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2021., Soho Crime Call No: NL MYSTERY F REN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In small-town Minnesota in the 1970s, it's the tail-end of the age of peace and love, but 19-year-old Cash Blackbear isn't feeling it. Bored by freshman English 101 and even less interested in the increasingly popular American Indian Movement, all she wants is to play pool, learn judo, chain-smoke, and be left alone. But then one of Cash's classmates vanishes without a trace, and Cash can't stop dreaming about terrified girls begging for help. Plus, she has an unexpected houseguest: a brother she didn't know existed has moved into her living room, and he's having violent Vietnam flashbacks that Cash doesn't know how to handle. When Sheriff Wheaton, the man responsible for rescuing Cash from foster care, asks for Cash's help with the case of the missing girl, she must overcome her apprehension about leaving her hometown . . . along with her rule never to get in somebody else's car. Although Cash has been in big trouble before, this might just be her biggest trouble yet. Cash is whip-smart and tough-talking, as brave as she is vulnerable. Surrounded by a colorful cast of characters ranging from ditzy hippies to aggressive drunkards, and constantly being underestimated by the white administrators in charge of her day-to-day college existence, Cash must navigate not only being a Native American teenager living on her own for the first time-but also what responsibility she has to the other people in her life. Written in wry, fast-moving prose, Girl Gone Missing paints a vivid portrait of the 1970s and speaks to a powerful truth about the treatment of Native women and girls in America"--
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2017., Cinco Puntos Press Call No: NL MYSTERY F REN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: A Cash Blackbear Mystery Volume: 1Summary Note: "Cash and Sheriff Wheaton make for a strange partnership. He pulled her from her mother's wrecked car when she was three. He's kept an eye out for her ever since. It's a tough place to live-northern Minnesota along the Red River. Cash navigated through foster homes, and at thirteen was working farms. She's tough as nails-five feet two inches, blue jeans, blue jean jacket, smokes Marlboros, drinks Bud Longnecks. Makes her living driving truck. Playing pool on the side. Wheaton is big lawman type. Scandinavian stock, but darker skin than most. He wants her to take hold of her life. Get into Junior College. So there they are, staring at the dead Indian lying in the field. Soon Cash was dreaming the dead man's cheap house on the Red Lake Reservation, mother and kids waiting. She has that kind of power. That's the place to start looking. There's a long and dangerous way to go to find the men who killed him. Plus there's Jim, the married white guy. And Longbraids, the Indian guy headed for Minneapolis to join the American Indian Movement. Marcie R. Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Anishinabe Nation. She is a mother, grandmother, writer, and performance artist. A recipient of the Loft's Inroads Writers of Color Award for Native Americans, she studied under Anishinabe author Jim Northrup. Her first children's book is Pow Wow Summer (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2014). Murder on the Red River is her debut novel"--
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c1996., Juvenile, Carolrhoda Books Call No: 394.26 POWWOW Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Travels with the Downwind family to two powwows, and shows how this Anishinabe family celebrates the circle of life and the traditions of their people through the ceremonies and dances of the powwow.
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[2013], Juvenile, Minnesota Historical Society Press Call No: 394 .308997333 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Travels with the Downwind family to two powwows, and shows how this Anishinabe family celebrates the circle of life and the traditions of their people through the ceremonies and dances of the powwow.
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[2013]., Primary, Minnesota Historical Society Press Call No: NL E REN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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2022., Soho Press Call No: NL MYSTERY F REN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Cash Blackbear MysterySummary Note: Set in 1970s Minnesota on the White Earth Reservation, Pinckley Prize–winner Marcie R. Rendon’s gripping new mystery follows Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman, as she attempts to discover the truth about the disappearances of Native girls and their newborns. A snowmelt has sent floodwaters down to the fields of the Red River Valley, dragging the body of an unidentified Native woman into the town of Ada. The only evidence the medical examiner recovers is a torn piece of paper inside her bra: a hymn written in English and Ojibwe. Cash Blackbear, a 19-year-old, tough-as-nails Ojibwe woman, sometimes uses her special abilities to help Sheriff Wheaton, her guardian, with his investigations. When Cash sees the hymn, she knows her search for justice for this anonymous victim will lead her somewhere she hasn’t been in over a decade: the White Earth Reservation, a place she once called home. When Cash happens upon two small graves in the yard of a rural, “speak-in-tongues kinda church,” she is pulled into the lives of the pastor and his wife while yet another Native woman turns up dead and her newborn is nowhere to be found.
