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National Indian Education Association Recommended K-12 Reading List

Books by Native Authors and/or with Native Main Characters

1514 P Street, NW Suite B Washington DC 20005 202-544-7290 www.niea.org The National Indian Education Association (NIEA) is pleased to present this list of books by Native authors and/or that feature a Native main character.

Please note that this list is not exhaustive and there many other fantastic authors and texts available but all books have been vetted by NIEA and support a culturally-competent curriculum.

If you would like to support NIEA’s Book Fund which provides books to Native students around Indian Country, we have placed many of the books in this listing on an Amazon Wish List, categorized by grades. You can find links to those book below.

Grades K through 4

Grades 5 through 8

Grades 9 and Up

Thank you and happy reading!

— Your Friends at NIEA Grades K Through 3

Antelope Woman: An Apache Drumbeat? Heartbeat: A Celebra- Folktale by Michael Lacapa (1992) tion of the Powwow by Susan Braine Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDer- (1995) mott (1974) Dzání Yází Naazbaa’: Little Woman Many Nations: An Alphabet book by Warrior Who Came Home by Joseph Bruchac (2004) Evangeline Parsons Yazzie (2005) Baby Rattlesnake by Te Ata. Illustrat- Earth Daughter: Alicia of Acoma ed by Lynn Moroney (1991) Pueblo by George Ancona (1995) Beauty Beside Me: Stories of My Enduring Wisdom by Virginia Driving Grandmother’s Skirts by S. Yazzie Hawk Sneave. Illustrated by Synthia (2011) St. James. (2003) Birdsong by Julie Flett (2019) Fry Bread: A Native American Fami- ly Story by Kevin Noble Maillard A Boy Called Slow: The True Story of (2019) by Joseph Bruchac (1994) Full Moon Stories by Eagle Walking Cradle Songs of Southeast Alaska Turtle (1997) (book and CD) illustrated by Crystal Worl (2019) The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble (1978) Crazy Horse's Vision by Joseph Bruchac. Illustrated by S.D. Nelson Giving Thanks: A Native American (2000) Good Morning Message by Jake Swamp and Erwin Printup (1995) Crossing Bok Chitto by Tim Tingle (2008) The Good Luck Cat by . Illustrated by Paul Lee (2000) Cowboy Up: Ride the Navajo Rodeo by Nancy Bo Flood (2013) Grandmother's Dreamcatcher by Becky Ray McCain (1998) The Boy Who Dreamed of an Acorn by Leigh Casler. Illustrated by Grandmother's Pigeon by Louise Er- Shonto Begay (1994) drich (1996) Dreamcatcher by Audrey Osofsky Ghost Dance by Alice McLerran (1992) (1995)

Dancing Teepees by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneave (1989) Grades K Through 3, cont.

How the Stars Fell into the Sky by Many Nations: An Alphabet of Na- Jerrie Oughton (2018) tive America by Joseph Bruchac. Illus- The Hogan that Great-Grandfather trated by Robert F. Goetzi (1996) Bilt by Nancy Bo Flood (2012) My Arctic 1,2,3 by Michael Kusagak. In my Mother’s House by Ann Nolan Illustrated by Vladyana Krykorka Clark (1991) (1996) Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Native American Stories by Joseph Smith. Illustrated by Cornelius Wright Bruchac (1991) (2000) Pig Boy: A Trickster Tale from Ha- Johnny’s Pheasant by Cheryl Minne- wai’i by Gerald McDermott (2009) ma (2019) Powwow by George Ancona (1993) Knots on a Counting Rope by John The Rough Face Girl by Rafe Martin & Archambault. Illustrated by Ted Rand David Shannon (1992) (1997) The Return of the Buffaloes: A The Legend of the White Buffalo Plains Indian Story about Famine Woman written and illustrated by and Renewal of the Earth written Paul Goble (1998) and illustrated by Paul Goble (1996) Less Than Half, More Than Whole by Saltypie: A Choctaw Journey from Kathleen LaCapa. Illustrated by Mi- Darkness into Light by Tim Tingle chael LaCapa (1994) (2010) Sing Down the Rain by Judi Moreil- Little Boy with Three Names: Sto- lon. Illustrated by Michael Chicago ries of the Taos Pueblo by Ann Nolan (1997). Clark (1999) This Land is My Land by George Lit- The Magic Hummingbird translat- tlechild. Children's Press (1993) ed by Ekkehart Malotki, narrated by Michael Lomatuway'Ma. Illustrated by What's the Most Beautiful Thing Michael Lacapa (1996) You Know About Horses? by Richard Van Camp. Illustrated by George Little- The Magic of Spider Woman by Lois child. Children's Book Press (1998). Duncan (2014) When the Rain Sings by the National Mama, Do You Love Me? by Barbara Museum of the American Indian M. Joose. Illustrated by Barbara La- (1999) Vallee. Chronicle Books (1998) Zinnia: How the Corn was Saved by A Man Called Raven by Richard Van Patricia Hruby Powell (2004) Camp. Illustrated by George Littlechild (1997) Grades 4 Through 5

