Indigenous Voices for Adults

To honor Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Happy Valley librarians have selected the following books that might serve as an introduction to a rich and diverse heritage of fiction, nonfiction, history, poetry, memoir, and more by and about Indigenous peoples in the United States.

Updated September 25, 2023
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The removed : a novel
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 ...
Empire of wild : a novel
Dimaline, Cherie
Paper Book
Gathering moss : a natural and cultural history of mosses
Kimmerer, Robin Wall.
Paper Book
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Mossis a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.
There there
Orange, Tommy
Paper Book
** Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award ** One of Barack Obama's best books of 2018, the New York Timesbestselling novel about contemporary America from a bold new Native American voice 'A thunderclap' Marlon James...

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