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Children Books
Adult Books – Fiction
Young Adult Books Fiction
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
By Kevin Noble Maillard
Fry Bread is an evocative depiction of a modern Native American family. Fry Bread is food. … It brings families together for meals and new memories. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
We are Water Protectors
By Carole Lindstrom
Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Stolen Words
By Melanie Florence
The story of the beautiful relationship between a little girl and her grandfather. The little girl sets out to help her grandfather find his language again. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
My Heart Fills with Happiness
By Monique Gray Smith
For little ones and adults alike to reflect on and cherish the moments in life that bring us joy. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
We Sang You Home
By Richard Van Camp
A celebration of the bond between parent and child, this is the perfect song to share with your little ones. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
When We Were Alone
By David A. Robertson
When We Were Alone is a story about a difficult time in history and, ultimately, one of empowerment and strength. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Celebrate My Hopi Toys
By Anita Poleahla
the story of how corn is planted, cultivated, harvested and prepared for use in the Hopi home.
Loving Me
By Debby Slier
Loving Me features multi-generational family members loving and caring for a child, as they tenderly show their babies and young children how much they are loved in this book of love and diversity. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Good Morning World
By Paul Windsor
For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
We All Count: A Book of Cree Numbers
By Julie Flett
This book is important in enhancing learning of Cree numbers and making Cree culture accessible to young readers. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Welcome Song for Baby: A Lullaby for Newborns
By Richard Van Camp
From renowned First Nations storyteller Richard Van Camp comes a lyrical lullaby for newborns. Complemented with stunning photographs, this evocative board book is perfectly suited as a first book for every baby. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
I See Me
By Margaret Manuel
Each adorable image includes an English caption with space below for parents to translate the word into their own language. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
By Joy Harijo
This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
There There
By Tommy Orange
Bbestselling novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Red Blood
By Jack Forbes
The novel traces a young Native American man’s journey through life, and consequent coming of age, as he travels all over North America seeking insights into his values, relationships, spirituality and culture. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
The Ancient Child
By N. Scott Momaday
the ancient Kiowa myth of a boy who turned into a bear into a timeless American classic. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
By Joseph Bruchac
Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
The Beadworkers
By Beth Piatote
Formally inventive and filled with vibrant characters, The Beadworkers draws on Indigenous aesthetics and forms to offer a powerful, sustaining vision of Native life. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Annie Muktuk
By Norma Dunning
Each eye-opening narrative twist in Annie Muktuk and Other Stories challenges readers’ perceptions of who Inuit people are. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
A Mind Spread Out on The Ground
By Alicia Elliott
Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Indian Horse
By Richard Wagamese
Spare and compact yet undeniably rich, Indian Horse is at once a heartbreaking account of a dark chapter in our history and a moving coming-of-age story. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Islands of Decolonial Love
By Leanne Simpson
renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
The Only Good Indians
By Stephen Graham Jones
he Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices
By Lisa Charleyboy
For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Urban Tribes: Native Americans in the City
By Lisa Charleyboy
Young, urban Natives powerfully show how their culture and values can survive—and enrich—city life. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Voices of the Winds
By Margot Edmonds & Ella E. Clark
This wonderfully colorful and appealing anthology gathers more than 130 Native American legends, many told to the authors by elder storytellers and tribal historians. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
By Dee Brown
Dee Brown’s eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of American Indians during the second half of the nineteenth century. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings
By Cathy N. Davidson
Zitkala-Sa wrestled with the conflicting influences of American Indian and white culture throughout her life. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Heart Berries: A Memoir
By Terese Marie Mailhot
For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Urban Voices: The Bay Area American Indian Community
By Susan Lobo
California has always been America’s promised land—for American Indians as much as anyone. In the 1950s, Native people from all over the United States moved to the San Francisco Bay Area as part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Relocation Program. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Black Elk Speaks
By John G. Neihardt
Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Last Standing Woman
By Winona Laduke
Traces the lives of seven generations of an Ojibwa family, beginning in the 1860’s. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing
By MariJo Moore
After five centuries of Eurocentrism, many people have little idea that Native American tribes still exist, or which traditions belong to what tribes. However, over the past decade there has been a rising movement to accurately describe Native cultures and histories. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Cherokee Woman: Gender and Culture Change
By Theda Perdue
Theda Perdue examines the roles and responsibilities of Cherokee women during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time of intense cultural change. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Native Defenders of the Environment (Native Trailblazers)
By Vincent Schilling
From the Native Trailblazers series comes a new book with the stories of twelve brave people who work tirelessly to save our environment. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Native Writers: Voices of Power (Native Trailblazers)
By Kim Sigafus
Learn about the life events and aspirations that shaped the voices of ten influential Native writers, whose novels, short stories and plays encompass the soul of Native life. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Warriors: Native Code Talkers
By Kenji Kawano
The American offensive in the Pacific during World War II was hampered by the Japanese ability to crack the most secret U.S. Codes. Navajo was virtually unknown outside the reservations, and their code proved uncrackable. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls: Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War
By Tom Holm
At least 43,000 Native Americans fought in the Vietnam War, yet both the American public and the United States government have been slow to acknowledge their presence and sacrifices in that conflict. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Warriors in Uniform: The Legacy of American Indian Heroism
By Herman J. Viola
Native Americans have willingly served in the U.S. military during each of this country’s wars, and their current numbers in the armed forces exceed the percentage of any other ethnic group. For more information and where to purchase, please visit Amazon.
Table of Contents
Children Books
Adult Books – Fiction
Young Adult Books Fiction