Native / Indigenous Authors: Nonfiction

Memoirs, poetry, and more from authors with Native or Indigenous heritage

Updated October 29, 2025
LINCC (Libraries in Clackamas County) Milwaukie Ledding Library
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Poet warrior : a memoir
Harjo, Joy
Paper Book
Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of...
Rez life : an Indian's journey through reservation life
Treuer, David.
Paper Book
A prize-winning writer offers "an affecting portrait of his childhood home, Leech Lake Indian Reservation, and his people, the Ojibwe" (The New York Times). A member of the Ojibwe of northern Minnesota, David Treuer grew up on Leech Lake Reservation, but was educated in...
Warrior princesses strike back : how Lakota twins fight oppression and heal through connectedness
Eagle Heart, Sarah
Ebook
Weaving sundown in a scarlet light : fifty poems for fifty years
Harjo, Joy
Paper Book
A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet. Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her "warm, oracular voice" (John Freeman, Boston Globe) that speaks "from a deep and...

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