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A selection of new and forthcoming Indigenous Collection titles, from the collection's selector

Multnomah County Library’s Indigenous Collection provides materials by and about Native American, Alaska Native, Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) and Indigenous Peoples worldwide with a special focus on Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Indigenous Collection materials can be found at all MCL locations. Here you'll find a selection of new and forthcoming titles added to the Indigenous Collection, for all ages, updated regularly.

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  • Lamp Back

    Plays and Other Grievances

    Hudson, Anthony
    Lamp Back collects nearly a decade of work by Anthony Hudson (Grand Ronde, Siletz), a queer Indigenous artist and agitator also known as Portland, Oregon’s premier drag clown, Carla Rossi. Whether fumbling with a lamp in a satirical takedown of land…
    Book, 2026Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2026. — 305.897 H8851L 2026
  • From bestselling author Danica Nava (Chickasaw) comes a new romantic comedy! June Walker, city gal and tech industry extraordinaire, hits her breaking point and impulsively decides to purchase the once-marvelous Sunshine Farm in Love County,…
    Book, 2026New York : Berkley Romance, 2026. — FICTION NAVA 2026
  • A talented yet cynical Indigenous teen hockey player escapes a dangerous situation in the foster care system in this powerful and timely YA novel by Kirk Van Brunt (Colville).
    Book, 2026Toronto : Swift Water Books, 2026. — y VANBRUNT 2026
  • Cora and her family are Cherokee. She enjoys participating in Cherokee traditions with her family. She especially loves dancing in the children's Native American dance group. But when Cora has to dance in front of her whole school, she feels…
    Book, 2026New York : Random House, [2026] — Blue Reader FRASER 2026
  • Female Indigenous Heroes

    51 North American Women From the 1800s to Today

    Phillips, Katrina M.,
    This collection of biographies for kids explores the lives of North American Indigenous women from different backgrounds, different life experiences, and different eras who achieved amazing things in art, science, medicine, sports, and more. Learn…
    Book, 2026Naperville, Illinois : Callisto Publishing LLC, [2026] — j 305.48897 P5617f 2026
  • Ts'uyeb's striking directorial debut tells the story of three Tsotil women: the filmmaker herself, her mother, and her aunt, all of whom have lost loved ones, including young infants, to patriarchal violence. The arrival of the Zapatista movement,…
    DVD, 2026[United States] : EPF Media, [2026] — DVD 972.75004 I
  • Self-titled album by Indigenous sludge and doom metal band Medicine Horse from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Lyrics touch on strength and resiliency of Indigenous culture, folklore, and storytelling.
    Music CD, 2023[United States] : Horton Records, [2023] — CD Popular MEDICINEH
  • In this meditative, expansive debut poetry collection, Beth Piatote (Nez Perce) reveals language as a shared vibration, a life force that sustains an intimate, animate world. Anchored in the Nez Perce homelands of the Northwest, the poems in distant…
    Book, 2026Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2026. — 811.6 P582d 2026
  • Drawing from the Greening's (Ts'msyen from Lax Kw'alaams of the Gispaxlo'ots Tribe) lived experiences practicing a land-based lifestyle, as well as their backgrounds in Indigenous food sovereignty, health and well-being, and cultural research, Gyetk…
    Book, 20260922Wellfleet Press 20260922
  • In Jones' (Blackfeet) new novel, we return to the world of The Only Good Indians. A ragtag group of activists, including survivors of the previous novel's massacre, plan a mission to repatriate the bones of a Blackfeet boy who was sent to the…
    Book, 20261013S&s/Saga Press 20261013
  • The first book in a richly epic fantasy series for teens from a unique new voice with a powerful point of view. Readers will be drawn to its young characters' survival and resilience in a world struggling to maintain balance with nature in the wake…
    Book, 2026Toronto : Second Story Press, 2026. — y MEAWASIGE 2026
  • From bestselling author of Here Come the Aunties, Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee Nation), is a heartwarming and exuberant book honoring the blessings of every grandmother in a child's life. Whether a grandma is mom's mom or dad's mom, a…
    Book, 20260908Heartdrum 20260908
  • Explore how the Lingít thrive in Alaska and along the North American Pacific coast by honoring their language, preserving traditional ways of life, and gathering for celebrations. Lingít author X̱’unei Lance Twitchell introduces readers to the past,…
    Book, 20260801Capstone Press 20260801
  • Written by Tenning (Stz’uminus First Nation) and illustrated by thirteen Indigenous artists, this picture book contains powerful affirmations and artwork by a different illustrator on each page, and celebrates the diversity of Indigenous identity by…
    Book, 2026Victoria, British Columbia : Orca Book Publishers, 2026. — j Facts 305.89707 T311i 2026
  • War for the Woods follows a new generation's campaign to protect Vancouver Island's old growth forests against logging that once again has captured the attention of Canadians.
    DVD, 2023Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, [2023] — DVD 333.7516 WAR
  • The songs on A Light in the Attic represent the sparks of an emboldening journey. Staats (Mohawk singer-songwriter) sings of reconciliation, of recovery from addiction, of surviving intergenerational trauma, and of convalescence after heartbreak.
    Music CD,
  • You Are On Native Land collects stories and art donated by some of comics' biggest Indigenous creators such as Jon Proudstar (Pascua Yaqui), Maria Wolf (Purépecha/Tarascan), and Steph Littlebird (Kalapuya, Chinook, Grand Ronde). Tales of Native…
    Graphic Novel, 20260915Mad Cave Studios 20260915
  • Alongside personal accounts of the deterioration of salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest and the loss of Indigenous history, the twelve essays in this collection emphasize the necessity of community to overcome the damage done by human…
    Book, 2025Shoreline/Seattle, Washington : Raven Chronicles Press, [2025] — 304.28 P9493p 2025
  • One hundred and thirty-two years after "The White Seal" first appeared in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894), this retelling lends it a long-overdue Indigenous perspective. It recharacterizes the fur seals and the Unangan not as mortal…
    Book, 2026Fairbanks : Alaska Native Language Center ; Denver : University Press of Colorado, [2026] — y PLETNIKOF 2026
  • An alphabetical introduction to the rich history of Native peoples across the USA. Letter by letter, award-winning author Traci Sorell (Cherokee) offers terms that speak to both the vast diversity among Native Nations and the many connections they…
    Book, 2026New York : Workman Publishing, [2026] — j 970.00497 S7133i 2026