Native American Heritage Month
Native American Heritage Month
November is National Native American Heritage Month. It's a time to recognize and celebrate the contributions of Indigenous Peoples, learn about the culture and diversity of Native communities, and acknowledge the present-day issues and struggles they continue to face. Check out our featured titles below, and search our catalog for more!
Adult Reads
- Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian's Journey Home By Chris La Tray
- Fire Exit: A Novel By Morgan Talty
- The Lost Journals of Sacajewea By Debra Magpie Earling
- Mother By m.s. RedCherries
- Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology Edited By Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
- Poet Warrior: A Memoir By Joy Harjo
- Probably Ruby: A Novel By Lisa Bird-Wilson
- Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America By Matika Wilbur
- The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History By Ned Blackhawk
- Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many By Mona Gable
- Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land By Noé Álvarez
- The Truth According to Ember By Danica Nava
- VenCo: A Novel By Cherie Dimaline
- Wandering Stars By Tommy Orange
- Whiskey Tender: A Memoir By Deborah Jackson Taffa
- Woman of Light: A Novel By Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Teen Reads
- Apple: Skin to the Core: A Memoir in Words and Pictures by Eric Gansworth
- The Art Thieves By Andrea Rogers
- Between the Pipes By Albert McLeod and Elaine Mordoch
- Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults By Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Burning Cold: An Inuit and Dene Comics Collection
- Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians but Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer
- An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People by Jean Mendoza
- A Constellation of Minor Bears by Jenny Ferguson
- Ouroboros 01: Godly Heathens By H.E. Edgmon
- Harvest House By Cynthia Leitich Smith
- Marrow Thieves Novel 02: Hunting By Stars By Cherie Dimaline
- Little Moons By Jen Storm
- Looking for Smoke By K.A. Cobell
- Native Women Changing Their Worlds By Patricia J. Cutright
- Sheine Lende By Darcie Little Badger
- The Unfinished By Cheryl Isaacs
Kid Reads
- Buffalo Dreamer By Violet Duncan
- Colonization and the Wampanoag Story By Linda Coombs
- Find Her By Ginger Reno
- The First Woman Cherokee Chief: Wilma Pearl Mankiller By Patricia Morris Buckley
- The Flicker By H.E. Edgmon
- The Good Game By Arihhonni David
- Jo Jo Makoons 03: Snow Day By Dawn Quigley
- Liam Kingbird's Kingdom: Liam and the Pigeon By Andrew Stark
- The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry By Anna Rose Johnson
- Native American Stories for Kids: 12 Traditional Stories from Indigenous Tribes Across North America By T.F. Pecore Weso
- On a Wing and a Tear By Cynthia Leitich Smith
- Red Bird Danced By Dawn Quigley
- The Ribbon Skirt: A Graphic Novel By Cameron Mukwa
- Sarah Ponakey, Storycatcher 01: Sarah Ponakey, Storycatcher, and Âhâsiw's Forest Powwow By Sita MacMillan
- Stealing Little Moon: The Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools By Dan C. Jones
- Thunderous By M. L. Smoker
Picture Books
- Being Home By Traci Sorell
- Can You Hear the Plants Speak? By Nicholas Hummingbird
- Chooch Helped By Andrea L. Rogers
- Clack, Clack! Smack!: A Cherokee Stickball Story By Traci Sorell
- Coming Home: A Hopi Resistance Story By Mavasta Honyouti
- A Family Tree By Staci Lola Drouillard
- Gluskonba and the Maple Trees By Joseph Bruchac
- I Am Osage: How Clarence Tinker Became the First Native American Major General By Kim Rogers
- Kindred Spirits: Shilombish Ittibachvffa By Leslie Stall Widener
- Loaf the Cat Goes to the Pow Wow By Nicholas DeShaw
- Sometimes I Feel Like an Oak By Danielle Daniel
- This Land By Ashley Fairbanks
- Waci! Dance! By Sage Speidel
- What's in a Bead? By Kelsey Borgford
- When the Stars Came Home By Brittany Luby
- When We Gather: A Cherokee Tribal Feast By Andrea L. Rogers
- Why We Dance: A Story of Hope and Healing By Deirdre Havrelock
- Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills By Billy Mills
Film and Television
- Alaskan Nets
- American Native
- Beans
- Broken Rainbow
- Dark Winds: Season 2
- Extraordinary Native American Men
- Extraordinary Native American Women
- The Ground Between Us
- Imprint
- Indian Horse
- Native America: Season 2
- Oyate
- Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
- Rutherford Falls: Season 1
- Scenes from a Glittering World
- The Sun At Midnight
- Te Ata
- Up Heartbreak Hill
- Warrior Spirit
- We Shall Remain
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