National Native American Heritage Month
This book’d list features fiction and nonfiction works primarily by Indigenous authors from the Americas, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. These books center Indigenous perspectives, relationships with land, and lived experiences, as well as a few non-fiction works created in collaboration with Indigenous communities.
This book illustrates how the power of language can inform and strengthen the power of community, and how the love between a father and child can demonstrate courage and fortitude to others. A beautiful and rich book!
If you're into historical fiction and horror, this collection of stories is a great choice. It follows one Cherokee family tree through various generations, tracing their roots from the colonial era to modern day and infusing each short story with classic horror themes.
A book for animal-lovers and murder-mystery fans, this coming-of-age story follows a young Apache woman in a modern-day Texas where ghosts, fairies, vampires, and other magical creatures walk among us.
Kimmerer shares her wealth of knowledge as an ecologist and her depth of experience as a member of the Citizen Potawatami Nation, discussing a model of reciprocity that highlights the importance of relationships with one another and with nature.
A gripping story steeped in tribal mythology and horrors both real and imagined, this book follows a poignant, all-too-real mystery of Indigenous girls gone missing.
In this historical fantasy, the empires of Europe think they have dragon magic figured down to a science. Their colonization efforts threaten the Native Nations of North America, but they don't account for the deep connections these tribes have built with their own dragons.
"Never Whistle at Night" is an anthology of darkly written short stories, with each one presenting a different perspective on the horrors that lurk beneath the surface of everyday life for many Indigenous peoples.
Tommy Orange delivers a striking debut novel that explores the contemporary Native American experience. The characters are incredible, the details throughout the book are fantastically rendered and everything comes together at the Big Oakland Powwow in a shocking conclusion that will leave you breathless.
With assertive language and striking illustrations, this book shares the powerful responsibility Indigenous communities adhere to in terms of protecting our world's water supply, providing a lesson that all should learn to follow.
Four Winds, a young Lakota girl, transforms into Runs with Courage after being sent to a boarding school and taught to abandon her culture yet learns a far more valuable lesson, instead of running from the harsh treatment at the school, she runs toward a future as a teacher for her people.
A dark look at changing fate; Indigenous survivors struggle to find hope in a future that's been torn apart by climate change and a past that seems to slip out of control the more they try to fix it.
This book is a glimpse of the wide variety of native people living across the U.S., with beautifully photographed stories of people from each of the 562 federally recognized Native American tribes.
A graphic novel celebration of pop culture in First Nations Culture, from D&D to social media and more.