Native American Heritage Month

Check out these titles in celebration of Native American Heritage Month (November).

Updated November 9, 2023
Drag items up and down to your preferred order then select the "Save Order" button.
500 nations : an illustrated history of North American Indians
Josephy, Alvin M.
Paper Book
The story of Native American leaders, customs, political systems, and ways of life, this is American history from the Native American perspective: friendship, betrayal, war, and ultimately, the loss of homeland. A companion volume to the CBS series produced by Kevin Costner, Jack Leustig, and James...
American Indian higher educational experiences : cultural visions and personal journeys
Huffman, Terry E.
Paper Book
American Indian Higher Educational Experiences examines the multiple ways sixty-nine American Indian college students construct and use their ethnic identity while enrolled in a predominantly non-Indian university. Although their cultural backgrounds and orientations differ widely, for all of...
American Indian myths and legends
Erdoes, Richard
Paper Book
More than 160 tales from eighty tribal groups present a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage. From across the continent comes tales of creation and love; heroes and war; animals, tricksters, and the end of the world.  "This fine, valuable new...
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee : an Indian history of the American West
Brown, Dee Alexander.
Paper Book
Doumented account of the decimation of Native Americans in the last half of the 19th century, told from the Indian viewpoint.
The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears
Perdue, Theda
Paper Book
Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appalachians. Most Cherokees were forcibly relocated to eastern Oklahoma in the early nineteenth century. In 1830 the U.S. government shifted its policy from one of trying to assimilate American Indians to...
Edward S. Curtis : coming to light
Makepeace, Anne.
Paper Book
Bold, sometimes abrasive, forever passionate, Edward Curtis was the quintessential romantic visionary. Curtis struggled through an impoverished boyhood in Minnesota to become a successful society photographer in Seattle. But he soon moved far beyond weddings and studio portraits to his lifes worka...
Eyes bottle dark with a mouthful of flowers : poems
Skeets, Jake
Paper Book
Winner of the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner of a 2020 Whiting Award in Poetry Finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry Selected by Kathy Fagan as a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers is a...
The heartbeat of Wounded Knee : native America from 1890 to the present
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...
Indian blues : American Indians and the politics of music, 1879-1934
Troutman, John William.
Paper Book
From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. At the same time, Native singers, dancers, and musicians created new opportunities through musical performance to resist and...
Indian removal : a Norton casebook
Heidler, David Stephen
Paper Book
Placing Indian removal in political and social contexts, the editors have selected contemporary primary-source documents that reveal the motives and perspectives of both whites and Indians and cover the complicated influences of Jacksonian Democracy and the early stirrings of what would later be...
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 ...
Legacy : trauma, story and Indigenous healing
Methot, Suzanne
Paper Book
Winner of the 2019-20 Huguenot Society of Canada Award "Powerful ... A deeply empathetic and inspiring work with insights of value to anyone struggling to overcome personal or communal trauma." -- Library Journal "[A] beautifully written book about...
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...
Love medicine
Erdrich, Louise.
Paper Book
The first book in Erdrich's Native American tetralogy that includes The Beet Queen, Tracks, and The Bingo Palace is an authentic and emotionally powerful glimpse into the Native American experience--now resequenced and expanded to include never-before-published chapters.
Mother Earth, Father Sky : Native American myth
Lowenstein, Tom.
Paper Book
Explore the rich worldview of the first Americans, from creation stories to tales of the afterlife. Learn about the ceremonies and rituals that connect these people to each other and to the earth and animals that are so revered in Native American cultures.
Mythic beings : spirit art of the Northwest coast
Wyatt, Gary
Paper Book
Mythic Beings brings together 80 outstanding works by 20 contemporary artists that powerfully interpret Northwest Coast myths and legends. These works include totem poles, argillite sculptures, jewelry in silver and gold, carved and painted boxes, painted drums, and masks. They depict...
The Native American identity in sports : creating and preserving a culture
Salamone, Frank A.
Paper Book
