"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 collection from Cobblestone publications of histories and introductions; stories, legends, poems, word lore, and folktales; projects; activities and games; and recipes of Native American peoples.

Signed by Kenneth E. Black, Chairman, Otoe-Missouria Tribe.

Two Native American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuni. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig-and a steel hypodermic needle. And the...

Signed by George Miller, Jr., President of the Kenai Natives Association.

Signed by Wendell Chino, President of the Mescalero Apache Tribe.

Signed by Orval L. Kirk, Tribal Chairman of the Kickapoo Nation.

Signed by Louis Andrews, Chairman of Kalispel Tribe.

Signed by Lewis H. Barlow, Chief of the Ottawa Indian Tribe.