The Birchbark House by . Harper (1999) Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story by SD Nelson (2012) Horse Raid: The Making of a Warrior by Paul Goble (2014) How I Became a Ghost and When a Ghost Talks, Listen by Tim Tingle (series 2015 & 2019) I Can Make this Promise by Christine Day (2019) In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall (2015) Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis and Traci Sorell (2019) My Heart is on the Ground: The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl by Ann Rinaldi (1999) Navajo Long Walk by Joseph Bruchac (2002) The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth Geroge Speare (1983) Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina by Maria Tallchief. Viking Press (1999). Thanku: Poems of Gratitude edited by Miranda Paul Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back by Joseph Bruchac & Jonathan London Grades 6 Through 8

Arctic Memories by Normee Ekoomiak Navajo: Visions and Voices Across the (1988) Mesa by Shonto Begay. Illustrated by Arrow Over the Door by Joseph Shonto Begay (1995) Bruchac (1998) Northern Lights: The Soccer Trails by Children of the Sun: Stories by and Michael Kusugak. Illustrated by Vladyana About Indian Kids by Beverly Hungry Krykorka (1993) Wolf (1998) The Path of the Quiet Elk by Virginia Code Talkers by Joseph Bruchac (2006) Stroud (1999) Did You Hear Wind Sing Your Name? Pushing Up the Sky by Joseph Bruchac An Oneida Song of Spring by Sandra (2000) DeCoteau (1995) Rain is Not My Indian Name by Cynthia Dancing Teepees: Poems of American Leitich Smith (2001) Indian Youth by Virginia Driving Hawk Soldier Sister, Fly Home by Nancy Bo Sneave (1988) Flood (2016) Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-Fenton, Soul Would Have No Rainbow If the Margaret Pokiak-Fenton (2010) Eyes Had No Tears and Other Native Four Seasons of Corn: A Winnebago American Proverbs by Guy A. Zona Tradition by Sally M. Hunter (1997) (1994) House Made of Dawn by N Scott Moma- Talking Leaves by Joseph Bruchac day (2010) (2016) House of Purple Cedar by Tim Tingle Trickster: Native American Tales, A (2014) Graphic Collection by Matt Demibicki (2010) Indian Shoes by Cynthia Leitich Smith (2002) The Ways of My Grandmothers Beverly Hungry Wolf (1998) An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People by Wonderful Sky Boat and Other Native Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz (2019) American Tales of the Southeast by Jane Louise Curry. Illustrated by James The Man to Send Rain Clouds by Leslie Watts (2001) Marmon Silko (short story) Great Native American Speeches by The Mighty Muskrat Mystery Series by Dover Thrift Publishers (2000) Michael Hutchinson Grades 9 and Up

After and Before the Lightening by Si- An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the mon Ortiz (1994) United States for Young People by Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daugh- Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz (2019) ter by (1993) The Joe Leaphorn Series by Tony Hiller- Brave Are My People by Frank Waters man (1989-2002) (1993) #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native Ceremony by (1977, American Women edited by Lisa 2006) Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale (2017) Encyclopedia of American Indian Civil Rights by James Stuart Olson (editor), Power by (1999) Mark Baxter (editor), Darren Pierson Pushing the Bear by (2009) (editor), and Jason M. Tetzloff (editor) The Round House by Louise Erdrich (1997) (2013) Food and Spirits by Beth Brant (1991) Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac (2001) Full Moon on the Reservation by Gloria Speaking for the Generations: Native Bird (1998) Writers on Writing by Simon Ortiz (1998) A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection of Standing Strong by Gary Robinson (2019) North American Indian Wom- en edited by Beth Brant (1989) The Woman Who Watches the World by Linda Hogan (2001) Ghost Dance: New and Selected Po- ems by Dorise Seale (2001) There There by Tommy Orange (2018) Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King (1993) Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers edited by Arnold Krupet (2001) House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Moma- day (1966)