Frank Carlson Library

"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...

A retelling of twenty-two legends about the creation of the world from a variety of California Indian tribes.

When a small, serious boy joins Amanda on the park bench, she remembers that once she was small and serious too, but she had Grandfather--and his wonderful stories.

Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Pomo Indians, covering their daily life, customs, relations with the government and others, and more.

An introduction to the history, social life and customs, and present status of the Gabrielino Indians, a tribe whose homelands centered in present day Southern California and included several offshore islands.

With the help of other animals, Wise Old Coyote manages to acquire fire from the wicked Yellow Jacket sisters.

In 1874, six-year-old Andi and her friend Riley get lost on the ranch where they live, but a Yokut Indian nearby helps them find their way back.

Focuses on the achievements of the eighteenth-century Spanish missionary who was one of the early explorers of California.

"Miguelito Robles is as solid as the mighty oak from which he takes his name in this passionate sequel to Maria Inés, previously published by Five Star. 1850s' pastoral California simmers with strife as desperate ex-gold miners descend from the Sierra Nevada. The courts favor Americans over Spanish landowners. Californio sons defend their family estates and their sisters' honor against Yanqui riffraff. Miguelito is a brash Indian youth trapped between...