Tuesday, March 18, 2025 – Native Bookshelf: ‘Through a Prairie Country’ and ‘Broken Fields’

Author Marcie Rendon (White Earth Nation) continues to put her favorite Ojibwe protagonist, Cash Blackbear, into a nail biting search for another murderer in Broken Fields. It’s the fourth in Rendon’s Cash Blackbear series about a tough independent young woman who loves working the land of the Red River Valley as a farm hand and has a special intuition for solving crime. There’s more than the usual slots and tables at the ocean-themed Hidden Atlantis Casino on the fictional Languille Lake Reservation. Something dark has the power over casino patrons and only Marion Lafournier and his cousins know what’s up. Passing Through a Prairie Country by Dennis E. Staples (Red Lake Nation) takes readers through dimensions that Marion must navigate to save the souls of his people.   Break 1 Music: Ojibwe Honor Song (song) Darren Thompson (artist) Break 2 Music: Honor Song (song) Blackfoot Confederacy (artist) Hear the Beat (album)