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Native American Heritage Month: Books

Resources in celebration of the history and culture of the indigenous communities and tribal nations of America. More resources at nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov

Nonfiction

All the Real Indians Died Off and 20 Other Myths about Native Americans

A Generation Removed: The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery

Lakota Woman

Lenape Country: Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn

Rights Remembered: A Salish Grandmother Speaks on American Indian History and the Future

Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America

Lies My Teacher Told Me: everything your American history textbook got wrong

A Place to Be Navajo: Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling

Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing of Native Americans at the end of the twentieth century

American Indians in the Early West

Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England

Soul Talk, Song Language: Conversations with Joy Harjo

Broken Landscape: Indians, Indian Tribes, and the Constitution

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: an Indian History of the American West

Coyote Warrior: one man, three tribes, and the trial that forged a nation

Dancing at Halftime: sports and the controversy over American Indian mascots

Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians but Were Afraid to Ask

The Other Movement: Indian Rights and Civil Rights in the Deep South

Imagic Moments: Indigenous North American Film

Indians and the American West in the Twentieth Century

Native American Voices

Power and Place: Indian Education in America

The American Indian Mind in a Linear World

The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century

The Legacy of Conquest: the unbroken past of the American West

The White Man's Indian: images of the American Indian from Columbus to the present

To Show What an Indian Can Do: Sports at Native American Boarding Schools

Treaties and Treachery: the Northwest Indians' Resistance to Conquest.

Unlearning the Language of Conquest: Scholars Expose Anti-Indianism in America

Fiction

There There

The Round House

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House Made of Dawn

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A snake falls to Earth 

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Fools Crow

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Ceremony

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Talking Leaves

The Voice of the Turtle: American Indian Literature, 1900-1970

Storyteller

LaRose: a novel

Poetry

Original Fire: Selected and New Poems

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An American Sunrise 

In Mad Love and War

Harper's Anthology of Twentieth Century Native American Poetry

Soul Talk, Song Language: conversations with Joy Harjo

A Map to the Next World: Poetry and Tales

The Feathered Heart

Shedding Skins

The Summer of Black Widows

When My Brother Was an Aztec

Children's Literature

We Are Water Protectors

Jingle Dancer

My Heart Fills with Happiness

The Birchbark House

Giving Thanks: a Native American good morning message

Sitting Bull Remembers

The Education of Little Tree

Code Talker: a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two

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