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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Thinning blood : a memoir of family, myth, and identity
Myers, Leah
Paper Book
Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe's strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family. Beginning with her great...
Grandmother Begins the Story : A Novel.
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Paper Book
National Bestseller Winner of the 2024 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Finalist for the 2023 Writers' Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize Five generations of Métis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the...
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 a...
The missing morningstar : and other stories
Denetsosie, Stacie Shannon
Paper Book
A 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Award winner "Propulsive and complex, this is agorgeously written debut." --KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) In The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories, Stacie Shannon Denetsosie confronts long-reaching effects...
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Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of Empire of Wild, a wickedly subversive, deliciously imaginative, deeply feminist novel of contemporary witches on the rise--a book that only the supremely gifted storyteller Cherie Dimaline could write. Lucky St. James, orphaned daughter of a...
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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