Books for Native American Heritage Month
By Coll Rowe | October 5 2023 | LiteratureHistoryNative American
The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
978-0-307-74248-3
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
$17.00 US
Apr 03, 2018
Paperback
416 Pages
Vintage
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Race and Gender Studies > Native American and Indigenous History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > U.S. History > Native American
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Sociology > Criminal Justice > Introduction to Criminology
- Professional Studies > Criminal Justice > Criminology
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Native America from 1890 to the Present
978-0-399-57319-4
"Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another." - NPRA New York Times bestseller: The sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.
$18.00 US
Nov 05, 2019
Paperback
528 Pages
Riverhead Books
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Anthropology > Cultural and Social Anthropology > Political Anthropology
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Anthropology > Peoples and Cultures > Peoples and Cultures of the Americas
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Period History: U.S. > America in the 20th Century (1900-1945)
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Period History: U.S. > America in the 20th Century (1945-2000)
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Period History: U.S. > Civil Rights Movement (1940-1968)
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Race and Gender Studies > Native American and Indigenous History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > U.S. History > Native American
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Social Science > American Studies
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Changing the Way We See Native America
978-1-9848-5952-5
A photographic and narrative celebration of contemporary Native American life and cultures, alongside an in-depth examination of issues that Native people face, by celebrated photographer and storyteller Matika Wilbur of the Swinomish and Tulalip Tribes.
$50.00 US
Apr 25, 2023
Hardcover
416 Pages
Ten Speed Press
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Anthropology > Peoples and Cultures > Peoples and Cultures of the Americas
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Art > Studio Art: Photography > Photojournalism
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Race and Gender Studies > Native American and Indigenous History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > U.S. History > Native American
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Studies
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978-0-8070-0699-3
The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America
$18.95 US
Nov 15, 2022
Paperback
272 Pages
Beacon Press
978-0-525-43614-0
National Bestseller
$17.00 US
May 07, 2019
Paperback
304 Pages
Vintage
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Native American Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – 21st Century
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – Native American and Indigenous
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Literature and Drama
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Student Success and Career Development > Student Success > First-Year Experience
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978-1-9848-5421-6
A groundbreaking Lakota author and activist chronicles her refusal to assimilate into 19th century white society and her mission to preserve her culture.
$15.00 US
May 21, 2019
Paperback
160 Pages
Modern Library
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature > Literature by Women
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Native American Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Native American Memoir
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Native American Non-Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Native American Poetry
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – Native American and Indigenous
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > Women and Literature
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Race and Gender Studies > Native American and Indigenous History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > U.S. History > Native American
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Literature and Drama
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Women and Literature
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A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation
978-0-525-53468-6
Now in paperback, the moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, but also the greater, unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations.
$18.00 US
Jun 29, 2021
Paperback
272 Pages
Blue Rider Press
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Native American Non-Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > U.S. History > Native American
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Social Science > American Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Sociology > Race / Class / Gender > Race Relations
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Sociology > Race / Class / Gender > Social Stratification
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Institutions > Sociology of Sport
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A Lyric Essay
978-1-66260-163-7
A Michelle Obama Reach Higher Fall 2022 reading list pickA Library Journal "BEST BOOK OF 2022""Aguon’s book is for everyone, but he challenges history by placing indigenous consciousness at the center of his project . . . the most tender polemic I’ve ever read." —Lenika Cruz, The Atlantic "It's clear [Aguon] poured his whole heart into this slim book . . . [his] sense of hope, fierce determination, and love for his people and culture permeates every page."—Laura Sackton, BookRiot
$23.00 US
Sep 13, 2022
Hardcover
128 Pages
Astra House
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Native American Memoir
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Native American Non-Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Native American Poetry
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Studies
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A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
978-1-9848-2120-1
A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an Indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author’s encounters with gun violence.
$18.00 US
Sep 21, 2021
Paperback
304 Pages
Ballantine Books
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Native American Memoir
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – Native American and Indigenous
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – Non-Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Literature and Drama
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Sociology > Race / Class / Gender > Race Relations
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Problems > Violence and Abuse
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Student Success and Career Development > Student Success > First-Year Experience
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How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
978-1-5247-4926-2
A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492
$32.50 US
Jan 24, 2023
Hardcover
320 Pages
Knopf
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Period History: Western Europe (Continental) > Renaissance and Reformation
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Period History: Western Europe (Continental) > Specialized Courses
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Race and Gender Studies > Native American and Indigenous History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Studies
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A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
978-0-593-32960-3
A landmark work of Black and Native American history that reconfigures our understanding of identity, race, and belonging and the inspiring ways marginalized people have pushed to redefine their world.
