north dakota

Toni Jensen grew up around guns: As a girl, she learned to shoot birds in rural Iowa with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. As an adult, she's had guns waved in her face near Standing Rock, and felt their silent threat on the concealed-carry campus where she teaches. And she has always known that in this she is not alone. As a Metis woman, she is no stranger to the violence enacted on the bodies of Indigenous women, on Indigenous land, and the ways it is hidden, ignored, forgotten.

Provides background information on the conflict between Native Americans on the Standing Rock Reservation and the plans to build the Dakota Access crude oil pipeline across the river that provides drinking water to the reservation.

"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.