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Death at Lame Deer

Kim — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:16:30 +0000

It is early spring of 1890, and the Northern Cheyenne are starving. Corruption within the Bureau of Indian Affairs, mismanagement of funds and resources, and a shortage of wild game lead to an act of desperation. Hungry Cheyenne hunters leave their reservation to poach a settler’s cattle, a white man is killed, and tensions between the Cheyenne, local law enforcement, and white ranchers quickly escalate. A young mixed-blood interpreter, Willis Rowland, known among the Cheyenne as Long Forehead, is deputized by a group of prominent white Montanans and the Custer County sheriff to secretly collect information about the Cheyenne community. Using his knowledge of both cultures and languages, Willis begins uncovering clues about the murder and in the process discovers a gang of white outlaws hiding out on the reservation. When a second white settler is murdered, the simmering tensions boil over, leading to a violent clash between the U.S. Army and the Northern Cheyenne. Based on years of research, Forrest Dunning’s Death at Lame Deer is a riveting historical mystery that brings a long-forgotten chapter in Montana history vividly back to life. Previously published as Between Two Tribes, this new edition has been substantially revised to reflect new information and cultural insights surrounding the tragic events it depicts.

The History of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:25:34 +0000

Thunder Over the Ochoco

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:25:33 +0000

Ridgeline

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:25:33 +0000

The Death of Jim Loney

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:25:32 +0000

James Welch never shied away from depicting the lives of Native Americans damned by destiny and temperament to the margins of society. The Death of Jim Loney is no exception. Jim Loney is a mixed-blood, of white and Indian parentage. Estranged from both communities, he lives a solitary, brooding existence in a small Montana town. His nights are filled with disturbing dreams that haunt his waking hours. Rhea, his lover, cannot console him; Kate, his sister, cannot penetrate his world. In sparse, moving prose, Welch has crafted a riveting tale of disenfranchisement and self-destruction.

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:25:32 +0000

In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realizxsm to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spoke Indian Reservation. These 22 interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his uncoscious parents hoping that the alcohol seeping through their skins might help him sleep. Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who tells his stories long after people stop listening, and Jimmy Many Horses, dying of cancer, who writes letters on stationary that reads “From the Death Bed of James Many Horses III,” even though he actually writes them on his kitchen table. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, a dn most poetically, between modern Indians and the traditions of the past.

Thunder Over the Ochoco

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:25:32 +0000

Out There Somewhere

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:25:31 +0000

The devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe, based on the story of apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Juan Diego, an Indian neophyte, at the hill of Tepeyac in December 1531, is one of the most important formative religious and national symbols in the history of Mexico. In this first work ever to examine in depth every historical source of the Guadalupe apparitions, Stafford Poole traces the origins and history of the account, and in the process challenges many commonly accepted assumptions and interpretations. Poole finds that, despite common belief, the apparition account was unknown prior to 1648, when it was first published by a Mexican priest. And then, the virgin became the predominant devotion not of the Indians, but of the criollos, who found in the story a legitimization of their own national aspirations and an almost messianic sense of mission and identity. Poole finds no evidence of a contemporary association of the Virgin of Guadalupe with the Mexican goddess Tonantzin, as is frequently assumed, and he rejects the common assertion that the early missionaries consciously substituted Guadalupe for a preconquest deity.

Spirit Horse of the Rockies

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:25:31 +0000

‘-Born in Montana. Kentucky Derby winner. 1889.

No Resting Place

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:25:30 +0000

This stirring novel about the Trail of Tears–the forced removal of the Cherokee nation from Georgia to an internment camp and then to Texas–received resounding critical praise nationwide. Now in paperback.