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Reading Lists for Native American and Indigenous Peoples' Heritage Month

Suggestions for the #NativeLitChallenge2023

Under 250 Pages

Johnny Appleseed / Joshua Whitehead

Whitehead, Joshua, author. / Vancouver, BC, Canada : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2018]

2018

PR9199.4.W4745 J64 201

 

Even As We Breathe / Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

Clapsaddle, Annette Saunooke. / Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2020. / ©2021.

2020

 

Two Old Women: an Alaskan legend of betrayal, courage, and survival / Velma Wallis

Wallis, Velma. / Fairbanks : Epicenter Press, ©1993

1993

New-to-You Native Author

Recommended to You

Indigenous Author Outside North America

Potiki / Patricia Grace

Grace, Patricia, 1937- / Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1995, ©1986

1995, ©1986

 

The Bone People / Keri Hulme

Hulme, Keri. / Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2005 / Updated ed

2005

PR9639.3.H75 B6 2005

 

This Is Paradise / Kristiana Kahakauwila

Kahakauwila, Kristiana / New York: Random House Publishing Group / 1 / First edition.

2013

Any Native Author

Book that Has Illustrations

Paying the Land / Joe Sacco

Sacco, Joe, author, artist. / New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2020 / ©2020 / First edition.

2020

E99.C59 S23 2020

 

7 Generations: scars

Robertson, David Alexander, author. / Winnipeg, [Ontario] : HighWater Press, 2010. / ©2010

2010

PR9199.3.H472 .R634 2010

New Release in 2023

A Council of Dolls / Mona Susan Power

Power, Mona Susan, 1961- author. / New York : Mariner Books, [2023] / First edition.

2023

PS3566.O83578 C68 2023

 

VenCo / Cherie Dimaline

Dimaline, Cherie, 1975- author. / New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023] / ©2023 / First edition.

2023

PR9199.4.D56 V46 2023

Native Classic

House Made of Dawn / N. Scott Momaday

Momaday, N. Scott, 1934- / New York : Harper & Row, [1968]

1968

PS3563.O47 H6 1968b

 

Love Medicine / Louise Erdrich

Erdrich, Louise. / New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, ©1984 / 1st ed

©1984

PS3555.R42 L6 1984

 

She Had Some Horses / Joy Harjo

Harjo, Joy. / New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, ©1983.

©1983

PS3558.A62423 S5 1983