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Good Morning, I am so happy I found this site, and I hope you guys can help me.

Back in the mid 1980's I went to our local library religiously every Monday, checked out my 10 books and 3 comic books, and sometimes a book on tape.

I read what would now be considered young adult, but I didn't pay attention to genres back then. I was only 15. I also read books for older audiences, but I am pretty sure what I am looking for was in that YA section of our little library.

Among the hundreds of books I read over about three years was a series by what I assume was an American author. The books (at least three, potentially more) were situated on and around a reservation, and dealt with the discrimination and outright criminal activities against the Native Americans who lived there. The story was set in modern times, probably in the 1970's.

The protagonist was a native man, with the last name of King. His wife's name was Queenie King. They had a couple of children (I think), and were raising horses on the reservation.

The antagonists included the local sheriff and a number of other people (white males) from the surrounding towns and villages.

Mr. King was singled out by the protagonist group due to him standing up against injustice. He had returned to the reservation after a prolonged absence, but I don't remember what the cause was.

The most vivid scene I remember is from when he went to "talk" to the Sheriff (I think) and others at a local bar/saloon. He suspected that they would attempt to get him drunk, so that they could provoke him to do something wrong, and then arrest him. Prior to joining them at the table, he went to the bathroom and ate literally a side of bacon, to help him to stay sober.

While I know that the main location was on a reservation, I am not sure of the state this all took place. From what I remember of the location description it could have been in the Dakota's

I read those books several times within a few years, but I don't remember the title (which wouldn't make much of a difference since it was in German).
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This book existed by 2003 at least; it was in my school library so it was probably published before then. I barely remember the plot except for a few incidents. The protagonist was a boy or man, and at some point he and his... girlfriend, I guess, made a deal with some kind of supernatural beings, who temporarily killed them by touching them over their hearts. I remember that at the very end, he was going to lead his people to live in "the world in the lake". The book was a small paperback, in English, in a school library in the USA.

I read this book a little too young to really understand it, and it's been haunting me. My thanks for helping me track it down to read it again with more age and experience.

EDIT: Through some more googling and exploring, I found the book. TThe book is "Anpao: an American Indian Odyssey" and is by Jamake Highwater (born Jackie Marks) who apparently claimed a Native American background he did not possess. Still glad to track down this weird mythic story.
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(Crossposted to [community profile] whatwasthatbook.)

I recall having read this one in the Seventies, most likely as part of an Alfred Hitchcock anthology. The setting is somewhere in the Amazon region; a native girl performs a dance that her culture uses as a passionate declaration of true love and eternal fidelity, and some boorish Yankee tourist (I don't remember whether he was the intended recipient) insults her by flinging silver dollars at her feet--as if she were doing no more than busking.

We later learn that a visiting American has been staked out and devoured alive by army ants; turns out that he wasn't the offender, but he happened to pay his bar tab in American silver dollars...

(This story made such an impression that--something like four decades later--I always ask street performers, "Are you accepting donations?" if there isn't a hat or similar receptacle in evidence.)

ETA: [personal profile] mildred_of_midgard has ID'd the story as "Pieces of Silver" by Brett Halliday, from Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories for Late at Night(1961), ed. Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Arthur (reprinted by permission of the author; copyright, 1938, by David Dresser.)
[personal profile] roseblue92
I haven’t read this book myself but my coworker described it to me and it sounds fascinating. However, he can’t remember the title or author. All he can tell me is that it is about an alternate reality in which the Pilgrims assimilated to Native American culture when they landed in North America, instead of the other way around. The book is set in the modern day and shows what the country would be like now had this happened. I know it’s pretty vague but that’s all he can give me and I’d really like to find it and read it! Thanks!

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