Native American Heritage Month: Books for Adults

November is Native American Heritage Month, which pays tribute to the rich ancestry and contemporary impacts of Indigenous people in the United States. Check out one of these great titles to celebrate!

Updated October 28, 2024
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Everything you wanted to know about Indians but were afraid to ask
Treuer, Anton.
Paper Book
"I had a profoundly well-educated Princetonian ask me, 'Where is your tomahawk?' I had a beautiful woman approach me in the college gymnasium and exclaim, 'You have the most beautiful red skin.' I took a friend to see Dances with Wolves and was told, 'Your people have a beautiful culture.'...
A grandmother begins the story
Porter, Michelle
Paper Book
From award-winning Métis author Michelle Porter, a powerfully funning and moving story told not just by five generations of Métis women, but also by the land, the bison that surround them, and two utterly captivating dogs. Carter is a young mother on a quest to...
A song over Miskwaa Rapids : a novel
Grover, Linda LeGarde
Paper Book
A fifty-year-old mystery converges with a present-day struggle over family, land, and history   When a rock is dislodged from its slope by mischievous ancestors, the past rises to meet the present, and Half-Dime Hill gives up a gruesome secret it has kept for half...
The missing morningstar : and other stories
Denetsosie, Stacie Shannon
Paper Book
A 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Award winner "Propulsive and complex, this is agorgeously written debut." --KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) In The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories, Stacie Shannon Denetsosie confronts long-reaching effects...
Our way--a parallel history : an anthology of native history, reflection, and story
Cajune, Julie
Paper Book
Our Way: A Parallel Historydispels the myths, stereotypes, and absence of information about American Indian, Native Alaskan, and Native Hawaiian people in the master narrative of US history. For most of American history, stories of the country's Indigenous Peoples were either ignored or told by...

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