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Amazing Blackfeet Thriller!

Looking for Smoke by K. A. Cobell

June 1, 2024 by LB Leave a Comment

This book was so incredible. If you liked The Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley, Looking for Smoke goes hand in hand as another novel where a teen girl has to figure out what is happening in her community. Looking for Smoke follows Mara Racette, recently moved to the Blackfeet Rez in Browning, Loren Arnoux, whose older sister went missing three months earlier, Brody Clark, who has a crush on Loren and the joker of their friend group, and Eli First Kill, whose biggest concern is […]

Of butterflies and spirits

A Blanket of Butterflies (The Spirit of Denendeh Volume One) by Richard Van Camp

As I Enfold You in Petals (The Spirit of Denendeh, Volume 2). by Richard Van Camp

July 19, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

A while back I found a reader copy request form. After asking and receiving it, I realized it was book two. I did find book one, but never got around to reading it. After receiving the second book, there was still no reading of it. I only realized why I had the delay the night I read them. They are books that must be read “at the right time,” otherwise you will not be ready for them. The books were A Blanket of Butterflies (The […]

“An Indian Affairs agent said, ‘The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?”

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

May 21, 2022 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

In one word: Injustice. (Bonus words: rage-inducing) This is my second read of this harrowing historical tale. When my local book club picked it out to tackle this year, I dove back in for another listen, and I was filled with just as much anger as the first time around. This book first came to me by way of my favorite podcast, Literary Disco. A quick plot summary: the people of the Osage Nation experienced the displacement and reloaction forced upon many indigenous peoples by […]

“The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.”

Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog

December 25, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Like many, my formal education didn’t contain much indigenous history, and certainly almost none about modern indigenous history. Reading Women task 8 was read a memoir by an Indigenous, First Nations, Native, or Aboriginal Woman which helped move Lakota Woman up my TBR (I had added it in 2015 for a similar Read Harder task but I read Rabbit-Proof Fence instead). It certainly didn’t hurt that it was also the Indigenous Reading Circle’s choice for November (the group that inspired the Reading Women task). Lakota […]

READ. THIS. BOOK. (Johnny Appleseed)

Johnny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

August 23, 2021 by msvreadsbooks 2 Comments

I’m using this as my “They/She/He” square in CBR13Bingo. The thesis of this review is: read this book! I’m going to do my best to describe it to you, but Joshua Whitehead’s words are so much more beautiful than anything I can come up with. This novel is gorgeous! Johnny is a young, Two-Spirit teenager living on the “rez” near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. And throughout the novel, Johnny tells of his experiences with becoming. With his supportive mother and his beloved kokum (grandmother), he explores […]

“That is the significant part of telling our own stories: by doing so, we demonstrate our cultural continuance.”

Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection Volumes 1-3 by Hope Nicholson, Elizabeth LaPensee, and Michael Sheyahshe, editors

July 30, 2021 by ElCicco 1 Comment

Cbr13bingo rep That quote in the title of these reviews comes from Michael Sheyahshe’s introduction to Moonshot: Volume 1 and it serves as a rallying cry for all three volumes. The Moonshot series, published in 2015, 2017 and 2019, is, as the title says, a collection of comics written and drawn by Indigenous writers and artists. These volumes were also published and distributed by Avani and Inhabit Education Books, which are Inuit owned. The reason for the volumes is pretty obvious — Indigenous people have […]

Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.

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