$18.00 US
Jun 06, 2023
Paperback
272 Pages
Riverhead Books
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Period History: U.S. > America in the 19th Century
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Period History: U.S. > Civil War and Reconstruction (1854-1876)
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Race and Gender Studies > Native American and Indigenous History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > U.S. History > African American
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > U.S. History > Native American
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > African American History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > African American Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Social Science > American Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Student Success and Career Development > Student Success > First-Year Experience
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Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America
978-0-8070-0346-6
A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations.
$29.95 US
Apr 26, 2022
Hardcover
368 Pages
Beacon Press
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Race and Gender Studies > Native American and Indigenous History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Topical History > History of Gender and Sexuality
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > U.S. History > Native American
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Family Studies and Human Development > Human Sexuality
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Introduction to Gender Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Race, Class, and Gender
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Sociology > Race / Class / Gender > Human Sexuality
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A Memoir, an Archive
978-1-9848-2041-9
A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother’s life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family’s troubled history.
$17.00 US
Apr 12, 2022
Paperback
272 Pages
One World
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Native American Memoir
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – Non-Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Literature and Drama
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Sociology > Family > Sociology of Family
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Sociology > Race / Class / Gender > Race Relations
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A Novel
978-0-385-54869-4
In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.
$27.00 US
Jan 10, 2023
Hardcover
272 Pages
Doubleday
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Native American Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – Native American and Indigenous
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Literature and Drama
Native America from 1890 to the Present
978-0-399-57319-4
"Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another." - NPRA New York Times bestseller: The sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.
$18.00 US
Nov 05, 2019
Paperback
528 Pages
Riverhead Books
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Anthropology > Cultural and Social Anthropology > Political Anthropology
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Anthropology > Peoples and Cultures > Peoples and Cultures of the Americas
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Period History: U.S. > America in the 20th Century (1900-1945)
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Period History: U.S. > America in the 20th Century (1945-2000)
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Period History: U.S. > Civil Rights Movement (1940-1968)
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Race and Gender Studies > Native American and Indigenous History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > U.S. History > Native American
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Social Science > American Studies
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Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science
978-1-62317-605-1
A 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & TechnologyAn Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors.
$17.95 US
Jan 18, 2022
Paperback
256 Pages
North Atlantic Books
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Latin American Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Studies
- Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics > Environmental Science > Environmental Conservation
- Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics > Environmental Science > Environmental Ethics
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A Novel
978-0-525-51133-5
A “dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical” (Roxane Gay) epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina
$18.00 US
Apr 18, 2023
Paperback
352 Pages
One World
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature > Literature by Women
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature > Westerns
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature > Women in Literature
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Latino/a and Chicano/a Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Native American Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – 21st Century
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – Latino American
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – Native American and Indigenous
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Latin American Literature and Drama
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Literature and Drama
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A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
978-1-64622-053-3
In this New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, the son of working-class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American marathon from Canada to Guatemala in this “stunning memoir that moves to the rhythm of feet, labor, and the many landscapes of the Americas” (Catriona Menzies-Pike, author of The Long Run).
$16.95 US
Mar 02, 2021
Paperback
240 Pages
Catapult
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Latino/a and Chicano/a Memoir
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Latino/a and Chicano/a Non-Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Native American Non-Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Studies
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978-1-61219-866-8
A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from an award-winning Haudenosaunee writer
$19.99 US
Aug 04, 2020
Paperback
256 Pages
Melville House
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Native American Memoir
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Native American Non-Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: Commonwealth Nations > Canadian
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – Native American and Indigenous
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Race and Gender Studies > Native American and Indigenous History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Regional History: World History > Canada
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Canadian Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Student Success and Career Development > Student Success > First-Year Experience
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A Memoir
978-1-64009-160-3
A powerful, poetic memoir of an Indigenous woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Band in the Pacific Northwest—this New York Times bestseller and Emma Watson Book Club pick is “an illuminating account of grief, abuse and the complex nature of the Native experience . . . at once raw and achingly beautiful (NPR).
$16.95 US
Apr 09, 2019
Paperback
160 Pages
Counterpoint
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Anthropology > Peoples and Cultures > Peoples and Cultures of the Americas
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Native American Memoir
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Native American Non-Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Native American and Indigenous Studies
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