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Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibwe man in a treatment centre for alcoholics, goes back over his childhood, his years in a residential school and the hockey that saved him for a while.
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The White Girl
In a small Australian country town in the 1960s, Odette Brown, an Aboriginal grandmother raising her granddaughter Sissy, sees the new policeman taking an interest in the girl's fair skin.
Medicine Walk
Franklin Starlight, sixteen, is summoned by the father who never raised him, dying of drink, who asks to be taken into the British Columbia backcountry and buried in the warrior way.
Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange widens There There across 150 years, from a survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre through an Indian boarding school to the Oakland family still reeling from the powwow shooting.
Monkey Beach
Lisamarie Hill, a young Haisla woman in Kitamaat, sets out by speedboat to look for her brother Jimmy, lost at sea, and remembers her family and the spirits she has seen since childhood.
Bodies of Light
Maggie Sullivan, taken into care as a small child in Melbourne, moves through foster homes and institutions into an adult life lived under other names.
Solar Storms
Angela Jensen, seventeen, scarred and raised in foster homes, comes back to the boundary waters between Minnesota and Canada to find the women of her family, as a dam project threatens their land.
She's Come Undone
Dolores Price narrates forty years of her own life, from a television-fed New England childhood through rape and obesity and a bad marriage into something that finally looks like a self.
The Round House
A thirteen-year-old boy on an Ojibwe reservation seeks justice after his mother is brutally attacked, navigating a legal system designed to fail Native people.
Split Tooth
A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s, through cruelty, alcohol and wonder, until the northern lights and the animals of the Arctic draw her into something mythic.
Ceremony
Tayo, a young Laguna Pueblo man, comes home from the Second World War, where he was a prisoner of the Japanese, sick in body and spirit, and looks for healing in the old ceremonies.
Journey to the Stone Country
Annabelle Beck, leaving her marriage in Melbourne, goes home to north Queensland and travels into the hinterland with Bo Rennie, a Jangga man she knew as a child, to survey Aboriginal sites.
The River Is Waiting
Corby Ledbetter, laid off from his advertising job, is looking after his two-year-old twins while his wife teaches, and hiding an addiction to alcohol and pills, until a moment's carelessness at home ends in tragedy.