Native American Heritage Month is a time of remembrance and celebration. We honor the rich history, culture, and future of the people that first called this land home. Native American Heritage Month reminds us that Native Americans have always been here, are still here, and will always be here. According to the 2023 US Census, there is an estimated 3.7 million Native Americans and Alaskan Natives currently living in the US. One great way to honor Native Americans is to read books from Native American authors that center Native American points of view. Below you will find a list of books for readers wishing to learn about and celebrate the beautiful and diverse cultures at the very heart of our home.
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Shane works with her mother and their ghost dogs, tracking down missing persons even when their families can’t afford to pay. Their own family was displaced from their traditional home years ago following a devastating flood and the loss of Shane’s father and her grandparents. They don’t think they’ll ever get their home back.
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With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family’s involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people’s inheritance.
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Author Eddie Chuculate recounts his experience growing up in rural Oklahoma, from boyhood to young manhood, in an evocative and vivid voice.
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Halloween is near, and Hughie Wolfe is volunteering at a new rural attraction–Harvest House. He’s excited to take part in the fun, spooky show until he learns that an actor playing the vengeful spirit of an Indian maiden–a ghost inspired by local legend–will headline.
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Seventeen-year-old Gem Echols hides their mental health challenges and mysterious dreams in the small town of Gracie, Georgia, but when a newcomer reveals a shocking claim of being reincarnated gods together, Gem’s life takes a perilous turn as they embark on a deadly adventure, where their past and present collide.
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Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period.
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Four teens on the Blackfeet Reservation find themselves the suspects of an investigation when a classmate is found murdered during the annual Indian Days celebrations.
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Teenage Ezra Cloud isn’t the biggest fan of living in Minneapolis while his father is working as a professor of their own language, Ojibwe, especially when one of the local bullies is always terrorizing him and his friends. But after a fight at school and a too-coincidental fire that burns down the bully’s home, Ezra is sent away to live with his grandfather in rural Canada during the investigation, his family knowing that the justice system won’t be on his side despite his innocence.
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Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi’s hockey team. yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything comes to light when Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, thrusting her into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug.
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Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She’s always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he’s been cast from home. He’s found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli’s best friend, will drive their worlds together in ways they haven’t been in centuries. And there are some who will kill to keep them apart.
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This middle-grade nonfiction book tells the riveting story of the 1969 takeover of Alcatraz by a group of 89 Native Americans, which inspired a whole generation of Native activists and ignited the modern American Indian Movement.
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Ziggy’s mother disappeared ten years ago, one of the many Native women who have mysteriously gone missing, and Ziggy believes a secret cave may hold the key–so with his sister, Moon, and friends Alice and Corso, he sets out to find the cave and solve the mystery of his family’s origins.
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