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  Release Date:  May 02, 2008 Publisher:  Harper Audio Format:  Audio Length:  11 hours 3 minutes Narrator:  Peter Francis James, Kathleen McInerney Genre:  Native American Fiction Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation. The descendants of Ojibwe and white intermarry, their lives intertwine; only the youngest generation, of mixed blood, remains unaware of the role the past continues to play in their lives. Evelina Harp is a witty, ambitious young girl, part Ojibwe, part white, who is prone to falling hopelessly in love. Mooshum, Evelina's grandfather, is a ...

Release Date:  December 27, 2015 Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Length:  16 hours 44 minutes Narrator:  Robin Wall Kimmerer Genre:  Native American/Botany/Nature Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   |  Paperback Synopsis:  As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In  Braiding Sweetgrass , Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation". As she explores these themes, she circles toward a central argument: The awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciproc...

Title : Death Scent by SV Wolf Publisher: Black Rose Writing 252 Pages Genre: Mystery - Native American Folklore I received this book through netgalley.com - it was released in April 2012 Synopsis:  Titan is a Death Dog (trained to detect human remains), belonging to an undisclosed sect of the Shawnee Nation, which provides special services to the highest levels of U.S. Law Enforcement. The sect members all possess superior skills, most involved with the tracking and sometimes killing, of the most grievous of perpetrators. Titan though is not only a specially trained dog, he also possess supernatural abilities such as seeing and speaking to the spirits of the dead. As he matures he slowly learns of new gifts and uses them as he is pressed into service through a series of murders of young women. Titan embarks along with his handler (daughter of the sect chief) and other sect members on a suspense filled hunt for the killer; tracking down the victims with Titan's fine ...