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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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...
Born of lakes and plains : mixed-descent peoples and the making of the American West
Hyde, Anne Farrar
Paper Book
A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent Native families who first bridged and then collided with racial boundaries. Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native...
The rediscovery of America : native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history
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 ...

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