Native American Comedy

When a young Native woman is transported into an old-fashioned Western romance novel, she must play the role of the heroine to find her way out—but chooses to take back the narrative instead—in this comedic and subversive novel by USA Today bestselling author Danica Nava. Grad student...

*A Best Book of the Year by NPR and Esquire* “A remarkable book.” —Steve Martin “An illuminating and stereotype-busting history of Native Americans and comedy” (The Washington Post) from Kliph Nesteroff, “the human encyclopedia of comedy” (VICE). It was one of the most reliable...

Native comedian Joey Clift takes you on a hilarious journey to discover the largest population you don't know in this sharp debut for fans of Michael Harriot and Phoebe Robinson. Foreword by Shane Hawk, writer and co-editor of Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology! Put...

Ricky shows us what Badass is in book 10 of the MC Series. Ricky, capable, loyal, and unexpectedly deep. One night. Too much to drink. An almost literal shotgun wedding ties Ricky to Elizabeth — his best friend’s little sister, his VP’s daughter, and Pres’s niece. He’s finally being taken seriously in the Club. He does not need this chaos. He also doesn’t need to die. Elizabeth proves Badass runs deep in the Knight family. With Little Ben’s help, she might survive the Brothers, the attacks, and her father’s wrath. Her biggest battle is figuring out her worth — to herself, ...

WINNER OF THE CHIRBY FICTION AWARD From the co-editor of the bestselling anthology Never Whistle at Night, a semi-autobiographical novel that follows a group of teenage gang members as they trek across Chicago to a momentous meeting, inspired by the cult classic The Warriors “Cool and real...

When Will returns to Medicine River, he thinks he is simply attending his mother’s funeral. He doesn’t count on Harlen Bigbear and his unique brand of community planning. Harlen tries to sell Will on the idea of returning to Medicine River to open shop as the town’s only Native...

None-of-your-beeswax-year-old Kandi needs to get to Florida for the First Annual Hairstravaganza in Juno Beach. She’s sooo close to achieving her dream of opening the hottest hair salon in LA, all she needs is a cash infusion — and to keep the landlord from selling it out from under her. Fear of flying isn’t going to stand in the way of Kandi’s dreams. Between her pizza-scented business cards and show-stopping hairstyle, she’s guaranteed to land an angel investor. So what if stress made her book a flight to Juneau, Alaska instead of Juno Beach, Florida with no return flights for a...

Artist and part-time grocery store employee, Catherine Donahue, is frustrated and disheartened after an unexpected change disrupts her already frazzled life. She had faith things would get better, yet now they seem to be worse. With emotions already heightened, she discovers a long-ago cherished gift hidden under the chaos of her once organized drawers, invoking a secret memory of a college, a powwow, and Sam – a young Mohawk, who made a single weekend last a lifetime. When Catherine acquires a commission to paint the cover of an author's new historical romance novel, she's drawn even ...

When Tilly receives an invitation to help drive eight elders on their ultimate bucket list road trip to New Mexico for the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow, she impulsively says yes. Before she knows it, Tilly is on an adventure that will transform her in ways she could not predict, just as it will for each and every one of the seniors on the trip, who soon dub themselves “the Crazy Eights.” Tilly and the Crazy Eights each choose a stop to make along the way - and each stop becomes the inspiration for secrets and stories to be revealed.

This audiobook unlocks the healing secrets that were guarded by the Native American culture for years. It shows how herbs and remedies have the power to rebuild a person’s mind and spirit. The in-depth knowledge in this audiobook is priceless. It allows you to explore the Native American culture and learn of their healing techniques. This audiobook is both medically beneficially and a joy to get an up close and personal look at Native Americans.

After seven years on the semi-pro wrestling circuit, Ricky Twohatchet, a.k.a. Richard Powell, needs one last match before he gets called up to the big leagues. Unlike some wrestlers who only play the stereotype, Ricky believes he comes by his persona honestly - he’s half White and half Native American - even if he’s never met his father. But the night of the match in Omaha, Nebraska, something askew in their intricate choreography sets him on a course for disaster.

When a Cherokee teen's wolf spirit guide transforms into a human girl to teach him confidence, he must choose between his crush on a rancher's daughter and the she-wolf who literally saved his life—all while navigating adoption trauma, cultural identity, and the three-year countdown until the next blood moon. A Cherokee teen. A shape-shifting wolf. Three years to choose between two worlds. Fifteen-year-old Dakota Buschkoetter has survived a lot: his mother's death, his father's imprisonment, adoption by a German woman and her military husband, and being dumped in Oklahoma with a ...

Darrell Dennis is a stereotype-busting, politically incorrect Native American/Aboriginal/Shuswap (Only he's allowed to call himself an "Indian." Maybe. Under some circumstances). With a large dose of humour and irreverence, he untangles some of the truths and myths about First Nations: Why do...

Comedy starts when the Preacher's Kid arrives on the Wind River Indian Reservation in the back of a pickup truck. He has a lot to learn from his Shoshone friends and is as curious about them as they are about him. They teach him to hunt, fish and swim along Trout Creek and the Little Wind River. He plays baseball but flunks basketball. "Red" has a long term game of cat and mouse with the Reservation Game Warden. He rides on a Cattle Drive, catches fish with his bare hands, drums at the Sundance and becomes a Blood Brother.

This is the tale of an average modern American man riding the freeways and living high in the peaks of the American southwest. Frank is seeking the love of a beautiful American woman, the dream of wealth, the thrill of adventure, the misfortune of murder, and the longing to be a part of this life everyone else seems to be so comfortable with. Aren't we all?

David is a blue-collar man, spending his days managing the Albuquerque Wastewater Utility plant, and nights ruminating over his painful past. Not much of import happens in his world, and that's just fine by him. That is, until a severed hand is found among the filtered debris of one of the waste filtration tanks. Thinking a few hours of paperwork will be all it takes to clear the episode from David's life, fate sends a beautiful Sheriff's Deputy named Gina, along with a series of events that drag him deep into something more sinister than he ever could have imagined.

Abby just needed to work in the casino run by the Standing Bear brothers, Dylan and Kyle, for a couple of weeks and she and her younger brother, Drew, would be fine. What could possibly go wrong in just a couple of weeks? One look at her brother, Drew's, face when she was taken to security and Abby knew she'd stepped into a nightmare and there was probably no coming back from it. That was why she leapt at the offer Dylan and Kyle made to work off what they owed without jail time. To say that nothing went quite the way she'd expected was an understatement.