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Updated November 1, 2024

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Wandering Stars A Novel

Orange, Tommy.

Paper Book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into...

There there

Orange, Tommy

Paper Book

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that 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. A contemporary classic, this...

Winter counts : a novel

Weiden, David Heska Wanbli

Paper Book

ANTHONY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL THRILLER AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL "Winter Counts is a marvel. It's a thriller with a beating heart and jagged teeth." --Tommy Orange, author of There There ...

The painted drum

Erdrich, Louise

Paper Book

"Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has opened herself to possibilities beyond what we merely see--to the dead alive and busy, to the breath of trees and the souls of wolves--and...

Stealing :

Verble, Margaret.

Paper Book

"This powerful novel should join classics like Ernest J. Gaines's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Helena Maria Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus, and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird."--New York Times Book Review A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee...

LaRose /

Erdrich, Louise

Paper Book

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Finalist for the 2017 PEN Faulkner Award In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague...

The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse

Erdrich, Louise.

Paper Book

For more than half a century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, he dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All...

The plague of doves /

Erdrich, Louise

Paper Book

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Plague of Doves--the first part of a loose trilogy that includes the National Book Award-winning The Round House and LaRose--is a gripping novel about a long-unsolved crime in a small North Dakota town and how, years later, the consequences are still being...

The marrow thieves

Dimaline, Cherie

Other

Winner of the 2017 Governor General's Literary Award (Young People's Literature - Text) Winner of the 2017 Kirkus PrizeWinner of the 2018 Sunburst Award Winner of the 2018 Amy Mathers Teen Book Award Winner of the 2018 Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit...

The round house

Erdrich, Louise.

Paper Book

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction. One of the most revered novelists of our time--a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life--Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize...

The only good Indians : a novel

Jones, Stephen Graham

Paper Book

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a "masterpiece" (Locus Magazine) of a novel about revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition. This is a remarkable horror story that "will give you nightmares-...

The only good Indians :

Jones, Stephen Graham,

A tale of revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones. Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four...

Black sun

Roanhorse, Rebecca

Paper Book

NOMINATED FOR THE 2021 HUGO AWARDS AND THE 2020 NEBULA AWARDS FOR BEST NOVEL From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn comes the first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian...

The sentence :

Erdrich, Louise

Paper Book

"Dazzling. . . . A hard-won love letter to readers and to booksellers, as well as a compelling story about how we cope with pain and fear, injustice and illness. One good way is to press a beloved book into another's hands. Read The Sentence and then do just that."--USA Today, Four Stars ...

The heartsong of Charging Elk : a novel

Welch, James

Paper Book

From the award-winning author of the Native American classic Fools Crow,James Welch gives usa richly crafted novel of cultural crossing that is a triumph of storytelling and the historical imagination. Charging Elk, an Oglala Sioux, joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and...

Where the dead sit talking /

Hobson, Brandon,

Paper Book

With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a 15-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface - that is,...

The rediscovery of America :

Blackhawk, Ned

Paper Book

National Bestseller Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Award in History * Winner of 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction * Winner of the 2024 Mark Lynton History Prize ...

Calling for a blanket dance /

Hokeah, Oscar,

Paper Book

Winner of the PEN America/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel * Finalist for the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize * Finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction "A profound reflection on the intergenerational nature of cultural trauma....

Spirit run : a 6,000-mile marathon through North America's stolen land

A?lvarez, Noe?

Paper Book

In this New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, the son of working-class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American marathon from Canada to Guatemala in this "stunning memoir that moves to the rhythm of feet, labor, and the many...

Firekeeper's daughter

Boulley, Angeline

Other

An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick! A Printz Medal AND Morris Award Winner! Soon to be adapted at Netflix for TV with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground.

The heartbeat of Wounded Knee :

Treuer, David.

Paper Book

Beginning with the tribes' devastating loss of land and the forced assimilation of their children at government-run boarding schools, he shows how the period of greatest adversity also helped to incubate a unifying Native identity. He traces how conscription in the US military and the pull of urban...

Fevered star /

Roanhorse, Rebecca,

Paper Book

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series! USA TODAY Bestseller Return to The Meridian with New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse's sequel to the most critically hailed epic fantasy of 2020 Black Sun--finalist for...

Mirrored heavens /

Roanhorse, Rebecca,

Paper Book

The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse's Between Earth and Sky trilogy. Even the sea cannot stay calm before the storm. --Teek saying

Braiding sweetgrass /

Kimmerer, Robin Wall.

Paper Book

A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member...

The removed :

Hobson, Brandon,

Paper Book

"A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family's reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family's way home is full--in equal measure--of melancholy and love." --Tommy Orange, author of There There ...

Native nations :

Duval, Kathleen

Paper Book

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * "A magisterial overview of a thousand years of Native American history" (The New York Review of Books), from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE, THE...

