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Delve into Native and Indigenous Communities, Cultures, and Histories

Broaden your knowledge about various tribes and the unique challenges Native and Indigenous communities face with these nonfiction titles.

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  • The Rediscovery of America

    Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

    Blackhawk, Ned,
    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.
    Book, 2023New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2023] — 970.00497 BLA
  • Dancing for Our Tribe

    Potawatomi Tradition in the New Millennium

    Hoogstraten, Sharon,
    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.
    Book, 2022Chicago, Illinois : Shikaakwa Press, 2022. — 970.00497316 HOO
  • 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…
    Book, 2023Washington : National Gallery of Art ; Princeton ; Oxford : In association with Princeton University Press, [2023] — 704.0397 SMI
  • By the Fire We Carry

    the Generations-long Fight for Justice on Native Land

    Nagle, Rebecca,
    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.…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — 323.1197 NAG
  • 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…
    Book, 2024Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2024. — 814.6 L3155.th
  • Braiding Sweetgrass

    Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

    Kimmerer, Robin Wall,
    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.
    Book, 2020Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2020. — 305.897 KIM ed.2
  • Ojibwe author Treuer revises and expands a book first published in 2012, seeking to answer questions both concrete and fundamental. Suggested by Andrew.
    Book, 2023Saint Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2023] — 970.00497 TRE rev.ed
  • Project 562

    Changing the Way We See Native America

    Wilbur, Matika,
    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…
    Book, 2023California ; New York : Ten Speed Press, [2023] — 970.00497 WIL
  • 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…
    Book, 2021New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021] — 818.54 H2824.po
  • Love After the End

    An Anthology of Two-spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

    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…
    Book, 2020Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2020] — 813.0876 LOV PBK
  • When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through

    a Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

    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,…
    Book, 2020New York, N. Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, [2020] — 811.008897 WHE PBK
  • Living Nations, Living Words

    An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

    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,…
    Book, 2021New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2021] — 811.0080897 LIV PBK
  • New Native Kitchen

    Celebrating Modern Recipes of the American Indian

    Bitsoie, Freddie,
    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…
    Book, 2021New York : Abrams, [2021] — 641.59297 BIT