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Author
Publisher
New World Library
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Set in the Dakota High Plains during the drought-stricken summer of 1950, Lone Dog Road tells the story of two Lakota boys who embark upon a quest to replace their great-grandfather's channunpa (sacred pipe) after it was broken by a government agent"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1866, with the country barely recovered from the Civil War, new war breaks out on the western frontier--a clash of cultures between the Native tribes who have lived on the land for centuries and a young, ambitious nation. Colonel Henry Carrington arrives in Wyoming's Powder River Valley to lead the US Army in defending the opening of a new road for gold miners and settlers. Carrington intends to build a fort in the middle of critical hunting grounds,...
Author
Series
Days Without End volume book 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A dazzling new novel about memory and identity set in Paris, Tennessee in the aftermath of the American civil war from the Booker Prize shortlisted author. Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, finds herself growing up in an unconventional household on a farm in West Tennessee. Raised by her adoptive father John Cole and his brother-in-arms Thomas McNulty, this odd little family scrapes a living on Lige Magan's farm with the help...
5) Bitter rain
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Sheriff Kate Fox is still settling into her new role when Deputy Kyle Red Owl's sister, Shelly, vanishes from the nearby Lakota reservation. Convinced it's an "Indian issue," neighboring sheriffs are reluctant to get involved. Tempers flare-and Kate knows things are bound to get even more heated. But when Kate and Kyle start to gather evidence, they realize the case isn't at all what it seems. Their search for Shelly has uncovered deep-buried family...
Author
Publisher
7th Generation
Publication Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When seven Lakota sisters venture deep into the forest to gather chokecherries, they are surprised and chased by a giant bear. As they huddle together on a rock ledge and pray for help, the earth rises up, taking them out of reach of the bear. A great eagle rescues the Seven Sisters by taking them to the Star Nation, where they become the Pleiades star formation we see in the night sky"-- Provided by publisher
7) Lakota winds
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Janelle Taylor comes Lakota Winds, the first book in a magnificent Native American saga of a tribe, a family, and the struggle for survival that joins two hearts-and threatens to consume a nation.
When his wife and young son are slaughtered by Crow warriors, Wind Dancer is let embittered and lonely. Intent only on duty to his people, he never imagines that it will force him to take another woman into his life.
Chumani...
8) Lakota dawn
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Publication Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Janelle Taylor, comes her most compelling Native American saga. Taking you to an unforgettable time and place, the Great Plains of 1854, this magnificent novel of a proud warrior who must reclaim his heritage and the woman he is destined for, will move you with its breathtaking beauty and spellbinding passion. . .
LAKOTA DAWN
Cloud Chaser was merely a boy of ten when a cruel twist of fate took him away from...
Author
Publication Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Alice's Trading Post is the story of an untamable, unforgettable woman with a wry wit who lives 103 adventurous years. She survives all the west could throw at a woman, fights to be herself, live free, and find love. Treat her with respect, you walk away safe. If not, there will be consequences. Alice never met her young Army of the West officer father stationed in Oregon Territory, 1860s. She's raised like a boy by her Canadian trapper stepfather...
Author
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Publication Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Land of Wolves finds Joseph Foster with Molly as they settle into a new-found life in the hills of Tennessee. But Abraham Lincoln's former bodyguard, the man who saved the President's life, cannot escape the Consortium as they come roaring back, killing his mother, abducting his daughter all to coerce his Congressional testimony on their behalf. Instead, Joseph and Molly strike the Consortium in their own safe haven of New York City. In a Bonnie...
Author
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Publication Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
Custer is dead. Sitting Bull is dead. And the famous 7th Cavalry is on the march. Then came the Ghost Dance, a spiritual call of Indian resistance, that spread like a dry fire among the Lakota Sioux. When the army commanders sent the murderous orders through, it became a matter of Sioux defiance to oppose them. Although the tragic outcome was clear, not a man changed his mind.
Author
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Why kill a human being with an antique muzzle-loader? Each year in the entire country, only a handful of people die that way, and half the deaths are self-inflicted. In either case, loading and firing a flintlock or cap-and-ball weapon takes way too much time, fuss, and expertise. A pretty young teacher is killed by a ball from a Revolutionary War-era musket during an encampment of historical reenactors on a river in Porcupine County. Sheriff Steve...
Author
Publisher
Forge, Tom Doherty Associates
Publication Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Bitterroot: "Mountain man Barnaby Skye agrees to take a Quaker missionary, Dr. William Penn Sitgreaves, along with his wife Abigail and his party, to Owen's Fort in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana. There, the Quakers intend to begin a mission to the Native Americans. Skye quickly discovers that Dr. Sitgreaves, far from being a soft man, has a backbone of steel-and he'll need it to found a mission in the wilds." --Amazon.com.
Sundance: "Along...


