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PETER BOWEN
Coyote Wind . . . Specimen Song. . . Cruzatte and Maria
Peter Bowen's Montana mysteries illuminate the history of the Metis, descendants of indigenous Canadian tribes and the French and Scottish voyageurs. Gabriel Du Pre, a hardliving Metis cattle brand inspector and fiddler of considerable skill, is Bowen's colorful and somewhat reluctant sleuth.

MARGARET COEL
The Eagle Catcher . . . The Ghost Walker . . . The Spirit Woman . . . Killing Raven . . . The Drowning Man
Wyoming, Wind River Reservation mysteries with Arapaho lawyer, Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley

JAMES D. DOSS
The Shaman Sings . . . The Shaman Laughs . . . Grandmother Spider . . . The Witch's Tongue . . . Stone Butterfly
With Southern Colorado Ute lawman, Charlie Moon, his shaman aunt, Daisy Perika, and policeman, Scott Parris.

JEAN HAGER
The Ravenmocker . . . The Spirit Caller
With Native American Advocacy League investigator, Molly Bearclaw.

The Grandfather Medicine . . . Ghostland . . . Masked Dancers
Buckskin, Oklahoma mysteries with half-Cherokee Police Chief Mitchell Bushyhead and deputy, Virgil Rabbit.

TONY HILLERMAN
Readers are often surprised Tony Hillerman is not himself a Navajo, so extensive is his knowledge and so feeling is his portrayal of native culture and history in his mystery series featuring Tribal Police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and officer Jim Chee. Fans will gain even more appreciation of the author in reading his recent memoir: Seldom Disappointed.

The series begins with The Blessing Way
and is followed by:
Dance Hall of the Dead
Listening Woman
People of Darkness
The Ghostway
Skinwalkers
A Thief of Time
Talking God
The Jim Chee Mysteries (People of Darkness,
The Dark Wind and The Ghostway)
Coyote Waits
Sacred Clowns
The Fallen Man
The First Eagle
Hunting Badger

J. A. JANCE
Hour of the Hunter
The widow of a man accused of murdering a young Indian woman has attempted to find peace in working with young Native American children when she herself is threatened by a vicious killer. She enlists the help of a Papago wise woman and local police in this atmospheric mystery full of the tradition and legend of the Tohono O'othham Indians of Arizona.

RONALD LEVITSKY
Stone Boy
Lakota Saul Blue Sky's commitment to preserving sacred burial grounds on his property has placed him in conflict with local gaming interests and the townspeople of Bear Coat, South Dakota. When a man is found dead on Saul's property, civil liberties lawyer, Nate Rosen, is called on to defend him on a charge of murder.

MARDI OAKLEY MEDAWAR
Death at Rainy Mountain . . . Murder at Medicine Lodge . . .

The Ft. Larned Incident
It is 1868, tribal unrest is growing with the government's failure to honor recent treaty promises, and Oklahoma Kiowa healer, Tay-bodal's marriage is on the rocks. When the son of a chief who is a friend of his is murdered, Tay-bodl finds himself in a quandary as the accused is none other than the man who is interested in his wife.

KIRK MITCHELL
Cry Dance
Bureau of Indian Affairs investigator Emmett Quanah Parker, a Comanche detective with a troubled past, and rookie FBI Special Agent, Anna Turnipseed, A Modoc, investigate a murder in a section of the Grand Canyon controlled by the Havasupai nation.
Latest in series: Spirit Sickness

MARCIA MULLER
Listen to the Silence
On the death of her father, private eye Sharon McCone, is confronted with the mystery surrounding her own birth. When her mother refuses to reveal her birth parents, Sharon's quest to uncover her identity leads her to ancestral Shoshone lands in Montana and great pesonal danger.

LOUIS OWENS
The Sharpest Sight . . . Bone Game . . . Nightland
In Nightland, two half Cherokee ranchers, friends who are down on their luck, find a dead man with a suitcase containing $1 million, and someone wants it back. Owens fills these dark and suspenseful thrillers with Native Choctaw and Cherokee tradition.

THOMAS PERRY
Vanishing Act . . . Dance for the Dead . . . Shadow Woman . . . The Face Changers . . . Blood Money
Seneca Indian, Jane Whitefield, surgeon's wife and professional guide, helps people disappear using skills of her native ancestors.

RON QUERRY
The Death of Bernadette Lefthand
The use of forbidden witchcraft is suspected in the brutal slaying of Bernadette Lefthand, a beautiful and spirited
young wife and mother of Jicarilla Apache and Pueblo origins. More than a mystery, this moving tale explores the origin of evil in human affairs.

Bad Medicine
A medical mystery and a story of a clash of cultures set on Navajo lands in New Mexico.

DANA STABENOW
A Cold Day for Murder
In this first mystery in the series, Kate Shugak, a native Aleut and once the star investigator for the Anchorage D.A., has fled with her half-wolf dog, Mutt, to the Alaskan wilderness. Traumatized after a deadly battle with a child molester, Kate is called out of her seclusion to investigate the suspicious
disappearance of a park ranger.
A few of the many titles in the series: A Fatal Thaw . . . Dead In the Water . . . and Kate's latest: The Singing of the Dead.

RICHARD MARTIN STERN
Murder in the Walls
Santo Cristo police Lieutenant Johnny Ortiz, self-described misfit of Anglo-Spanish-Indian ancestry, uncovers the dark side of Southwestern life when he investigates the murder of a young prostitute.

AIMEE AND DAVID THURLO
Blackening Song . . . Death Walker . . . Bad Medicine
With Ella Clah, former FBI officer and now a special investigator with the Navajo tribal police force. In her latest adventure, Red Mesa, Ella's niece and assistant, Justine Goodluck, is found dead and Ella is the prime suspect.

CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO
Ogilvie, Tallant & Moon
Charles Spotted Moon, an urbane San Franciscan attorney, calls on the skills of his native ancestors of the Iron River Tribe when defending a beautiful doctor accused in the murder of her patient.

SCOTT YOUNG
The Shaman's Knife
Matthew "Matteesie" Kitologitak, an Inuk and inspector with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, enlists the help of a local shaman in solving a double murder in the Arctic village of Sanirarsipaaq.

INTERESTED IN NATIVE AMERCAN
HISTORY AND CULTURE?
Look in dewey decimal areas listed below:
History.......... 970.1
Spiritual and Religion.......... 299.7
Myths, legends and tales .......398.089, 398.2, 398.24
Our Reference staff will be pleased to assist you in locating materials to match your interests.

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updated November 8, 2006