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:

The Art Thieves by Andrea L. Rogers (Levine Querido)
Between the Pipes by Albert McLeod (HighWater Press)
Legendary Frybread Drive-in: Intertribal Stories edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Heartdrum)
Little Moons by Jen Storm (HighWater Press)
The Others by Cheryl Isaacs (Heartdrum)
Ours to Tell: Reclaiming Indigenous Stories by Eldon Yellowhorn (Annick Press)
Sisters In the Wind by Angeline Boulley (Henry Holt and Company)
Zintka!: Lost Bird of Wounded Knee -- Zintk̀la Nuni : a true story of "found and lost" ... and found again by Brad Colerick (Deep Magic Song & Drawing Co.)

Adult:

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays (Beacon Press)
Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds by Patty Krawec (Broadleaf Books)
Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms edited by Stacie Shannon Denetsosie (Torrey House Press)
Big Chief by Jon Hickey (Simon & Schuster)
Broken Fields by Marcie R. Rendon (Soho Crime)
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press)
The Devil Is a Southpaw by Brandon Hobson (Ecco Press)
The El by Theodore C. Van Alst (Vintage Books)
Hole In the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson (Doubleday)
If the Dead Belong Here by Carson Faust (Viking)
Killer on the Road; The Babysitter Lives by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press)
The Last Stand of the Raven Clan: a story of imperial ambition, native resistance and how the Tlingit-Russian War shaped a continent by Gerald Easter and Mara Voorhees (Pegasus Books)
Love Is a War Song by Danica Nava (Berkley Romance)
Making Love With the Land by Joshua Whitehead (University of Minnesota Press)
Mask of the Deer Woman by Laurie L. Dove (Berkley)
Medicine River: a Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools by Mary Annette Pember (Pantheon Books)
Medicine Wheel for the Planet: a Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing by Dr. Jennifer Grenz (University of Minnesota Press)
Mother by m. s. RedCherries (Penguin Books)
My Life: Growing Up Native in America edited by IllumiNative (MTV Entertainment Books)
Native America: the Story of the First Peoples by Kenneth L. Feder (Princeton University Press)
Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity by Joseph Lee (One Signal Publishers)
Old School Indian by Aaron John Curtis (Hillman Grad Books)
Original Sins: the (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism by Eve L. Ewing (One World)
Over and Back by S. E. Martin (Apostrophe H)
The Paranormal Ranger: a Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained by Stanley Milford Jr. (William Morrow)
Passing Through a Prairie Country by Dennis E. Staples (Counterpoint)
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: a graphic interpretation by Paul Peart-Smith (Beacon Press)
Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America by Michael John Witgen (University of North Carolina Press)
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Scribner)
Shadow of the Solstice by Anne Hillerman (HarperCollins)
Small Ceremonies by Kyle Edwards (Pantheon Books)
To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage (Avid Reader Press)
To Save the Man by John Sayles (Melville House)
Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma: and other prose poems by Sy Hoahwah (University of New Mexico Press)
Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America by Sean Sherman (Clarkson Potter Publishers)
Waiting for the Long Night Moon by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
Washing My Mother's Body: a Ceremony for Grief by Joy Harjo (Ten Speed)
Washita Love Child: the Rise of Indigenous Rock Star Jesse Ed Davis by Douglas K. Miller (Liveright Publishing Corporation)
The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life by Amy Bowers Cordalis (Little, Brown and Company)
We Can't Save You: a Tale of Politics, Murder, and Maine by Thomas E. Ricks (Pegasus Crime)
We Survived the Night by Julian Brave Noisecat (Alfred A. Knopf)
What Side Are You On?: a Tohono O'odham Life Across Borders by Michael Steven Wilson (The University of North Carolina Press)
When Stars Have Teeth by Dani Trujillo (Dani Trujillo)* note: self-published digital book
The Whistler by Nick Medina (Berkley)
Who Gets to Be Indian?: Ethnic Fraud, Disenrollment, and Other Difficult Conversations about Native American Identity by Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Beacon Press)
The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution by Keith Richotte (Stanford University Press)