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• As You Were

  a Memoir

  Tromblay, David,

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• Call Me Indian

  From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the NHL's First Treaty Indigenous Player

  Sasakamoose, Fred, 1933-2020,

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• An Indian Among Los Indígenas

  a Native Travel Memoir

  Pike, Ursula, 1968-

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• Crazy Horse

  the Lakota Warrior's Life & Legacy

  Matson, William B.

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• When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through

  A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

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• There There

  Orange, Tommy, 1982-

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  Everybody Reads 2020 celebrates this debut novel by Cheyenne and Arapaho author Tommy Orange. The story follows 12 urban Native Americans as they separately make their way to the big Oakland powwow, each for their own complex reasons.

• In the Night of Memory

  a Novel

  Grover, Linda LeGarde,

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  Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation. Linda LeGarde Grover is an Anishinaabe novelist and short story writer.

• Ceremony

  Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948-

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  Tayo, a World War II and POW, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation with PTSD. Instead of turning to alcohol and violence, he turns towards tradition in order to alleviate his despair. Leslie Marmon Silko is a Laguna Pueblo writer.

• Cherokee America

  Verble, Margaret,

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  From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a Cherokee author comes an epic novel that follows a web of complex family alliances and culture clashes in the Cherokee Nation during the aftermath of the Civil War and the unforgettable woman at its…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fools Crow

  Welch, James, 1940-2003

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  Blackfeet and A'aninin writer Welch sets this novel in Montana shortly after the Civil War. White Man's Dog (later known as Fools Crow), is a young Blackfeet Indian on the verge of manhood, and the invasion of white society.

• Split Tooth

  Tagaq, 1975-

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  This debut novel by Canadian Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq is based in part on her own personal journals. The book tells the story of a young Inuk woman growing up in the Canadian Arctic in the 1970s and blends fiction, memoir, poetry and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Under Nushagak Bluff

  a Novel

  Heavener, Mia, 1978-

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  This novel, set in an Alaskan fishing village in 1939, interweaves the importance of story and storytelling with the impact of cultural transition and change. The author is of Norwegian, Polish, and Yup’ik heritage.

• The Break

  Vermette, Katherena, 1977-

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  Told through the voices of 10 characters, this literary mystery explores the events around the rape of a teenager, and the fear that Indigenous women carry, whether they have experienced violence first-hand or not. Vermette is a Métis…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• House Made of Dawn

  Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-2024,

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  Kiowa writer Momaday won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969 when he released this novel. It tells the story of a young American Indian named Abel, home from a foreign war and caught between two worlds: one of nature and one of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Surviving the City

  Spillett, Tasha, 1988-

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  Miikwan is Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up in an urban landscape in this story about womanhood, friendship, colonialism, and the anguish of a missing loved one. Tasha Spillett is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• House of Purple Cedar

  Tingle, Tim,

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  Rose Goode, a Choctaw Indian girl living in pre-statehood Oklahoma, must endure a life plagued by white land-grabbers and the catastrophic events that come with them. This teen fiction was written by Choctaw writer Tim Tingle.

• The Turquoise Ledge

  [a Memoir]

  Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948-

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  Silko combines memoir with her observations of the natural world during her daily walks through the arroyos and ledges of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona.

• Heart Berries

  a Memoir

  Mailhot, Terese Marie,

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  A debut memoir from this writer who grew up in Seabird Island, British Columbia, on the Seabird Island First Nation reservation. This book follows Mailhot through her troubled childhood, early and tumultuous motherhood, and into her adult…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mamaskatch

  a Cree Coming of Age

  McLeod, Darrel J.,

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  As a small boy in remote Alberta, McLeod was immersed in his Cree family’s history and learns to be fiercely proud of his heritage. But after a series of tragic losses, his home becomes unstable in this unflinching memoir or how trauma…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crazy Brave

  a Memoir

  Harjo, Joy,

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  A memoir that describes the Mvskoke poet’s youth with an abusive stepfather, becoming a single teen mom, and how she struggled to finally find inner peace and her creative voice.