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Reader's Advisory: Native American and Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month

Learn about recent books to celebrate Native American and Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month. Books for teens and adults will be shared!

Teen Books:
Ahiahia the Orphan by Levi Illuitok (Inhabit Media Inc.), 
Bad Medicine by Christopher Twin (Emanata), 
A Constellation of Minor Bears by Jen Ferguson (Heartdrum), 
A Girl Called Echo: Omnibus by Katherena Vermette (HighWater Press), 
Godly Heathens by H.E. Edgmon (and sequel Merciless Saviors) (Wednesday Books), 
Hearts of Fire and Snow by David O. Bowles (Bloomsbury Children's Books), 
Indiginerds by Alina Pete (Iron Circus Comics), 
Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix by Cherie Dimaline (Feiwel and Friends), 
Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell (Heartdrum), 
The Prince and the Coyote by David Bowles (Levine Querido), 
Rez Ball by Byron Graves (Heartdrum), 
The Rez Doctor by Gitz Crazyboy (HighWater Press), 
Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido), 
This Indian Kid: a Native American Memoir by Eddie Chuculate (Scholastic Focus), 
The Unfinished by Cheryl Isaacs (Heartdrum), 
We Are the Medicine by Tasha Spillett (HighWater Press), 
Where Wolves Don't Die by Anton Treuer (Levine Querido).       

Adult books:
And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott (Dutton), 
The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press), 
Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian's Journey Home by Chris La Tray (Milkweed Editions), 
Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors by Greg Sarris (Heyday), 
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Catapult), 
Blood Sisters by Vanessa Lillie (Berkley), 
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle (Harper), 
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford (Scribner), 
The Cherokee Rose: a Novel of Gardens and Ghosts by Tiya Miles (Random House), 
Coexistence by Billy Ray Belcourt (W.W. Norton) (Digital book), 
Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine by Loretta Barrett Oden (University of Oklahoma Press), 
Earthdivers Vol. 1 [Kill Columbus] by Stephen Graham Jones (and Vol. 2) (IDW Publishing), 
Exposure by Ramona Emerson (Soho Crime), 
Fire Exit by Morgan Talty (Tin House), 
Indian Burial Ground by Nick Medina (Berkley), 
The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America by Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz (Flatiron Books), 
Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day by Kaitlin B. Curtice (Brazos Press), 
Lost Birds by Anne Hillerman (Harper), 
The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories by Stacie Shannon Denetsosie (Torrey House Press), 
Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice (William Morrow), 
Native Nations: a Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal (Random House), 
Never Whistle at Night: an Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk (Vintage Books), 
The Other Ones by Jamesie Fournier (Inhabit Media), 
Ruin Their Crops On the Ground: the Politics of Food in the United States, From the Trail of Tears to School Lunch by Andrea Freeman (Metropolitan Books), 
Sex, Lies, and Sensibility by Nikki Payne (Berkley Romance), 
The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives by Linda LeGarde Grover (University of Minnesota Press), 
Talking With Hands: Everything You Need to Start Signing Native American Hand Talk: a complete beginner's guide with over 200 words and phrases by Mike Pahsetopah (Wellfleet Press), 
Thunder Song by Sasha taqwšeblu LaPointe (Counterpoint), 
The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava (Berkley Romance), 
Unworthy Republic: the Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt (W.W. Norton), 
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange (Alfred A. Knopf), 
Where They Last Saw Her by Marcie R. Rendon (Random House), 
Whiskey Tender: a Memoir by Deborah Jackson Taffa (Harper).