Books for International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

By Coll Rowe | August 6 2024 | Sociology

In honor of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, which takes place on August 9th, we are sharing a book list on various Indigenous cultures that includes history, memoir, stories, and non-fiction.

Find a full collection of titles here.

A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation
9780525534686

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

A Millennium in North America
9780525511038
A sweeping history of the power of Indigenous North America from ancient cities to fights for sovereignty that continue today, from an award-winning historian.
$38.00 US
Apr 09, 2024
Hardcover
752 Pages
Random House

Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America
9780807003466
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

Native America from 1890 to the Present
9780399573194

A sweeping history—and counter-narrative—of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.

$20.00 US
Nov 05, 2019
Paperback
528 Pages
Riverhead Books

Changing the Way We See Native America
9781984859525
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

Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science
9781623176051

An 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


9780807011683
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.
$27.95 US
Nov 16, 2021
Hardcover
272 Pages
Beacon Press