Book Recommendations for National Native American Heritage Month

November is National American Indian Heritage Month, which makes it the perfect time to pick up books by and about Native American and Indigenous people. It's not only a chance to celebrate diverse cultures, traditions, and contributions, but also to bring awareness to the challenges they faced throughout history. We've gathered a list below featuring fiction, non-fiction, children's books, and poetry that we hope you check out.

Updated December 1, 2023
Southeastern Ohio Regional LibraryChillicothe & Ross County Public Library
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Warrior Girl unearthed
Boulley, Angeline
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author Angeline Boulley takes us back into the world of Firekeeper's Daughter in this high-stakes mystery about the power of discovering your stolen history A Waterstones Best YA Books of 2023 A Financial Times Best YA Summer Book 2023<...
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...
The berry pickers
Peters, Amanda
Paper Book
One family's deepest pain. Another family's darkest secret. On a hot day in 1960s Maine, six-year-old Joe watches his little sister Ruthie, sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of the blueberry fields, while their family, Mi'kmaq people from Nova Scotia, pick fruit. That...
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...

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