VenCo

Dimaline, Cherie.

Paper Book

From the bestselling author of Empire of Wild, a wickedly subversive, deliciously imaginative, deeply feminist novel of contemporary witches on the rise--a book that only the supremely gifted storyteller Cherie Dimaline could write. Lucky St. James, orphaned daughter of a...

The Deerfield Massacre :

Swanson, James L.,

Paper Book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt (now an Apple TV+ series) and in the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon comes "a vivid account" (The Wall Street Journal) of a forgotten chapter in American history: the deadly confrontation between natives and...

Hunting by stars

Dimaline, Cherie

Paper Book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The thrilling follow-up to the bestselling, award-winning novel The Marrow Thieves, about a dystopian world where the Indigenous people of North America are being hunted for their bone marrow and ability to dream. Years ago, when plagues...

The Deerfield Massacre : A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

Swanson, James L.

Paper Book

Empire of wild

Dimaline, Cherie

Paper Book

INDIGO'S #1 BEST BOOK OF 2019 NATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MARROW THIEVES, THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER, MULTI-AWARD WINNER AND CANADA READS FINALIST "Wildly entertaining and profound and essential." --Tommy Orange, The New York Times<...

My heart is a chainsaw /

Jones, Stephen Graham,

Paper Book

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest novel from the Jordan...

Killers of the Flower Moon :

Grann, David.

Other

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, "one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."--New York...

The night watchman : a novel

Erdrich, Louise

Paper Book

WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WASHINGTON POST, NPR, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, KIRKUS, CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's...

On savage shores :

Dodds Pennock, Caroline,

Paper Book

AN ECONOMIST AND SMITHSONIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after...

The angel of Indian Lake /

Jones, Stephen Graham,

Paper Book

A National Bestseller The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror novels picks up four years after Don't Fear the Reaper as Jade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to build a life after the years of sacrifice--only to find the Lake Witch is...

Whiskey tender :

Taffa, Deborah Jackson,

Paper Book

Finalist for the National Book Award Longlisted for a Carnegie Medal for Excellence Winner of the Southwest Book Award A Best Book of the Year: Washington Post, Esquire, Time, The Atlantic, NPR, and Publishers Weekly An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting...

I was a teenage slasher /

Jones, Stephen Graham,

Paper Book

*USA TODAY Bestseller * Alex Award Winner * The "viciously clever, over-the-top, genre-skewing" (The New York Times Book Review) classic slasher story with a twist from Stephen Graham Jones, the master of modern horror and bestselling author of The...

Don't fear the reaper /

Jones, Stephen Graham,

Paper Book

A Locus Award Finalist December 12th, 2019, Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer Dark Mill South escapes into town to complete his revenge killings, in this riveting sequel to My Heart Is a Chainsaw from...

Whiskey Tender : A Memoir

Taffa, Deborah.

Paper Book

My heart is a chainsaw

Jones, Stephen Graham

Paper Book

I Was A Teenage Slasher

Jones, Stephen Graham

Paper Book

The Angel of Indian Lake

Jones, Stephen Graham

Paper Book

White horse /

Wurth, Erika T.,

Paper Book

"This ghost story is a perfect example of new wave horror that will also satisfy fans of classic Stephen King." --Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic Erika T. Wurth's White Horse is a gritty, vibrant novel about an...

By the fire we carry : the generations-long fight for justice on Native land

Nagle, Rebecca

Paper Book

"No part of the judiciary exposes the chasm between American ideals and institutional practice like federal Indian law. In By the Fire We Carry, Nagle, a Cherokee journalist, turns a case most Americans haven't heard of into a legal thriller." --New York Times Book Review NATIONAL...

When two feathers fell from the sky /

Verble, Margaret.

Paper Book

Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble: set in 1926 Nashville, it follows a death-defying young Cherokee horse-diver who, with her companions from the Glendale Park Zoo, must get to the bottom of a...

Stealing :

Verble, Margaret.

Paper Book

Where they last saw her /

Rendon, Marcie R.,

Paper Book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the award-winning author of the Cash Blackbear series comes a compelling novel of a Native American woman who learns of the disappearance of one of her own and decides enough is enough. A WASHINGTON POST AND BOOK RIOT BEST BOOK OF THE...

Never whistle at night : an Indigenous dark fiction anthology

Hawk, Shane

Paper Book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST EDITED ANTHOLOGY * BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ANTHOLOGY * LOCUS AWARD FINALIST A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un...

Never whistle at night : an Indigenous dark fiction anthology

Hawk, Shane

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The Berry Pickers

Peters, Amanda.

Paper Book

A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick...

The Berry Pickers

Peters, Amanda.

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The Berry Pickers

Peters, Amanda.

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Looking for Smoke /

Cobell, K. A.

Paper Book

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK In her powerful debut novel, Looking for Smoke, author K. A. Cobell (Blackfeet) weaves loss, betrayal, and complex characters into a thriller that will illuminate, surprise, and engage readers until the final word. A must-pick for readers who enjoy books by...

Berry Pickers

Peters, Amanda/ Waunch, Jordan (NRT)/ Warbus, Aaliya (NRT)

A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years. July 1962. Following in the tradition of Indigenous workers from Nova...

A Grandmother Begins the Story

Porter, Michelle.

Paper Book

National Bestseller Winner of the 2024 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Finalist for the 2023 Writers' Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize Five generations of Métis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the...

The seed keeper : a novel

Wilson, Diane

Paper Book

A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Big Reads Selection Winner of the Minnesota Book Award A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakhóta family's struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters...

Bad Cree :

Johns, Jessica

Paper Book

In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home. "A mystery and a horror story about...

The lost journals of Sacajewea :

Earling, Debra Magpie,

Paper Book

Winner of the Montana Book Award From the award-winning author of Perma Red comes a devastatingly beautiful novel that challenges prevailing historical narratives of Sacajewea. "In my seventh winter,...

Woman of light :

Fajardo-anstine, Kali

Paper Book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A "dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical" (Roxane Gay) epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina ...

Crooked hallelujah

Ford, Kelli Jo

Paper Book

"A book that you want to share with everyone you know and one that you are desperate to keep in your own possession. A masterful debut and a new and thrilling voice for readers across the globe." --Sarah Jessica Parker, on Instagram It's 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and fifteen...

Blood sisters /

Lillie, Vanessa

Paper Book

A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who is summoned to rural Oklahoma to investigate the disappearance of two women...one of them her sister. There are secrets in the land. As an archeologist for the...

Sisters of the lost nation /

Medina, Nick,

Paper Book

Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. For the bullies who torment her, for the entitled visitors at the reservation's casino and for the nameless, disembodied entity that stalks her every step - an ancient tribal myth come to life, one that's intent on devouring her whole. With strange and...

Indian burial ground /

Medina, Nick,

Paper Book

All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right and a plan to move from the reservation she grew up on - just like her beloved Uncle Louie before her - things are finally looking up for Noemi. Until the news of her boyfriend's apparent suicide brings...

A council of dolls :

Power, Mona Susan,

Paper Book

The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award-winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day. From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the...

Where Wolves Don't Die

Treuer, Anton.

Paper Book

Tightly woven Indigenous YA thriller that explores masculinity and love between generations of family Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojibwe, at a local college, so they have to be there. But Ezra hates the dirty,...

Night of the living rez

Talty, Morgan

Paper Book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection New England Book Award Winner, Fiction A Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction, The Story Prize, B&N Discover Book Prize A New York...

Fire Exit : A novel

Talty, Morgan.

Paper Book

A Best Book of the Year by TIME * The New Yorker * ELLE * NPR * Harper's Bazaar * Finalist for the 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the 2024 Maya Angelou Book Award * Longlisted for the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the 2024 Andrew Carnegie...

Prudence /

Treuer, David.

Paper Book

A haunting and unforgettable novel about love, loss, race, and desire in World War II–era America. On a sweltering day in August 1942, Frankie Washburn returns to his family’s rustic Minnesota resort for one last visit before he joins the war as a bombardier, headed...

The break /

Vermette, Katherena,

Paper Book

Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award, The Break is a stunning and heartbreaking debut novel about a multigenerational Métis-Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking...

To shape a dragon's breath /

Blackgoose, Moniquill,

Paper Book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER . WINNER OF THE ASTOUNDING, NEBULA, AND LODESTAR AWARDS . FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AND BRITISH FANTASY NEWCOMER AWARDS . "My favorite book of the year . . . a coming-of-age story that is cozy and hair-raising in equal measure."-Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post

Better the blood /

Bennett, Michael,

Paper Book

Winner of the Ngaio Marsh First Novel Award An absorbing, clever debut thriller that speaks to the longstanding injustices faced by New Zealand's indigenous peoples, by an acclaimed Māori screenwriter and director A tenacious Māori detective, Hana Westerman...

Probably Ruby

Bird-Wilson, Lisa.

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Indian killer

Alexie, Sherman

Paper Book

Native American Sherman Alexie's new novel is a departure in tone from his lyrical and funny earlier work, which include The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Reservation Blues. The main character is an Indian serial killer who incites racial tension by murdering whites in retribution...

Cold :

Taylor, Drew Hayden,

Paper Book

Elmore Trent is a professor of Indigenous studies who finds himself entangled in an affair that's ruining his marriage; Paul North plays in the IHL (Indigenous Hockey League), struggling to keep up with the game that's passing him by; Detective Ruby Birch is chasing a string of gruesome murders,...

Warrior girl unearthed /

Boulley, Angeline,

Paper Book

An Instant New York Times bestseller! A #1 Indies Bestseller! Six Starred Reviews! #1 New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper's Daughter Angeline Boulley takes us back to Sugar Island in this high-stakes thriller about the power of discovering your stolen...

An indigenous peoples' history of the United States

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne

Paper Book

New York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples ...

By the Fire We Carry : The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Nagle, Rebecca.

Paper Book

We had a little real estate problem :

Nesteroff, Kliph

Paper Book

A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Esquire From Kliph Nesteroff, "the human encyclopedia of comedy" (VICE), comes the important and underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy. It was one of the most reliable jokes in Charlie Hill's...

Native America.

DVD

Explores the world created by America's first peoples. The series reaches back 15,000 years to reveal massive cities aligned to the stars, unique systems of science and spirituality, and 100 million people connected by social networks spanning two continents.

Native America. Season two

Kennedye, Charles

DVD

NATIVE AMERICA returns this October to PBS with four new hour-long episodes that present a groundbreaking portrait of contemporary Native America. Building on the first season's success, Season 2 of the Native-directed series reveals the beauty and power of today's Indigenous communities. Smashing...

Poet warrior :

Harjo, Joy.

Paper Book

Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of...

Conflict resolution for holy beings : poems

Harjo, Joy

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In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the...

An American sunrise :

Harjo, Joy.

Paper Book

In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family's lands and opens a dialogue with history. In An American Sunrise, Harjo...

Weaving sundown in a scarlet light :

Harjo, Joy.

Paper Book

A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet. Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her "warm, oracular voice" (John Freeman, Boston Globe) that speaks "from a deep and...

Living nations, living words : an anthology of first peoples poetry

Harjo, Joy

Paper Book

Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and...

When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through : a Norton anthology of Native nations poetry

Harjo, Joy

Paper Book

Selected as one of Oprah Winfrey's "Books That Help Me Through" United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark...

Heart berries : a memoir

Mailhot, Terese Marie

Paper Book

*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & EDITORS' CHOICE* Winner of the Spalding Prize for the Promotion of Peace and Justice in Literature Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Nonfiction Selected by Emma Watson as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for...

Crow Mary

Grissom, Kathleen

Paper Book

The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Everything returns with a sweeping and "richly detailed story of a woman caught between two cultures" (Sandra Dallas, New York Times bestselling author) inspired by the...

Crow Mary :

Grissom, Kathleen

The author of the book-club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Everything returns with a sweeping saga inspired by the true story of Crow Mary--an indigenous woman torn between two worlds in nineteenth-century North America. In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman,...

The Lost Wife

Moore, Susanna

Paper Book

Drawn partly from a true story, a searing, totally immersive novel about a devastating Native American revolt, and a woman caught in the middle of the conflict. In the summer of 1855, Sarah Brinton abandons her husband and child to make the long and difficult journey to Minnesota...

The White Girl: A Novel

Tony Birch

Ebook

"A profound allegory of good and evil, and a deep exploration of human interaction, black and white, alternately beautiful and tender, cruel and unsettling."--Guardian Australia's leading indigenous storyteller makes his American debut with this immersive and deeply resonant novel, set in...

The Truth According to Ember

Nava, Danica

Paper Book

Ember Lee Cardinal has not always been a liar - well, not for anything that counted at least. But her job search is not going well and when her resume is rejected for the thirty-seventh time, she takes matters into her own hands. She gets 'creative' listing her qualifications and answers the...

And then she fell : a novel

Elliott, Alicia

Paper Book

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* *Indigenous Voices Award winner* *Amazon First Novel Award winner* *First Nations Communities READ Award winner* *Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction* *Named a Globe and Mail and CBC Best Book of the Year* From the...

Sheine Lende

Badger, Darcie Little/ Cai, Rovina (ILT)

Paper Book

"Like Elatsoe, Sheine Lende is much more chill than your typical YA fantasy or YA mystery. The stakes are high, but it never feels stressful. There is little on-the-page violence, and even when things get heavy or dangerous, the reader always feels...

Elatsoe

Little Badger, Darcie

Paper Book

One of TIME Magazine's Top 100 Fantasy Novels of All Time -- Now in Paperback! A Texas teen comes face-to-face with a cousin's ghost and vows to unmask the murderer. Elatsoe--Ellie for short--lives in an alternate contemporary America shaped by the...

A snake falls to Earth /

Little Badger, Darcie,

Paper Book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this breathaking work of Indigenous futurism, Darcie Little Badger weaves an unforgettable tale of monsters, magic, and family. Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still...

Stolen :

Laestadius, Ann-Helâen,

Paper Book

* NOW A NETFLIX FILM * AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A spellbinding Swedish novel that follows a young indigenous woman as she struggles to defend her family's reindeer herd and culture amidst xenophobia, climate change, and a devious hunter whose targeted kills are considered mere...

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