacre at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Pigs In Heaven KINGSOLVER, B	This is a sequel to The Bean Trees. Taylor Greer and her adopted Cherokee Indian daughter, Turtle, are on a trip to the Hoover Dam, where Turtle is the only person to see a man fall over the side. The rescue makes Turtle a heroine, but becoming a heroine engenders a new disaster.
Primrose Way KOLLER, J	In 1633 16-year-old Rebekah comes to know the Pawtucket people and questions whether these "savages" really need salvation. When she is attracted to the Pawtuckets’ defiant medicine man, she must make the most difficult choice of her life.
Reservation Blues ALEXIE, S	A mythic tale of an all-Indian rock band traveling from reservation bars to Seattle and on to Manhattan.
Revolutions Of The Heart QUALEY, M	Cory’s 17^th year is marked by her mother’s sudden death, the return of her hothead brother, her love for and romance with a Native American boy, and the eruption of bigotry in her small Wisconsin town.
Rising Voices: Writings Of Young Native Americans HIRSCHFELDER, A & SINGER, B	An astonishing collection of poems and essays written by young Native Americans.
Runs With Horses* BURKS, B	As a member of the last band of Apaches to resist capture by the US Government, 16-year-old Runs With Horses struggles to honor his training as a warrior in the face of the historical realities of 1886.
Saturnalia FLEISCHMAN, P	In 1682 William, a Narragansett Native American captured six years before in a raid, leads a successful life as a printer's apprentice. However, increasingly anxious, he searches the streets by night for his lost brother and a link to his past.
Shabanu: Daughter Of The Wind* STAPLES, S	The second daughter of a Pakistani family, Shabanu has been brought up with more freedom than most Muslim girls. Should she listen to the stirrings of her own heart when her family insists on an arranged marriage?
Sing Down The Moon* O'DELL, S	15-year-old Bright Morning tells the story of the forced migration of the Navajos from their homeland.
Sister Of My Heart DIVAKANI, C	Since their birth in India, cousins Sudha and Anjou have been bonded in ways even their mothers cannot comprehend. When a dark family secret suddenly shatters this connection, the two travel different paths until a tragedy reminds them that they only have each other to turn to.
Stone Song: A Novel Of Crazy Horse BLEVINS, W	Scorned from childhood for his light hair, a man who spurned the love of finery and honors so characteristic of Lakota Sioux warriors, Crazy Horse led his people to their greatest victory.
Sweetgrass* HUDSON, J	Sweetgrass, a 15-year-old Blackfoot girl, longs to marry a young warrior, Eagle-Sun, but her father feels she is too young for marriage. Then a smallpox epidemic breaks out, and Sweetgrass is one of a few women left to fight for the survival of the tribe. It is a chance to prove her maturity, but is she strong enough to fight cold, hunger and disease?
Talking God* HILLERMAN, T	A grave robber and a corpse reunite Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee. As Leaphorn seeks the identity of a murder victim, Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancestors. As the layers of each case are peeled away, it becomes clear that they are connected.
Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories LESLEY, C	This anthology of Native American short stories includes contributionsby authors such as Louise Erdrich, Diane Glancy, Michael Dorris, N. Scott Momaday, Paula Gunn Allen and Mary Tallmountain.
Thief Of Time* HILLERMAN, T	When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Policemen Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the astonishing truth behind a mystifying series of horrific murders.
Tracks ERDRICH, L	Follows a North Dakota Indian tribe and their struggle to keep their land out of encroaching white society.
Twilight Boy* GREEN, T	Jesse Begay begins to investigate the strange circumstances surrounding a fire at his Navajo grandfather's hogan, even though the old man remains convinced that a "skinwalker" is haunting him.
Two Old Women: An ALAska Legend Of Betrayal, Courage, And Survival WALLIS, V	Abandoned by their tribe during a fierce winter famine in the Alaskan wilderness, two cantankerous elderly Athabascan women learn to survive on their own in this moving depiction of life in the far north.
When The Legends Die BORLAND, H	An extraordinary novel about a young Native American boy left alone in the wilderness after his parents' deaths who resolves never to return to the white man's world that had condemned his father.
Where The Broken Heart Still Beats. The Story Of Cynthia Ann Parker MEYER, C	Having been taken as a child and raised by Comanche Indians, 34-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs for her Indian life and her only friend is her 12-year-old cousin Lucy.
Yellow Raft In Blue Water DORRIS, M	A fierce saga of three generations of Native American women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of kinship.
Zia O’DELL, S	A young Indian girl, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the mission, is helped by her Aunt Karana, whose story was told in Island of the Blue Dolphins

Diversity: Native American