By Barbara Kingsolver

When Taylor Greer hits the road she has no real destination, only to get as far from Kentucky as possible. By the time she ends up in Arizona, she has inherited a three–year–old Cherokee girl from an Indian woman she met in a bar.

By Leslie Marmon Silko
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

Deeply scarred Tayo, a WWII veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation.

By Louise Erdrich

Horrified when he accidentally kills his best friend's 5–year–old–son while hunting, Landreaux Iron gives away his own young son to his friend's family according to ancient tradition, a decision that helps both families reach a tenuous peace that is threatened by a vengeful adversary.

By Louise Erdrich

The lives and destinies of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines intertwine on and around a North Dakota Indian reservation from 1934 to 1984, in an authentic tale of survival, tenacity, tradition, injustice, and love.

By Sherman Alexi

Presents a collection of poetry and prose reflecting on contemporary Native American life.

By Louise Erdrich

Unaware of a violent event that marked the beginning of her mixed ancestry, ambitious young Evelina Harp, a part-Ojibwe, part-white girl prone to falling hopelessly in love, learns disturbing truths from her gifted storyteller grandfather.

By Louise Erdrich
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian, Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Tuesday, December 17, 2013. 7:30 PM.

"When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, fourteen-year old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family (From the Pubisher)."

By Tommy Orange
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, March 12th 2019 7:30pm

A novel that grapples with the complex history and identity of Native Americans follows twelve characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow.

By Tommy Orange
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

A novel that grapples with the complex history and identity of Native Americans follows twelve characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow.