north dakota

"8-year-old Aslan arrived in North Dakota to help stop a pipeline. A few months later he returned -- and saw the whole world watching. [Readers are invited to] read about his inspiring experiences in the Oceti Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock"--OCLC.

Cassie Dewell, a new detective in Grimstad, the oil capital of North Dakota, realizes that she may be in over her head when a gang war heats up, the temperature drops to 30 below, and twelve year old Kyle Westergaard, who witnessed a car accident and took a mysterious bundle from the scene, keeps showing up where he doesn't belong.

"It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom--it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal? Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Pixie--'Patrice'--Paranteau has no desire to wear herself down on a husband and kids. She works at the factory, earning barely enough to support her mother and brother . . . But Patrice needs every penny to get if she's ever going to get to Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera"--OCLC.

Examines the lives of several generations of families who live on and around a Chippewa reservation in North Dakota, following various characters who suffer due to government policies, poverty, alcoholism, and other problems.

When recovered alcoholic Landreaux Irons accidently shoots his neighbors five-year-old son, he seeks the advice of an Ojibwe tribe and then offers his own son LaRose in atonement.

Summoned by his grandmother, Lipsha returns to the reservation where he falls in love with Shawnee Ray. He finds himself at crossroads torn between success and meaning, love and money, the future and the past.

The author tells about her family's life on the North Dakota prairie of the early 1900s, focusing on the story of her mother Carrine, who as a single young Norwegian-American woman staked out her claim in the unsettled land.

Timothy Murphy chronicles the experiences he has had while working on his Minnesota farm.

Spirits of the 1860s, Ghost Horse and Red Dress, seek to be reunited through an Indian couple of the 1980s.