Broken Fields (A Cash Blackbear Mystery)

Broken Fields (A Cash Blackbear Mystery)Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman and occasional sleuth, is back on the case after a man is found dead on a rural Minnesota farm in the next installment of the acclaimed Native crime series. Minnesota, 1970s: It's spring in the Red River Valley and Cash Blackbear is doing fieldwork for a local farmer until she finds him dead on the kitchen floor of the property's rented farmhouse. The tenant, a Native field laborer, and his wife are nowhere to be

And he has learned from his own Inuk traditions

among a host of grandmothers and aunties

Thomas and Patrice live in this impoverished reservation community along with young Chippewa boxer Wood Mountain and his mother Juggie Blue

especially as it pertains to bodily pleasure

An ominous message conveyed to sixteen-year-old Billy Buckhorn by the spirit of his deceased grandmother opens the door to astounding supernatural events

This book is a compelling addition to the body of works about Crazy Horse and the complicated and often conflicting events of that time period in American History

and a memoir about women’s textiles

The lead authors separated these pieces into the four natural parts of our story: Tówla (Root)

Haymarket Books proudly brings back into print Winona LaDuke's seminal work of Native resistance to oppression

and compassion

household chores and cultural undertakings are highlighted

the guiding tracks of a bird