Native American Heritage Month
Native American Heritage Month
November is National Native American Heritage Month. It's a time to recognize and celebrate the contributions of Indigenous Peoples, learn about the culture and diversity of Native communities, and acknowledge the present-day issues and struggles they continue to face. Check out our featured titles below, and search our catalog for more!
Adult Reads
- A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter
- Living Resistance : an indigenous vision for seeking wholeness every day by Kaitlin B. Curtice
- Project 562 : changing the way we see Native America by Matika Wilbur
- Birding While Indian by Thomas C. Gannon
- The Seven Circles: Indigenous Teachings for Living Well by Chelsey Luger
- Becoming Kin : an Indigenous call to unforgetting the past and reimagining our future by Patty Krawec
- The Last Campaign : Sherman, Geronimo, and the War for America by H.W. Brands
- Calling for a Blanket Dance: a novel by Oscar Hokeah
- Woman of Light : a novel by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
- Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's struggle for the destiny of a nation by Peter Stark
- Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
- Poet Warrior: a memoir by Joy Harjo
- We Had a Little Real Estate Problem by Kliph Nesteroff
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
- A Council of Dolls by Mona Susa Power
Teen Reads
- Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
- Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians but Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer
- This Indian Kid : a Native American memoir by Eddie Chuculate
- The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson
- Hunting by Stars by Cherie Dimaline
- Rez Ball by Byron Graves
- My Good Man by Eric Gansworth
- A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
- Four Faces of the Moon by Amanda Strong
- Walking in Two Worlds by Wab Kinew
- An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People by Jean Mendoza
- Killing the Wittigo: Indigenous Culture-Based Approaches to Waking Up, Taking Action, and Doing the Work of Healing by Suzanne Methot
Kid Reads
- We Still Belong by Christine Day
- Indigenous Ingenuity: a celebration of traditional North American knowledge by Deidre Havrelock
- The Star That Always Stays by Anna Rose Johnson
- The Storyteller by Brandon Hobson
- Two Tribes by Emily Bowen Cohen
- Eagle Drums by Nasug̊raq Rainey Hopson
- Mascot by Charles Waters
- Heroes of the Water Monster by Brian Young
- The Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls by James Bird
- Rez dog detective agency. 01 : The rez detectives by Steven Paul Judd
- Rabbit Chase by Elizabeth LaPensée
- Who Will Win? by Arihhonni David
Picture Books
- Finding My Dance by by Ria Thundercloud
- Rock Your Mocs by Laurel Goodluck
- Grandma's Tipi : a present-day Lakota story by S.D. Nelson
- Forever Our Home by Tonya Simpson
- A Letter for Bob by Kim Rogers
- Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior by Carole Lindstrom
- Remember by Joy Harjo
- Contenders : two Native baseball players, one World Series by Traci Sorell
- We Belong to the Drum by Sandra Lamouche
- Still This Love Goes On by Buffy Sainte-Marie
- My Powerful Hair by Carole Lindstrom
- Heart Berry Bling by Jenny Kay Dupuis
- Be a Good Ancestor by Gabrielle Prince
- Biindigen! : Amik says welcome by Nancy Cooper
- We All Play = Kimêtawânaw by Julie Flett
- Runs with the Stars by Darcy Whitecrow
