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Native Heritage Month: Literature

Native American Authors

Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Call Number: PZ7.1.B6784 Fir 2021 (Bird Library)
ISBN: 9781250766564
Publication Date: 2021-03-16
Tribe: Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
Call Number: PZ7.1 .B6784 War 2023 (Bird Library)
ISBN: 9781250766588
Publication Date: 2023-05-02
Tribe: Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa
That the People Might Live by Arnold Krupat
Call Number: PM157 .K78 2012
ISBN: 9780801451386
Publication Date: 2012-11-15
Mohawk Interruptus by Audra Simpson
Call Number: E99.M8 S56 2014
ISBN: 9780822356431
Publication Date: 2014-05-09
We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom; Michaela Goade (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7.L6623 We 2020 (Bird Library)
ISBN: 9781250203557
Publication Date: 2020-03-17
Tribe: Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe
Dog Flowers: A Memoir by Danielle Geller
Call Number: E99 .N3 G357 2021 (Bird Library)
ISBN: 9781984820396
Publication Date: 2021-01-12
Tribe: Navajo Nation
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Bird of the FBI by David Grann
Call Number: E99.O8 G675 2017 (Bird Library)
ISBN: 9780385534246
Publication Date: 2017-04-18
Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir by Deborah A. Miranda
Call Number: E78 .C15 M6 2013 (Bird Library)
ISBN: 9781597142014
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Tribe: Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of California
Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories, and Recipes from the Upper Midwest by Heid E. Erdrich
Call Number: E98 .F7 E735 2013 (Bird Library)
ISBN: 9780873518949
Publication Date: 2013-11-01
Tribe: Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe
New Poets of Native Nations by Heid E. Erdrich
Call Number: PS591.I55 N46 2018 (Bird Library)
ISBN: 9781555978099
Publication Date: 2018-07-10
Tribe: Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
Call Number: PR9199.4.J63642 B34 2023 (Bird Library)
ISBN: 9780385548694
Publication Date: 2023-01-10
Tribe: Cree
Thinking in Indian: A John Mohawk Reader by John C. Mohawk; José Barreiro
Call Number: E99.S3 M64 2010 (Bird Library)
ISBN: 9781555917388
Publication Date: 2010-10-01
Tribe: Seneca; Turtle Clan
Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Call Number: PS3606.A396 W66 2023 (Bird Library)
ISBN: 9780525511335
Publication Date: 2023-04-18
Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
Call Number: PZ7.1.G587 Gir 2020
ISBN: 9781101934746
Publication Date: 2018-04-10
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko; Larry McMurtry (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS3569.I44 C4 2006
ISBN: 9780143104919
Publication Date: 2006-12-26
Tribe: Laguna Pueblo Reservation
Probably Ruby by Lisa Bird-Wilson
Call Number: PR9199.4.B524 P76 2023 (Bird Library)
ISBN: 9780593448670
Publication Date: 2022-04-12
Tribe: Métis and nêhiyaw
Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America by Matika Wilbur
Call Number: E77.5 .W55 2023 (Bird Library)
ISBN: 9781984859525
Publication Date: 2023-04-25
Tribe: Tulalip; descendent of Swinomish people
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
Call Number: PR9199.4.G6645 F58 2020
ISBN: 9781443459181
Publication Date: 2020-04-14
Tribe: Red Pheasant Cree Nation
Living on the Land by Nathalie Kermoal (Editor); Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1453 .L58 2016
ISBN: 9781771990417
Publication Date: 2016-07-18
Tribe: Breton (Kermoal); Zapotec (Altamirano-Jiménez)
Home Front by Peter John Brownlee; Sarah Burns; Diane Dillon; Daniel Greene; Scott Manning Stevens
Call Number: N6510 .H57 2013
ISBN: 9780226061856
Publication Date: 2013-09-30
Tribe: Akwesasne Mohawk Nation (Manning Stevens)
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Call Number: E98.P5 K56 2013
ISBN: 9781571313355
Publication Date: 2013-10-15
Tribe: Potawatomi Nation
Faces from the Interior: The North American Portraits of Karl Bodmer by Scott Manning Stevens
ISBN: 9781735441641
Publication Date: 2021-04-01
Tribe: Akwesasne Mohawk Nation
The inconvenient Indian: a curious account of Native people in North America by Thomas King
Call Number: E77 .K563 2017
ISBN: 9780385690164
Publication Date: 2017
There There by Tommy Orange
Call Number: PS3615.R32 T48 2018 (Bird Library)
ISBN: 9780525436140
Publication Date: 2019-05-07
Tribe: Cheyenne and Arapaho
And Grandma Said: Iroquois Teachings, as Passed Down Through the Oral Tradition by Tom Porter
Call Number: E99.I7 P676 2008 (Bird Library)
ISBN: 9781436335652
Publication Date: 2008-07-09
Tribe: Mohawk

Hawaiian Native Authors

Broken Trust by Samuel P. King; Randall W. Roth
Call Number: KF228.K36 K56 2006
ISBN: 0824830148
Publication Date: 2006-03-01
Defiant Indigeneity by Stephanie Nohelani Teves
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781469640549
Publication Date: 2018-04-09
Detours by Hokulani K. Aikau (Editor); Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781478007203
Publication Date: 2019-11-08
Everything Ancient Was Once New by Emalani Case; Noelani Goodyear-Ka'ōpua (Series edited by); April K. Henderson (Series edited by)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780824888183
Publication Date: 2021-02-28
The Legend of La'ieikawai by Dietrich Varez
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0824828399
Publication Date: 2004-03-31
Life of the Land by Dana Naone Hall
Call Number: DU624.65 .H34 2017
ISBN: 9781883528447
Publication Date: 2017-09-30
Local Story by John P. Rosa
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780824839703
Publication Date: 2014-03-31
The Voices of Eden by Albert J. Schütz; Albert J. Schütz
Call Number: PL6441 .S38 1994
ISBN: 9780824816377
Publication Date: 1995-01-01
The World and All the Things upon It by David A. Chang
Call Number: G222 .C53 2016
ISBN: 9780816699414
Publication Date: 2016-06-01