Indigenous Voices

Books by or about Indigenous people.
Updated September 19, 2022
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The Things She's Seen
Ambelin Kwaymullina
Paper Book
This brilliantly written thriller explores the lives--and deaths--of two girls, and what they will do to win justice. Sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the year! Nothing's been the same for Beth Teller since the day she died. Her dad is drowning in...
There There
Tommy Orange
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...
Indian Horse
Richard Wagamese
Ebook
"This flawless novel is an epic tragedy graced with tendrils of hope . . . a powerful fictional illumination of a Native North American life." --Minneapolis Star Tribune Named a "Best Novel of the Decade" by Literary Hub The Basis...
The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From USA TODAY bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a "masterpiece" (Locus Magazine) of a novel about revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition....
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
David Treuer
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...
Firekeeper's Daughter
Angeline Boulley
Paper Book
A PRINTZ MEDAL WINNER! A MORRIS AWARD WINNER! AN AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD YA HONOR BOOK! A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Soon to be adapted at Netflix...
The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich
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...
Code Talker
Joseph Bruchac
Paper Book
Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language. They braved some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with their code, they saved...
Heart Berries: A Memoir
Terese Marie Mailhot
Paper Book
A powerful, poetic memoir of an Indigenous woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Band in the Pacific Northwest--this New York Times bestseller and Emma Watson Book Club pick is "an illuminating account of grief, abuse and the complex nature of the Native experience . . . at once raw...
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller This American Book Award winning titleabout Native American struggle and resistance radically reframes more than 400 years of US history A New York TimesBestseller and the basis for the HBO docu-series Exterminate All the Brutes,<...

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