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Similarly, Jack Weatherford entertainingly examines ignored and forgotten contributions to medicine, ecology, architecture, agriculture, and democracy in Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World. This Day in North American Indian History is a delightful and useful reference book for your shelf—in addition to biographical and historical information, it contains a day calendar of major events in Native American history for both American continents , from the achievements of ancient empires to modern-day Native American activism.
David Grann uncovers a particularly dark chapter of U. In the s, the Osage Indian reservation be- came an unexpected boom town when oil was discovered on reservation land— the Osage became the richest people per capita in the world. Then, someone started killing them off, one by one. You can feel the tension between the traditions of the Native American past and modern Native American existence on every page.
Honestly, you could just go read the complete works of Sherman Alexie and be glad you did. This list is from the fall issue of HSL. High School On the th anniversary of the Medicine Lodge Treaty a trio of problematic agreements that forced the Plains Indians onto reservations ensure that your high school U. Making the Shift from Middle to High School. World History at the Movies. As my own great-great-great grandmother walked and survived the Trail of Tears, I felt especially drawn to Maritole, the narrator, who serves as a voice for all the women as they are forced from their homes.
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Though Maritole serves as primary narrator, there are other voices throughout the book: A very good novel detailing one of the saddest and cruelest episodes in U. A book about powerful Native American women, Shell Shaker by LeAnne Howe deals with the murder of two Choctaw chiefs, as well as decolonization and corruption, as told in two time periods, modern day and years earlier. The first chief, Red Shoes, was killed by his own people, while in present day a Choctaw woman named Auda Billy is accused of murdering the second. How the two murders are connected, and how the spirit, Shell Shaker, plays a role is what motivates the reader through this urgent book.
Howe is a brilliant stylist, and this novel shows it. Erdrich's Tracks is the third in a series of family saga novels, the first two being Love Medicine and Beet Queen , respectively.
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Tracks is my favorite, though, for its language and vivid imagery. Told in alternating narrators, Nanapush and Pauline, Erdrich brilliantly threads their narratives together into a powerful story. In Nanapush's sections, he is talking to his granddaughter, Lulu, in an attempt to reunite her with her mother, who had sent Lulu off to government school when she was young.
The second narrator, Pauline, tells of her connection to Lulu's mother and how Pauline became jealous of her, which begins a descent into witchery and madness. I can practically walk into Osage County from my house, which is eerie to think about when I consider everything that happens in Mathews's haunting novel. As a mixed-blood Osage, Challenge Chal struggles to find his identity among the Osage tribe and the white society, but what's most interesting about this book is the impact the discovery of oil on Osage land had on the tribe, and how they were affected and controlled by money, by oil.
Lots and lots of oil, which is still very prevalent in Oklahoma today.
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Even though we follow Tayo through parts of his childhood and his adult life in the war, the book also focuses on three evil spiritual entities who try to destroy Tayo. Real world threads with spiritual world, with medicine men, Spirits, and all sorts of strange witchery. Ceremony is a book about family, war, mental health, and most importantly—healing. A coming of age story about Omishito, a teenage girl belonging to the Taiga tribe, torn between the harsh modern world and the spiritual world of her Aunt Ama, who kills an endangered panther the tribe considers sacred.
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What follows is a trial involving her aunt and the tribe. This list should include one book that stands apart from the others in both style and tone, and that book is The Fast Red Road: If the name sounds quirky, there are even quirkier ones: Birdfinger, Patience Patience, and Psychic Sally, to name a few.
Sadly, Louis Owens committed suicide in , but he left behind some great books, including The Sharpest Sight , which is about a Vietnam veteran confined to a mental hospital after murdering his girlfriend. His body is later found in a river.
While the mystery is unfolding, the novel also takes on a magical-realist element, with ghosts and nature and spirits inhabiting its world. A harrowing and gut-wrenching novel.
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