On October 15, 1964 Billy Mills became the only American to win an Olympic Gold Medal for the 10,000 meters. It was but one notable triumph in sports by a Native American. Yet, unlike Mills's achievement, most significant contributions from Native Americans have gone unheralded. From individual...
Native American legends of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley
Judson, Katharine Berry.
Paper Book
-- Collected almost 100 years ago, these timeless tales reveal the central beliefs and guiding principles of Winnebago, Ojibwa, Menominee, and other peoples and provide a window into their outlook and aspirations. An introduction by historian Peter Iverson highlights the divergent ways Native...
Native American literature : a brief introduction and anthology
Vizenor, Gerald Robert
Paper Book
This is one of a series of brief anthologies designed for ethnic, multicultural and American literature courses. The series aims to introduce undergraduates to the rich but often neglected literary contributions of established and newer ethnic writers to American literature. Each text is organized...
Native American voices on identity, art, and culture : objects of everlasting esteem
Williams, Lucy Fowler.
Paper Book
The dynamic discourse stimulated by 78 magnificent objects created by Native Americans over the years, now housed in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and the responses of contemporary Native Americans to those objects forms the core of this book. As seen in...
New poets of Native nations
Erdrich, Heid E.
Paper Book
A landmark anthology celebrating twenty-one Native poets first published in the twenty-first century New Poets of Native Nations gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry....
North American Indian art
Penney, David W.
Paper Book
This timely book surveys the artistic traditions of indigenous North America, from those of ancient cultures to the work of modern artists. The text is organized geographically, covering tribes as wide-ranging as the Navajo, Cheyenne, Chumash, Tsimshian and Inuit, and draws upon Native American...
Project 562 : changing the way we see Native America
Wilbur, Matika
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . A photographic and narrative celebration of contemporary Native American life and cultures, alongside an in-depth examination of issues that Native people face, by celebrated photographer and storyteller Matika Wilbur of the Swinomish and Tulalip Tribes. ...
Religion and healing in Native America : pathways for renewal
Crawford O'Brien, Suzanne J.
Paper Book
What it means to be healthy or to heal is not universal from culture to culture, from religion to religion. Indeed, in many cultures religion and healing are intimately tied to each other. In Native American communities healing is conceived as the place where ideas about the body and selfhood are...
Silko : writing storyteller and medicine woman
Fitz, Brewster E.
Paper Book
Laguna Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko was raised in a culture with a strong oral tradition. In this examination of Silko's award-winning literature, Fitz explores the complex dynamic between the spoken story and the written word.
The Sioux chef's indigenous kitchen
Sherman, Sean
Paper Book
2018 James Beard Award Winner: Best American Cookbook Named one of the Best Cookbooks of 2017 by NPR, The Village Voice, Smithsonian Magazine, UPROXX, New York Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Mpls. St. Paul...
Southwest Indian painting; a changing art
Tanner, Clara Lee.
Paper Book
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...
Totem poles
Stewart, Hilary
Paper Book
Stewart portrays the historical and cultural background of totem poles, their types and purposes, and the tools and techniques of carving and raising them. In explaining how to look at poles, she describes and illustrates a broad array of creatures and objects, gives their meaning, and tells some of...
Tracks : a novel
Erdrich, Louise.
Paper Book
Set in the early 1900s, Tracks follows a North Dakota Indian tribe and its struggle to keep their land out of the hands of an encroaching white society.
Unworthy republic : the dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian territory
Saunt, Claudio
Paper Book
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational, overseen by Washington's small but growing bureaucracy. But as...
Voices from Haskell : Indian students between two worlds, 1884-1928
Vučković, Myriam.
Paper Book
Haskell Institute of Lawrence, Kansas, first opened its doors in 1884 to twenty-two Ponca and Ottawa children, sent there to be taught Anglo-Protestant cultural values. For a century and a quarter since that time, this famous boarding school institution has challenged and touched the lives of tens...
With eagle glance : American Indian photographic images, 1868 to 1931 : an exhibition of selected photographs from the collection of Warren Adelson and Ira Spanierman
Adelson, Warren.
Paper Book

Library staff! You can create and contribute to lists. Contact your catalog administrator or log in here.