The WORST of Native American Fiction
Discover the worst in Native American fiction with this critical list of poorly written and culturally insensitive books. Avoid these misrepresentations and find authentic voices instead.
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The Fire Carrier
by Jean Hager
While Police Chief Mitch Bushyhead investigates a dead body in the Oklahoma woods, he's bombarded with callers claiming to have seen the Fire Carrier, an evil spirit of Cherokee legend, near the body. Back in town, other tensions are beginning to boil.
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Blackening Song
by Aimée Thurlo
Set in the Navaho Nation, this novel launches a new series starring Navajo FBI agent Ella Clah that combines modern investigative techniques with traditional Native American beliefs. "Affaire de Coeur's" five star review says ""Blackening Song" is the first novel of a spectacular Native American murder mystery series starring a powerfully compelling female protagonist".
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The Dream Stalker
by Margaret Coel
When a woman lawyer teams up with a Catholic priest to stop the building of a nuclear storage facility on an Indian reservation she must cope with death threats, an attempt on her life, and an intense attraction to the priest.
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The Enemy Way
by Aimée Thurlo
Now returned to the reservation, Ella Clah uses her FBI skills to Anglo vices like gangs from disturbing the Navajo and to protect her mother and and an old friend from Native culprits as well.
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The Haunted Mesa
by Louis L'Amour
The Navajo called them the Anasazi: an enigmatic race of southwestern cliff dwellers. For centuries, the sudden disappearance of this proud and noble people has baffled historians. Summoned to a dark desert plateau by a desperate letter form an old friend, renowned investigator Mike Raglan is drawn into a world of mystery, violence, and explosive revaltion. Crossing the border beyond the laws of man and nature, he will learn the astonishing legacy of the Anasazi -- but not without a price. Set in the contemporary Southwest, "The Haunted Mesa draws on Louis L'Amour's extensive knowledge of Indian lore and mysticism. In this extraordinary book L'Amour tells a tale of epic adventure that takes his readers across the most extraordinary frontier they have ever encountered.
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Coyote Returns
by Micah S. Hackler
Sheriff Cliff Lansing and his deputy, Gabe Hanna, battle cover-up efforts surrounding the murder of a Navajo leader and discover a link between the victim and a multi-million dollar timber deal. Original.
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Red Mesa
by Aimée Thurlo
Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is forced to go on the run, with the FBI and her fellow Navajo Police in hot pursuit, after she is accused in the murder of her cousin and fellow officer, Justine Goodluck, and sets out to risk everything to uncover the truth about Justine's death.