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.

It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?...

The stunning first novel in Louise Erdrich's Native American series, Love Medicine tells the story of two families, the Kashpaws and the Larmartines. Written in Erdrich's uniquely poetic, powerful style, it is a multi-generational portrait of strong men and women caught in an unforgettable drama of anger, desire, and the healing power that is love medicine.

When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, fourteen-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family.

Presents a brief history of the Chippewa Indians describing their customs and traditions and how they are maintained in the modern world.

"In small-town Minnesota in the 1970s, it's the tail-end of the age of peace and love, but 19-year-old Cash Blackbear isn't feeling it. Bored by freshman English 101 and even less interested in the increasingly popular American Indian Movement, all she wants is to play pool, learn judo, chain-smoke, and be left alone. But then one of Cash's classmates vanishes without a trace, and Cash can't stop dreaming about terrified girls begging for help. Plus,...

"In eight beautifully crafted Ojibwe stories, Grover's characters, members of the LaForce family, learn to survive Indian boarding school, a brutal marriage, and even how to set pins in a bowling alley, all the while taking care to remember the ancestors and the road home. Whether home is the mythic Mozhay Point Indian Reservation, a clapboard house, or a horse paradise of woods near Duluth, Minnesota, Grover's The Dance Boots is an Ojibwe jingle...