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1) Wind river
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
3) Jimmy P
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France during WWII, is admitted to Topeka Military Hospital in Kansas, an institution specializing in mental illness. Although he does not suffer any psychological causes for his painful symptoms, he is diagnosed as schizophrenic. Nevertheless, the hospital management decides to seek the opinion of Georges Devereux, a French anthropologist, psychoanalyst and specialist in Native American culture....
4) Hostiles
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne war chief and his family through dangerous territory back to tribal lands.
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
On his 9th birthday, Omri receives a cupboard that magically brings his 3 in. toy Indian Little Bear to life. They bond, embarking on an amazing adventure, until Omri's friend Patrick brings a 6-shooting cowboy to life and the secret is in danger of being revealed.
Author
Series
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.
9) Spirit rider
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A teenager boy who has been in foster homes for ten years, is placed back on his family's reservation with his grandfather, where he struggles to fit in.
10) Flap
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
widescreen.
Language
English
Description
An alcholic ne'er-do-well leads a revolt against the federal government when a construction company building a road through a reservation.
11) Broken arrow
Language
English
Description
Tom believes the Apaches are treated unfairly. After befriending their leader Cochise and arranging a truce, he is called upon by an Army General to negotiate a government peace treaty, but later is the target of a renegade ambush.
12) Road to Paloma
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The beautiful journey of Wolf, a Native American being pursued by the FBI for taking the law into his own hands after his mother is raped and killed. Wolf sets out across the American west, discovering new friendships and lost loves, riding toward the Teton mountain range, where he will spread his mother's ashes.
13) Fry bread
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning, evocative depiction of a modern Native American family that tells a tale of a family coming together to create a meaningful meal and new memories.
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The 3 ninjas, Rocky, Colt and Tum Tum, are spending the summer with their martial artist grandfather when their friendship with a local Native American girl, Jo, pulls them into a modern-day battle between the local Native Americans and a corrupt businessman.
16) Flaming star
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Digitally transferred anamorphic widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Set in west Texas in the years after the Civil War, this is the story of a half-breed who's mother is an Indian and whose father is white who is torn between two worlds. After an Indian uprising, his problems mount as he is feared by the whites, mistrusted by Indians and hunted by both.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Based on Scott O'Dell's beloved children₂s classic is the heartwarming adventure of a nineteenth-century Native American girl who becomes stranded on a remote island off the California coast. Karana is forced to flee the island of her birth with the rest of her tribe when hunters threaten the area. Realizing her young brother has been left behind, she jumps ship and swims back to the island, where the two attempt to survive in solitude against staggering...
18) Powwow highway
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
With nothing in common but their Native American heritage, two men begin a cross-country adventure filled with comedy and drama.
19) Go West
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
[Go West] A hapless young man, heeding the expansionist call of Horace Greeley, idealistically hops a freight train to meet his destiny. [The scarecrow] Follows the unhealthy competition between roommates vying for the attentions of a young lady. [The paleface] Buster helps a Native American tribe defend their land from greedy developers.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
An eye-opening account of what it is like to be a vulnerable teenager in the modern world. Through the eyes of Larry Sole, a First Nation teenager filled with bravado and angst, comes the story of three unlikely friends isolated in a small rural town discovering what they can of life and love and racial tensions, in a world by a dark mystery from his past.
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