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• The Rediscovery of America

  Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

  Blackhawk, Ned,

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  A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. Suggested by Chris.

• Dancing for Our Tribe

  Potawatomi Tradition in the New Millennium

  Hoogstraten, Sharon,

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  With stunning photographs, engrossing text, and meticulous scholarship, you'll pore over this book and come back to it more than once. Suggested by Sharon.

• The Land Carries Our Ancestors

  Contemporary Art by Native Americans

  Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See, 1940-

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  A poem by Joy Harjo opens this coffee table-ready book created to accompany the National Gallery's landmark 2022 exhibition of pieces by living Native American artists using many different media. With statements by each of the 50 artists whose work…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• By the Fire We Carry

  the Generations-long Fight for Justice on Native Land

  Nagle, Rebecca,

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  The story of the Native Americans from the "Five Civilized Tribes" who were forcibly relocated to present-day Oklahoma beginning in the 1830s is also the story of the author's own Cherokee family. She draws a line from those events to Sharp v.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Thunder Song

  Essays

  LaPointe, Sasha taqwšeblu,

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  Music plays a crucial role in these pieces by the author of Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk. A beautifully written, powerful, and sensitive collection of essays that we can’t recommend enough. The author reflects on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Braiding Sweetgrass

  Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall,

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  Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrates how all living things―from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen―provide us with gifts and lessons every day. Suggested by Amber.

• Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask

  Treuer, Anton,

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  Ojibwe author Treuer revises and expands a book first published in 2012, seeking to answer questions both concrete and fundamental. Suggested by Andrew.

• Project 562

  Changing the Way We See Native America

  Wilbur, Matika,

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  Wilbur spent years photographing and interviewing hundreds of people from each of the federally recognized Native American tribes. "This book is too important to miss. It is a vast, sprawling look at who we are as indigenous people in these United…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Poet Warrior

  a Memoir

  Harjo, Joy,

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  In the second memoir from the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, Joy Harjo invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her “poet-warrior” road. A musical, kaleidoscopic meditation, this book…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love After the End

  An Anthology of Two-spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

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  In this groundbreaking and Lambda-Award-winning anthology, a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer) Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island draw from history and their own personal truths to create their own queer visions of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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

  a Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

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  Spanning 161 Native American writers and representing more than 90 indigenous nations, this anthology contains some of the most beautiful poetry you could come across. Although this collection focuses mostly on 20th century Native American poetry,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Living Nations, Living Words

  An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

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  This special and rich poetry anthology takes its title from an interactive online map of current Native poets, a project undertaken by U.S. Poet Laureate and Native American poet Joy Harjo. Each poem is "based on the theme of place and displacement,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• New Native Kitchen

  Celebrating Modern Recipes of the American Indian

  Bitsoie, Freddie,

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  As befits a former executive chef at the National Museum of the American Indian's renowned Mitsitam Native Foods Cafe, Freddie Bitsoie is attuned to both hyperlocality and the extraordinary vitality of Native American foodways in the 21st century. A…Read moreRead more of this annotation