Murder on the Red River
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Murder on the Red River by Marcier Rendon
One Book, One Minnesota Selection for Summer 2021Introducing Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman whose visions and grit help solve a brutal murder in this award-winning debut.
1970s, Red River Valley between North Dakota and Minnesota: Renee "Cash" Blackbear is 19 years old and tough as nails. She lives in Fargo, North Dakota, where she drives truck for local farmers, drinks beer, plays pool, and helps solve criminal investigations through the power of her visions. She has one friend, Sheriff Wheaton, her guardian, who helped her out of the broken foster care system.
One Saturday morning, Sheriff Wheaton is called to investigate a pile of rags in a field and finds the body of an Indian man. When Cash dreams about the dead man's weathered house on the Red Lake Reservation, she knows that's the place to start looking for answers. Together, Cash and Wheaton work to solve a murder that stretches across cultures in a rural community traumatized by racism, genocide, and oppression.
Marcie Rendon is a White Earth Nation citizen. She was the first Native American woman to receive the McKnight Distinguished Artist award, which she received in 2020. Girl Gone Lost, published by Cinco Puntos Publications, is the second installment in the Cash Blackbear series. Murder on the Red River (2017 Cinco Puntos Publishing), which won the Pinckley Women's Debut Crime Novel Award in 2018, was the first. It was a Spur Award Finalist in the Contemporary Novel category from the Western Writers of America in 2018.
Pow Wow Summer (MN Historical Press) and Farmer's Market: Families Working Together (CarolRhoda) are two nonfiction children's books. Rendon was named a Minnesota AARP and POLLEN 50 Over 50 Change-maker in 2018. She is the brains of Raving Native Theater, with four published plays to her credit. She curates community-created performance, such as Art Is...CreativeNativeResilience, which aired on TPT Public Television in June 2019 and features three Anishinabe performance artists.
Rendon was highlighted in Oprah Magazine's 31 Native American Writers to Read Right Now: Rendon's Cash Blackbear series are captivating vehicles that reveal wider stories about the historical mistreatment of American Indians. Diego Vazquez and Rendon received the Loft's 2017 Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for their work with women jailed in county jails.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781641293761 |
| ISBN 10 | 1641293764 |
| Title | Murder on the Red River |
| Author | Marcier Rendon |
| Series | Cash Blackbear Mystery Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Soho Press |
| Year published | 2022-04-05 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |