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There are some great series about and featuring Native Americans. The most famous, of course, are Tony Hillerman's Navajo mysteries. Here are some other well-done but lesser-known novels featuring tribal police and (in most cases) reservations.
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message 1: by Elaine (new)

Elaine Thanks for your contributions, Alice and Angela. I have some new suggestions based on them! Bone Game sounds especially interesting. I find it interesting that two of your books involve the Choctaw nation. That's not the nation I would predict to be commonly written about. I'm pretty sure there are likely more written about the Navajo and Cherokee nations than any other.

I myself live about 5 miles from the headquarters and grounds of the Iowa tribe. They are a really small tribe. I've also never seen any fiction involving Pawnees or the Osage nation. The Pawnee tribe doesn't surprise me, the Osage nation does surprise me.


message 2: by Vicki (new)

Vicki The #1 book, Hearts of the Missing, has 17 votes but has only been rated 16 times. Spam?


message 3: by Bibliomystic (new)

Bibliomystic The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a fantastic book and is set on a reservation, but it's definitely not a mystery.


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