Indigenous Peoples BOOKS AND OTHER RESOURCES

F O R C H I L D R E N

At the Mountain’s Base by Tracy Sorell Bowwow Powwow : Bagosenjige-niimi'idim by Brenda J. Child Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker’s Story by Joseph Bruchac Encounter by Brittany Luby The Forever Sky by Thomas D. Peacock Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard Hiawatha and the Peacemaker by Robbie Robertson The Girl Who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales by Joseph Bruchac I Am Not a Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis In My Anaana’s Amautik by Nadia Sammurtok Johnny’s Pheasant by Cheryl Minnema My Heart Fills With Happiness by Monique Gray Smith Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-S a, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist by Gina Capaldi Squanto’s Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving by Joseph Bruchac Vivian and the Legend of the Hoodoos by Terry Catasus Jennings We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom When We Were Alone by David Robertson

F O R M I D D L E - G R A D E R E A D E R S

The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich Blue Birds by Caroline Starr Rose Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis Indian Shoes by Cynthia Leitich Smith An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People by Debbie Reese In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall Little Whale: A Story of the Last Tlingit War Canoe by Roy A. Peratrovich The Lost Ones by Michaela MacColl Mask That Sang by Susan Currie My Name Is Seepeetza by Shirley Sterling Indigenous Peoples BOOKS AND OTHER RESOURCES

M I D D L E - G R A D E C O N T ' D

Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac Two Roads by Joseph Bruchac Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team by Steve Sheinkin Written in Stone by Rosanne Parry

F O R T E E N S

Apple in the Middle by Dawn Quigley Dreaming in Indian Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith He Who Dreams by Melanie Florence The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline More Than Good Enough by Crissa-Jean Chappell #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women by Mary Beth Leatherdale Pemmican Wars by Katherena Vermette Standing Strong by Gary Robinson Surviving the City by Tasha Spillet Trickster: Native American Tales (A Graphic Collection) by Matt Dembicki

F O R A D U L T S

All The Real Indians Died Off: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans by Roxanne Dunbar- Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History by Paul Andrew Hutton Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America by Kerry A. Trask Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse The Book of the Little Axe by Lauren Francis-Sharma Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation by Michael Powell Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo Indigenous Peoples BOOKS AND OTHER RESOURCES

F O R A D U L T S C O N T ' D

Crooked Hallelujah by Kelly Jo Ford The Death of Sitting Bear by N. Scott Momaday Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land by N. Scott Momaday Even as We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz In the Night of Memory by Linda LeGarde Grover It All Falls Down by Sheena Kamal Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab by Steve Inskeep Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hämäläinen Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, edited by Joshua Whitehead Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich Marvel Voices: Indigenous Voices 1 A Mind Spread Out On the Ground by Alicia Elliott Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God by Kaitlin B. Curtice New Poets of Native Nations edited by Heid E. Erdrich The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham-Jones The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez Paying the Land by Joe Sacco Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz Quiet Until the Thaw by Alexandra Fuller Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band by Christian Staebler Religion and Culture in Native America by Suzanne Crawford O'Brien The Roundhouse by Louise Erdrich Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers A Sorrow in our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh by Allan W. Eckert Spirit Run: a 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land by Noé Alvarez There There by Tommy Orange Indigenous Peoples BOOKS AND OTHER RESOURCES

F O R A D U L T S C O N T ' D

This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman This Town Sleeps by Dennis E. Staples Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through edited by Joy Harjo Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson Why We Serve: Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces by Alexandra N. Harris Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch

P O D C A S T S

All My Relations Coffee & Quaq Let’s Talk Native Native Opinion This Land

M O V I E S

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner Reel Injun Skins Warrior Women We Shall Remain; A five-part PBS documentary that was part of the American Experience series (available on hoopla) Winter in the Blood Indigenous Peoples BOOKS AND OTHER RESOURCES

O N L I N E R E S O U R C E S

Amnesty International: https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/indigenous-peoples/ Indigenous Peoples Movement: https://indigenouspeoplesmovement.com/ Library of Congress's "Living Nations, Living Worlds" project, from Joy Harjo: https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate- projects/living-nations-living-words/ Native American Heritage Month official website: http://nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov/? &loclr=reclnk Smithsonian Magazine: “Rethinking How We Celebrate American History—Indigenous Peoples’ Day” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american- indian/2020/10/12/indigenous-peoples-day-updated2020/ UNESCO: https://en.unesco.org/indigenous-peoples USAID: https://www.usaid.gov/indigenous-peoples

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