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First Nations Reading List

Ble     Blevins, Win                    Stone Song: A Novel of the Life
                                        of Crazy Horse
Bro     Brown, J.P.S.                   The Forests of the Night
                                        (Mexican Serranos)
Bru     Bruchac, Jamie                  Dawn Land (Abenaki)
Bur     Burleson, Frank                 Night of the Cougar (Apache)
Cam     Cameron, Anne                   Dzelarhons: Myths of the
                                        Northwest Coast
Cam     Cameron, Anne                   Child of Her People (Plains)
Cam     Cameron, Anne                   Daughters of Copper Woman
                                        (Van. Island)
Cam     Cameron, Kate                   Legend Makers (Florida Tribes) 
Cap     Caputo, Philip                  Indian Country (Ojibwa - Vietnam)
Car     Carr, A.A.                      Eye Killers (Navajo Monster
                                        slayer meets Vampire legend)
Coe     Coel, Margaret                  The Dream Stalker (Arapaho)
Col     Coldsmith, Don                  Child of the Dead (smallpox
                                        epidemic - Plains)
Col     Coldsmith, Don                  Medicine Hat (Lakota)
Col     Coldsmith, Don                  Tallgrass (Comache)
Coo     Cooper, James F.                The Deerslayer (Delaware)
Cot     Cotton, Ralph                   Powder River (Dakota)
Cou     Coulton, Beatrice               In Search of April Raintree
                                        (mixed blood / identity)
Cra     Craven, Margaret                I Heard the Owl Call My Name 
                                        (Tsawataineuk)
Del     Deloria, Ella Cara              Waterlily (Sioux)
Don     Donnell, Susan                  Pocahontas
Dos     Doss, James                     The Shaman Sings (Tohono O'otam)
Dos     Doss, James                     The Shaman's Bones
                                        (Tohono O'otam)
Dos     Doss, James                     The Sharman's Bones (Tohono O'otam)
Dur     Durham, Charlies                The Last Exile (Chippewa) 
Erd     Erdich, Louise                  Tracks (Chippewa)
Gut     Guttenberg, Elyse               Daughter of Shaman
Hag     Hager, Jean                     Seven Black Stones (Cherokee)
Har     Harrison, Sue                   Brother Wind (Alaska)
Har     Harrison, Sue                   Cry of the Wind (Alaska)
Hil     Hillerman, Tony                 The First Eagle (Navajo)
Hil     Hillerman, Tony                 Coyote Waits (Navajo)
Hil     Hillerman, Tony                 Finding Moon (Navajo)
Hou     Houston, James                  Eagle Song: An Indian Saga
                                        Based on True Events (Van.Island)
Joh     Johnston, Terry C.              Ride the Moon Down (Crow)
Kin     Kinsella, W.P.                  Dance Me Outside
Kin     Kinsella, W.P.                  Born Indian
Kin     Kinsella, W.P.                  The Secret of the Northen Lights
                                        (Hobbema)
Les     Lesley, Craig                   River Song (Nez Perce)
Lud     Ludlum, Robert                  The Road to Omaha (Wopotamis)
McC     McCall, Dan                     Messenger Bird (New
                                        Mexico reservation)
McM     McMurtry, Larry                 Comanche Moon (Comanche)
McM     McMurtry, Larry                 Dead Man's Walk (Comanche)
Mos     Moss, Robert                    The Firekeeper (Mohawk)
Mos     Moss, Robert                    The Interpreter (Mohawk)
Mun     Munn, Vella                     Seminole Song (Seminole)
Roe     Roesch, E.P.                    Ashana (Dena'ina)
Pow     Power, Susan                    The Grass Dancer (Sioux)
Que     Querry, Ron                     Death of Bernadette Lefthand (Apache)
Shu     Shuler, Linda Lay               Let the Drum Speak: A Novel of
                                        Ancient America
Sta     Straley, John                   The Woman Who Married a
                                        Bear (Tlingit)
War     Warren, Patricia Nell           One Is the Sun (Yucatan)
Wan     Wangerin, Walter Jr.            The Crying for a Vision (Lakota)
Wel     Welch, James                    The Heartsong of Charging Elk (Oglala/Buffalo Bill Show)
Wes     West, Paul                      The Place in Flowers Where Pollen
                                        Rests (Hopi)
Whe     Wheeler, Richard S.             Dark Passage (Crow/Blackfoot)
Wie     Wiebe, Rudy                     The Scorched-Wood People:
                                        A Novel (Cdn. Northwest)
Updated Aug 2001

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